Mashable highlights the commercial success of Monty Python's YouTube channel, which is leveraging freely available vidoes into huge increases in DVD sales.
Archive for January, 2009
Google Calls for UK Adoption of Fair Use
Google has called on the UK government to adopt a fair use provision, similar to that found in the United States.
Debating the Success or Failure of One Laptop Per Child
Interesting debate at the Walrus and OLPC News on the success or failure of the OLPC initiative.
Liberals Unveil New Shadow Cabinet
Two months after naming their last shadow cabinet, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff today unveiled a revised (and slimmed down) shadow cabinet. The opposition critics in the two areas with the strongest link to technology issues have changed – the new Liberal opposition critic for Industry, Science and Technology is Mark […]
NFB Makes Films Free Online
The CBC reports that the National Film Board of Canada has launched a new project that makes over 700 films freely available online. The site is part of a $1.3 million digitization project.
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
