Post Tagged with: "copycon"

Access Copyright: Reduce Fair Dealing, No Taping TV Shows or Format Shifting

The Government continues to post copyright consultation submissions (still lots to go one month after the consultation concluded) with many making for interesting reading.  Access Copyright's submission is worth noting for two reasons.  First, rather than simply arguing against flexible fair dealing, it argues that the current fair dealing provision […]

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October 14, 2009 18 comments News

CRTC Calls For Expanded Copying For Private Use

The Government is still in the midst of posting copyright consultation submissions. Yesterday it posted a notable response from the CRTC yesterday.  While it was somewhat surprising for the Commission to participate in the consultation, it used the opportunity to focus on three issues – tariff setting for radio, streamlining […]

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October 9, 2009 7 comments News

Industry Canada Responds: Copyright Consultation Submissions Are Coming

I spoke earlier today with an official at Industry Canada regarding the thousands of missing copyright consultation submissions.  I was advised that there was a huge spike of submissions toward the very end of the consultation period.  There were slightly over 8,100 submissions, a huge number in comparison with virtually […]

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September 25, 2009 7 comments News

Where Are The Copyight Consultation Submissions?

For the past week, I've been receiving daily emails from Canadians asking if I know why their copyight consultation submission has not been posted.  The website currently includes some submissions for every day the consultation was open (September 15th), yet there are thousands of submissions that are still not up.  […]

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September 24, 2009 35 comments News

CIRPA Calls for Longer Data Retention To Facilitate Lawsuits

The Canadian Independent Record Production Association has posted its submission to the copyright consultation.  Notwithstanding the industry's repeated assurances that it does not plan to file lawsuits in Canada, CIRPA calls on the government to establish "the retention of data by users for a sufficient period to allow for effective […]

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September 23, 2009 9 comments News