Archive for May 1st, 2005

Copyrighting Science: Canadian Copyright Reform and the Future of Scientific Research

I contributed Copyrighting Science: Canadian Copyright Reform and the Future of Scientific Research to the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee, a Committee of external experts run by Health Canada that no longer exists. This committee advised ministers on the ethical, social, economic, scientific, regulatory, environmental and health aspects of biotechnology to aid in the development of Canada’s […]

Face to Face With The Great Firewall of China

As the Internet was taking flight in the early 1990s, John Gilmore, one of the co-founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a leading online civil liberties group, is credited with having coined the infamous phrase that “the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” Gilmore’s view has since […]