The Copyright Board of Canada has released its decision on royalties for music usage on satellite radio. Details here, here, here, and here.
Archive for April, 2009
DFAIT Posts ACTA Presentation
The Department of Foreign Affairs has now posted its presentation from earlier this week on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. I posted commentary on the meeting in five brief postings (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Lessons From the Identity Trail
For the past several years, my colleague Ian Kerr has led a remarkable project focusing on anonymity, privacy and identity in a networked society. The project – one of the largest funded SSHRC grants in history – brought together dozens of experts from across Canada and around the world. It […]
Senate Anti-Spam Bill Passes Second Reading
Senator Yoine Goldstein's anti-spam bill has passed second reading at the Senate and will now head to committee. Conservative Senators expressed some concerns with the bill and provided assurances that Industry Minister Tony Clement is developing legislative options to address spam.
Protesting The Kindle 2
Gizmodo has photos and video from a protest over the removal of text-to-voice functionality from the Kindle 2.
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
