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Copyrighting Science

I’ve been remiss in posting links to of my two recent works on copyright reform.  Last spring I wrote a report on copyright reform and scientific research for the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee.  The government has now posted Copyrighting Science: Canadian Copyright Reform and the Future of Scientific Research.  The […]

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March 24, 2006 Comments are Disabled News, Scholarship

Time To Clean Up Canadian Copyright

While there has been great interest in the Bulte story for the past two weeks (which continues with Cory Doctorow's terrific op-ed yesterday on the dangers of U.S. style copyright reform in the Toronto Star, Rob Hyndman's great post on the impact of blogs, and the Globe's Matthew Ingram), I […]

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January 15, 2006 3 comments Columns

The Political Parties on Copyright

Not to be overlooked by the Bulte issue is the fact that the major parties have provided some feedback into their views on copyright (many individual candidates have as well – those are posted at Digital-Copyright.ca).  The Canadian Teachers Federation obtained responses from all parties on the education issue and […]

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January 11, 2006 2 comments News

Cause or Effect

With the Bulte story now a week old (I actually blogged about it nearly three weeks ago but it started to pick up steam on new years day), one might think that there is little else to say.  I think there is more because this incident is as much about […]

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January 9, 2006 3 comments News

Sony Settlement a Blueprint for Legislative Action

Following on my earlier posting, my Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, freely available version) advances my thoughts on how the Sony rootkit settlement could create the starting point for a model statute that protects against the misuse of TPMs. The column repeats my overview of the settlement including the […]

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January 2, 2006 3 comments Columns