Archive for April 4th, 2006

CIHR Open to Open Access

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research, one of the three main federal research funding agencies, has just announced that it plans to pursue a new open access policy for funded research.  Notes the CIHR: "The aim is to establish a policy that will both help researchers gain access to the […]

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April 4, 2006 Comments are Disabled News

Hart House Lecture URLs

I've received many requests for a list of the websites included in my Hart House Lecture last week.  The lecture itself should be available in webcast and podcast formats shortly (along with a PDF of the text), but in the meantime, the URLs for the sites I discussed are:

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April 4, 2006 Comments are Disabled News

CBC’s The Hour: iTunes in France

Video of segment on CBC’s The Hour to discuss the move by the French government to legislate interoperability for Apple iTunes. [link no longer works]

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April 4, 2006 Comments are Disabled Video

The Hour on iTunes in France

I recently appeared on CBC's The Hour to discuss the move by the French government to legislate interoperability for Apple iTunes. The segment from March 22nd is available here.

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April 4, 2006 Comments are Disabled News

ICANN Faces Pressure From Friends and Foes

My latest Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, BBC version, homepage version) highlights the growing frustration with ICANN’s accountability and transparency. The column highlights the many policy issues associated with Internet governance and notes that over the past month even ICANN’s most ardent supporters have begun to express doubts about the organization' s lack of transparency and accountability. 

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April 4, 2006 Comments are Disabled Columns