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The 2009 Canadian Copyright Lobby Scoreboard

With the Canadian mainstream media featuring prominent coverage of the Conference Board of Canada's decision to recall its now discredited IP reports (Globe and Mail, CBC, Montreal Gazette, IT Business, Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Star, Chronicle of Higher Education) it is worth remembering why the copyright lobby funded the […]

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May 29, 2009 16 comments News

The 2009 Canadian Copyright Lobby Scoreboard

With the Canadian mainstream media featuring prominent coverage of the Conference Board of Canada's decision to recall its now discredited IP reports (Globe and Mail, CBC, Montreal Gazette, IT Business, Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Star, Chronicle of Higher Education) it is worth remembering why the copyright lobby funded the […]

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May 29, 2009 Comments are Disabled Stop CDMCA

Canadian Firm Wins $200 Million Patent Award Over Microsoft

CNET reports that i4i, a Toronto-based firm, has been awarded US$200 million in damages from Microsoft in a patent infringement case.  A Texas jury ruled that the custom XML tagging features of Word 2003 and Word 2007 infringed on an i4i patent.

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May 20, 2009 6 comments News

Microsoft Wins Big Damage Award in Copyright Case

Howard Knopf points to a recent Federal Court case in which Microsoft was awarded $250,000 arising from copyright infringement of its software.

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May 5, 2009 1 comment News

CRIA and CMPDA Step Up Canadian Copyright Lobby Campaign

While CRIA may be preparing a "grassroots" campaign to promote DMCA-style copyright reform, it is unsurprisingly not waiting for that effort to take hold.  According to the latest lobbying reports filed with the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying, CRIA and CMPDA have been among the most active on the […]

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April 17, 2009 9 comments News