TJX has taken a $12 million charge related to the data security breach that affected Winners and HomeSense in Canada.
Articles by: Michael Geist
The Long Memory of the Internet
The CBC's The Current spent thirty minutes yesterday talking about the long memory of the Internet. A podcast version is available here (thanks Jeremy!).
Questionable Questions
Copyright and movie camcording were both raised yesterday during Question Period in the House of Commons. While the responses from Canadian Heritage Minister Bev Oda and Industry Minister Maxime Bernier were about as expected (essentially "we're working on it"), the questions from Bloc Heritage Critic Maka Kotto are revealing. Kotto focused on Canada's "outdated" copyright law and asked when it will be modified to "be in line with the two WIPO treaties Canada ratified in 1996." Regular readers will know that Canada did not ratify the treaties in 1996. Rather, Canada signed the treaties in 1997 and there is a world of difference between signing and ratifying a treaty.
Kotto's question about movie piracy lumped Canada together with China, Malaysia, and India, while claiming that "Canadian industry and the Government of Canada have suffered estimated losses of several million dollars."
BSA Releases Annual Report
The Business Software Alliance has released its annual global software piracy report. Some object to study's methodology, but note that the BSA reports that Canada is among the 20 countries with the lowest piracy rates worldwide, ranking far lower than many European countries such as France, Spain, Greece, Portugal, and […]
Spanish Jazz Club Wins Creative Commons Case
Andres Guadamuz reports on an interesting case from Spain involving a bar, copyright collective, and Creative Commons licensed music.
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