Articles by: Michael Geist

Goldstein Reintroduces Anti-Spam Bill

Senator Yoine Goldstein has reintroduced his anti-spam bill.  Bill S-202 is designed to provide Canadian authorities with the tools to address spamming activities.

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December 2, 2008 4 comments News

Coverage of the Why Copyright Film

CBC, La Presse, and the National Post blog about Why Copyright? Canadian Voices on Copyright Law. Update: Roberto Rocha at the Montreal Gazette provides his take on the film.

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December 2, 2008 Comments are Disabled News

Obama Transition Team Uses Creative Commons Licence

The Obama transition team website located at change.gov has adjusted its copyright license to a Creative Commons attribution licence.  The Canadian government still maintains crown copyright over similar documents.

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December 2, 2008 1 comment News

Lawless Canada Emerging as a Spam Haven

Appeared in the Toronto Star on December 1, 2008 as Canada Emerges as Haven for Spam Last month, a California court awarded social networking giant Facebook US$873 million in damages arising from the activities of a single spamming organization.  The decision garnered headlines in Canada not only for the lofty […]

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December 1, 2008 Comments are Disabled Columns Archive

Knopf on IP and the Economy

Howard Knopf has a terrific post on how Canada could use IP and IP policy to address concerns with the economy.

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December 1, 2008 1 comment News