Archive for February 8th, 2006

The CBC as a Role Model

I’ve been critical of the CBC over the past few months, emphasizing the need for Canada’s public broadcaster to do more to embrace the potential of new technologies and the Internet. To that end, there are signs that the CBC is moving in the right direction. In addition to a […]

The Digital Road Leads Out of Rome

My weekly Law Bytes column (BBC version, homepage version) focuses on last week's OECD meeting on the future of the digital economy. The column notes that the discussion pointed to two competing approaches for the distribution of content in the Internet era, one based on DRM and the other on […]

The Digital Road Leads Out of Rome

Appeared on the BBC on February 8, 2006 as Locking Down Our Digital Future Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on February 9, 2006 as Big Content versus the Amateurs Last week all roads in the digital world led to Rome as hundreds of government officials, policy experts, and companies descended […]