Appeared in the Toronto Star on September 7, 2009 as Digitization of Canada's Heritage Left to Google Digitization of books has become synonymous over the past year with the Google Book Search project and the class action lawsuit launched in response to the search giant's efforts to create an Internet-based […]
Archive for September, 2009
Copyright Consultation Submission Summary: Over 4,000 Posted Through August 31st
There are now over 4,000 posted submissions with the overwhelming majority of them speaking out against Bill C-61, anti-circumvention rules, and for stronger fair dealing (earlier charts here, here, here, and here). While critics of fair copyright insist on characterizing many as anti-levy or anti-copyright, there have been only five […]
Copyright Consultation Submission Summary: Over 4,000 Posted Through August 31st
There are now over 4,000 posted submissions with the overwhelming majority of them speaking out against Bill C-61, anti-circumvention rules, and for stronger fair dealing (earlier charts here, here, here, and here). While critics of fair copyright insist on characterizing many as anti-levy or anti-copyright, there have been only five […]
“Expensive, Illogical, and Extraordinarily Negative”
Paul McCartney and Elton John on the UK three strikes and you're out proposal.
Geczy on Copyright Reform
George Geczy, past chair of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce Science and Technology committee, has an op-ed in the Hamilton Spectator urging the public to "be willing to stand up for your rights as a consumer of "intellectual property."
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