IT Business features a story on how George Bernard Shaw's work is in the public domain in Canada and therefore used for high school students in an Ontario-wide project. The article includes comments that the term of copyright "almost everywhere in the world" is life of the author plus 70 […]
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DRM and the Amazon Kindle
Lots of talk online about the ability of Amazon to brick the Kindle following claims of abuses of the company's return policy.

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Episode 277: Kate Robertson on the Risks That Lie Behind Canada's Unexpected Signing of the UN Cybercrime Convention
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