Articles by: Michael Geist

The Day the Internet Fought Back

starsopa Appeared in the Toronto Star on January 22, 2012 as The Day the Internet Fought Back Last week’s Wikipedia-led blackout in protest of U.S. copyright legislation called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is being hailed by some as the Internet Spring, the day that millions fought back against […]

January 24, 2012 — Comments are Disabled — Columns Archive

Meganomics

Joe Karaganis has a must-read post on the piracy figures involving Megaupload, as he persuasively argues that the profitability of piracy on cloud storage sites is massively overstated.

January 24, 2012 — 1 comment — News

CIRA Proposes Changes to IDN Plan

CIRA has launched a new round of consultations on its amended plans to introduce Internationalized Domain Names. The new process will signficantly restrict the number of new domains as the dot-ca administrative agency is now proposing that the holder of a particular domain name would have the exclusive right to […]

January 24, 2012 — 2 comments — News

The TPP Impact on New Zealand’s Public Domain

Gareth Hughes, a New Zealand Green Party MP, has posted on the impact of extending the term of copyright in New Zealand from life plus 50 years to life plus 70 years as demanded by the Trans Pacific Partnership. Hughes calls attention to many leading NZ works that would be […]

January 24, 2012 — 1 comment — News

Polish Government Reconsiders ACTA

The Polish government is reconsidering signing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement after several government sites were hit with denial of service attacks. A government minister admitted the government had failed to fully consult the public on the issue.

January 24, 2012 — 3 comments — News