University of Toronto law prof Ariel Katz embarks on an important research project on copyright collectives.
Archive for March, 2008
Toronto Star on a Cut-and-Paste Novel
The Toronto Star reports on Graham Rawle's Woman's World, a novel consisting of 40,000 text fragments.
New Canadian Business IP Coalition on the Way
Sources indicate that there may be a new business IP coalition on the way, presumably to counter the Business Coalition for Balanced Copyright. The BCBC, which includes a who's who of telecommunications, Internet, broadcast, and retail companies, has called on the government to adopt a balanced approach that addresses fair […]
CMEC On Fair Dealing
The Council of Ministers of Education, Canada has published its third bulletin on copyright reform, this time explaining why it believes fair dealing is insufficient for its needs and that an Internet exception for education is the better approach. The bulletin highlights again how CMEC and its allies have failed […]
E-Publishing and the Law
Last week I gave a public lecture for the Canadian Journalism Foundation titled E-Publishing and the Law. Roger Cullman provides a good summary at the BlogTO site.
Recent Posts
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 200: Colin Bennett on the EU’s Surprising Adequacy Finding on Canadian Privacy Law 
Debating the Online Harms Act: Insights from Two Recent Panels on Bill C-63 
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 199: Boris Bytensky on the Criminal Code Reforms in the Online Harms Act 
AI Spending is Not an AI Strategy: Why the Government’s Artificial Intelligence Plan Avoids the Hard Governance Questions 
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 198: Richard Moon on the Return of the Section 13 Hate Speech Provision in the Online Harms Act
