Post Tagged with: "bulte"

Business As Usual

Kudos to the Hollywood Reporter for jumping in this morning and covering (brief display) the Bulte story with an enlightening piece that includes comments from Douglas Frith of the CMPDA (movies) and Graham Henderson of CRIA.  Leaving aside Frith's bizarre comment that on copyright "Canada is beginning to look like […]

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January 4, 2006 Comments are Disabled News

Campaign Contributions

I am a law professor, not an investigative reporter or a political operative, so the notion of campaign contributions is foreign to me.  I've been posting on the planned Sam Bulte fundraiser being hosted by the heads of the major entertainment industry associations just four days before the election (Tipping […]

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January 3, 2006 7 comments News

Tipping Point

If the amount of blog discussion and private email that I am receiving is any indication, the story about the Sarmite Bulte fundraiser hosted by the leaders of CRIA et al is at a tipping point with the potential to crack into the mainstream political press.  There is coverage today […]

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January 2, 2006 3 comments News

The Benefits of Copyright Reform

One of the responses to my post on the latest CRIA poll warns against referring to "copyright reform" just because Graham Henderson does in the CRIA release.  While I obviously do not support Henderson' s view of changes to Canadian copyright law nor the efforts to prop up Sam Bulte […]

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December 28, 2005 3 comments News

That’s What Friends Are For

In May 2004, the Canadian Heritage Standing Committee released what is now widely described as the "Bulte Report", a remarkably one-sided report on the future of Canadian copyright.  The report addressed WIPO, ISP, and education issues, siding in every instance with the views of rights holders such as the Canadian […]

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December 22, 2005 6 comments News