The Toronto Star reports that local police are investigating complaints that executives at the NHL Players Association accessed and in some cases blocked the email accounts of players who have challenged the hiring of the union's executive director. For the past two weeks, police have been looking into whether the […]
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The Effects of Notice and Takedown
I recently posted about the effectiveness of Canada's notice and notice system. Today comes news from Australia that highlights the dangers of the notice and takedown system, where the country's mining industry has used the system to close an anti-mining website launched by a small protest group.
Should the Vancouver Olympic Organizers Own “Winter”?
With the 2010 Winter Olympic Games scheduled for Vancouver, the Canadian Olympic Committee has set the goal of "owning the podium." Today the Olympic Committee took the first step toward another form of ownership – language. Industry Minister Maxime Bernier introduced Bill C-47, the Olympic and Paralympic Marks Act, legislation that provides the Vancouver Olympic organizers with remarkable power over the language and symbols associated with the Olympics. The legislation is supposedly intended to deal with ambush marketing, which are attempts by businesses to associate themselves with the Olympics without becoming official sponsors. Similar legislation has been introduced in other countries that have hosted the Olympics, though there are questions about the effectiveness of the approach.
While it is understandable that the Olympic organizers want to maximize the marketing potential of the games, the bill raises several concerns.
Crogs
Crogs, or carefully-researched weblogs, is just one of things you learn about in this terrific article in the Columbia Journalism Review on the race in U.S. newsrooms to adapt to the Internet. It would be great to see something on the Canadian scene as my sense is that the changes […]
The State of the TV and Film Industry in Canada
The CFTPA and Canadian Heritage have released their annual report [PDF] on the state of the industry. The report contains detailed analysis of film and tv production in Canada without (refreshingly) a single complaint about copyright. Interestingly, rather than discussing camcording, the report identifies a different problem with the Canadian […]