Billboard has a good article that surveys the move toward DRM-free music from online commercial services. The article supports the view that it is matter of when, not if.
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Public Domain Day 2007
Wallace is back with his annual Public Domain Day posting which lists dozens of authors, politicians, and other notable people whose work entered into the public domain on January 1st. The posting also highlights some of the differences in copyright term between Canada, the U.S., and the U.K.
2006 Canadian Law Blog Awards
Many thanks to Steve Matthews for naming this blog the Best Canadian Law Blog of 2006. As Steve's list demonstrates, there are many exceptional Canadian law blogs, so it is nice to be included in that company. The posting also got me thinking of this past year – with Bulte, […]
AT&T Agrees to Net Neutrality Conditions
Harold Feld (and then the MSM) notes that AT&T has agreed to a series of new conditions in order to obtain approval for its proposed merger with BellSouth. Of greatest interest is the fact that the conditions include some very explicit net neutrality conditions: AT&T/BellSouth also commits that it will […]
Stiglitz on IP
Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on IP and a proposal for a different approach to incentivize pharmaceutical research.
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