The Canadian copyright lobby, including CAAST, CRIA, CMPDA, and several others, have issued a release congratulating the government on the G-8 statement on intellectual property issues. The release (which I can't find online) says that the associations support the statement and look "forward to the Canadian government fulfilling these commitments […]
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Privacy Commissioner Issues PIPEDA Review Discussion Paper
The much-anticipated PIPEDA review is scheduled for later this year and the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has kicked things off with a discussion/consultation paper. The Commissioner’s comments on the effectiveness of the law will be very important and this paper is presumably an attempt to gauge public opinion on several […]
The Mentos Video
My weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, BBC version, homepage version) examines the enormous success of a video mixing Diet Coke and Mentos (which through a quirk of chemistry, sparks an immediate chemical reaction – a beverage geyser spurting several metres into the sky). Released for free on […]
Dutch Appeals Court Refuses to Disclose File Sharers Identities
When CRIA lost its file sharing lawsuits against 29 alleged file sharers in 2004, it immediately characterized Canadian law as out-of-step with the rest of the world and dismissed the privacy-related concerns that arose from the case. Two years later, The Register brings word that the Netherlands appears to be […]
The Pig and the Box
In a direct response to Access Copyright's Captain Copyright, a Victoria writer and artist has produced The Pig and the Box, a short children's story designed to foster the values of sharing. Indeed, the work is available under a Creative Commons licensed and the author advises that it has already […]
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