Appeared in the Toronto Star on February 13, 2006 as Two-Tiered Email To Hurt ConsumersAppeared on the BBC on February 13, 2006 as Email Changes Spark Two-Tier Fears America Online and Yahoo!’ s recent announcement of a new fee-based system for commercial email has generated enormous discussion within the Internet […]
Articles by: Michael Geist
CCTA To Shut Down
The Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association, Canada's leading cable association, announced today that it plans to shut down after 50 years of operations. The CCTA had been hit by several major defections in recent years (Shaw and Videotron being the most prominent) as the key industry players seemingly agreed on less […]
The CBC as a Role Model
I’ve been critical of the CBC over the past few months, emphasizing the need for Canada’s public broadcaster to do more to embrace the potential of new technologies and the Internet. To that end, there are signs that the CBC is moving in the right direction. In addition to a […]
The Digital Road Leads Out of Rome
My weekly Law Bytes column (BBC version, homepage version) focuses on last week's OECD meeting on the future of the digital economy. The column notes that the discussion pointed to two competing approaches for the distribution of content in the Internet era, one based on DRM and the other on […]
The Digital Road Leads Out of Rome
Appeared on the BBC on February 8, 2006 as Locking Down Our Digital Future Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on February 9, 2006 as Big Content versus the Amateurs Last week all roads in the digital world led to Rome as hundreds of government officials, policy experts, and companies descended […]
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