Last month I conducted an hour-long interview with Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt on a new TWiT program called Triangulation. The interview focuses primarily on ACTA and Canadian copyright reform.
Archive for January, 2011
House of Commons Committee Invites Comments on Open Government
The House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics has invited the public to provide submissions on its open government study. I appeared before the committee last month.
Canadians Speaking Out on Bill C-32: Only Five Days Left
The House of Commons resumes next week with hearings on Bill C-32 likely to pick up where they left off in December. As I noted last week, the Bill C-32 committee has invited Canadians to provide their views on the bill in email submissions due no later than January 31, 2011. The call for comments has attracted some attention, leading to some posting their responses online:
- Project Gutenberg Canada
- CLUE: Canada’s Association for Free/Libre and Open Source Software policy co-ordinator Russell McOrmond
- Professor Meera Nair, Simon Fraser University
- Option Key
- Karl Plesz
- Ben Harack
A reminder that the Committee has set the following parameters:
Netflix CEO: Canadian ISP Caps “Significant Negative”
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has stated that he’s worried about the download caps imposed by Canadian ISPs, acknowledging that they could be “a significant negative for Netflix.â€
CRTC Rules Videotron Violated Undue Preference Rules on Video-on-Demand Service
The CRTC has ruled that Videotron violated undue preference rules when it gave its video-on-demand service exclusive rights to some of its broadcaster programs. The Commission ordered the company to provide the programs to Telus and Bell.
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
