Archive for March, 2007

Gilberto Gil Profile

The NY Times with an uplifting profile of Brazilian Culture Minister Gilberto Gil (which also serves as a depressing contrast with Canada's culture minister).

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March 13, 2007 1 comment News

Wireless Number Portability Just a First Step

My weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) focuses on wireless number portability, which makes its much-anticipated debut on Wednesday, allowing Canadian consumers to change their cellphone provider without surrendering their current phone number.  I note that while wireless number portability removes one lock that the providers have […]

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March 12, 2007 4 comments Columns

The Challenges of Digitization

The NY Times features a good review of the challenges associated with digitization.

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March 12, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

Wireless Number Portability Only A First Step

Appeared in the Toronto Star on March 12, 2007 as Number Portability Only a First Step Wireless number portability, which will allow Canadian consumers to change their cellphone provider without surrendering their current phone number, makes its much-anticipated debut on Wednesday.  Canadian consumers have been clamouring for number portability for […]

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March 12, 2007 2 comments Columns Archive

“We Haven’t Sued Anyone”

Canadian Music Week wraps up in Toronto today.  I attended on Thursday, where I participated on a DRM panel that was somewhat less than the sum of its parts (Puretracks, eMusic, SOCAN, ASCAP, Chris Castle, and myself on the panel that packed a room but never fully gelled) and attended […]

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March 10, 2007 5 comments News