Following on CRIA's pledge not to sue consumers who copy their CDs onto iPods or computer hard drives, my regular Law Bytes column (freely available hyperlinked version, Toronto Star version) reflects on the recent decision by the Canadian Supreme Court to let stand a ruling that upheld the legality of […]
Articles by: Michael Geist
The Failure of Canada’s Private Copying System
Appeared in the Toronto Star on August 8, 2005 as Copying Levy Hasn't Worked Well For Anyone Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on August 11, 2005 as Lose the Levy The private copying system, which establishes a levy on recording media such as blank CDs in return for the right […]
U.S. Court Orders Rehearing on RIM Patent Jurisdictional Issues
A U.S. Appellate court today agreed to a Canadian government request for a re-hearing of the jurisdictional issues that arise from the RIM – NTP patent fight. The Canadian government submitted a rare brief on behalf of RIM in January, arguing that the U.S. court had applied U.S. patent laws […]
Collateral Damage
The University of Toronto’s important Open Net Initiative has just released a must-read report on the Telus blockage. While the focus of commentary last week was naturally on the lack of accessibility for the Voices for Change website, the report discovered that there were additional 766 websites that shared the […]
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