Archive for October, 2011

Copyright Reform and the Case of Illicit T-Shirts

Jesse Kline has an notable op-ed in the National Post that criticizes Bill C-11’s digital lock rules. The column notes that just because someone breaks a digital lock does not mean they are infringing someone’s copyright.

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October 27, 2011 3 comments News

Bill C-11 Legislative Committee Membership Set

The government has unveiled the membership of the legislative committee that will review Bill C11.  Members include Conservative MPs Scott Armstrong, Peter Braid, Paul Calandra, Dean Del Mastro, Mike Lake, Phil McColeman, and Rob Moore; NDP MPs Charlie Angus, Tyrone Benskin, Andrew Cash, and Pierre Nantel; and Liberal MP Geoff […]

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October 27, 2011 3 comments News

Facebook Scans All Photo Uploads for Matches with Offenders

A story on Facebook and its efforts to counter child pornography reveals that the social network scans all uploaded photos. According to the article, “every picture uploaded by Facebook users is run through a program called “Photo DNA,”  he said, to look for possible matches with offenders. The company saves […]

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October 27, 2011 2 comments News

Royal Society Journal Archive Made Permanently Free to Access

The Royal Society in the UK has announced that its historical journal archive – which includes the first ever peer-reviewed scientific journal – has been made permanently free to access online.  

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October 27, 2011 Comments are Disabled News

Search Engine on Copyright: Digital Lockdown

TVO’s Search Engine focuses on Canadian copyright this week as I spoke with host Jesse Brown about the future of Bill C-11 (likely to pass largely unchanged), the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision on linking liability, and the constitutional questions surrounding the current digital lock rules. The MP3 version […]

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October 26, 2011 9 comments News