Appeared in the Toronto Star on December 5, 2010 as Location Matters Up in the Cloud The Wikileaks disclosure of hundreds of U.S. diplomatic cables dominated news coverage last week as governments struggled to respond to public disclosure of sensitive, secret information. One of the most noteworthy developments was Amazon’s […]
Articles by: Michael Geist
Macleans on C-32 & Fair Dealing: Claims of Rampant Copying “Grossly Exaggerated”
Macleans education blog has a post on Bill C-32 and the extension of the fair dealing provision to education. The post gets beyond the misinformation campaign to set the record straight: “the claims that the addition of education as a fair dealing category will lead to the erosion of the […]
Sorting Through the Copyright Levy Proposals
“Canadians told us the TPM provisions in C-61 were too far reachingâ€
According to documents I recently obtained under the Access to Information Act, this quote was part of a draft speech for Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore. The quote was removed by department officials before approval of the final version. Moore delivered the speech in June 2010, in which he proceeded […]
CBC’s The National on C-32
CBC’s The National ran a good story on Bill C-32 over the weekend, focusing specifically on the impact on consumers.
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