Articles by: Michael Geist

The Book Business and the Internet

The NY Times runs a good article on the debate within the book industry over how to react to Internet distribution.

June 4, 2006 — Comments are Disabled — News

We Are All Journalists Now

Appeared in the Toronto Star on June 5, 2006 as We Are All Journalists Now The blossoming of citizen journalism stands as one of the Internet’s most exciting developments. With millions of bloggers, tens of millions of Internet posters, and hundreds of millions of readers, online news sources have radically […]

June 4, 2006 — 1 comment — Columns Archive

Internet Monitoring Leads to Terror Arrests

This weekend’s arrest of 17 people in Toronto on terrorism-related arrests have generated significant worldwide attention. Not to be overlooked are the reports that Internet monitoring played a key role in the investigation. According to the Toronto Star "when CSIS began monitoring the sites allegedly used by some of the […]

June 4, 2006 — 5 comments — News

Linking to Captain Copyright

One of the discussion points regarding Access Copyright's Captain Copyright, has been the attempt to restrict who can link to the site. Interestingly, Access Copyright has now altered the specific linking terms. The earlier version, which is still used for the main Access Copyright site, provided that:

June 3, 2006 — 2 comments — News

Youthforvolpe.ca

The Globe and Mail ran a piece this morning about a Joe Volpe parody website that was taken down almost immediately, which the article attributed in part to CIRA. This generated a lot of email, particularly since I am on the CIRA board. CIRA has just released a statement clarifying […]

June 2, 2006 — 9 comments — News