The Toronto Star's Susan Delacourt on copyright reform.
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The Copyright Act With C-61
Felix helpfully creates a new version of the Copyright Act that incorporates the provisions found in C-61 (PDF format, OpenOffice format).
Alberta Court Orders Damages Over Domain Name “Sabotage”
An Alberta judge has ordered a former employee of a bike shop to pay $15,000 in damages after he registered a competing domain name and forwarded it to a pornographic website. The bike shop used a dot-ca domain and the ex-exployee registered the dot-com version.
61 Reforms to C-61, Day 2: Format Shifting Limited to Videocassettes
One of Bill C-61's "consumer-oriented provisions" (as emphasized by Industry Minister Jim Prentice) is the arrival of format shifting. Prentice's opening remarks focused on how consumers will be able to legally "format shift" music, photographs, and books under the new bill. Yet the format shifting provisions for video are nothing […]
Show Your Fair Copyright for Canada Colours
In light of several requests, we've launched a Fair Copyright for Canada online shop at Cafe Press. You can now get t-shirts, buttons, stickers, mugs and an assortment of other schwag. In addition to the Fair Copyright for Canada stuff, users are invited to submit their own artwork ideas for […]
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