During last fall's U.S. presidential election, CBS News featured a controversial report on President George W. Bush's military service. The report, which relied on unverified documents, generated enormous media coverage, eventually leading to a public apology and the upcoming retirement of veteran news anchor Dan Rather. Several weeks ago, […]
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Why Ottawa should stand on guard in RIM case
The acronym IP means a variety of different things to different people. To computer scientists, IP refers to Internet Protocol, the technical standard that plays a key role in the network design of the Internet. To politicians, IP may be used as shorthand for Industrial Policy, while economists may think […]
Fairness calls for fairer rules
As developing countries seek access to new technologies, they frequently find that global intellectual property law rules represent a significant barrier to development.Years of international agreements have failed to balance the interests of the developed and developing worlds and have led to annual outflows of billions of dollars from the […]
National Web library do-able, affordable, visionary
In the mid-1990s, Ottawa established a bold new vision for the Internet in Canada. The centrepiece was a commitment to establish national Internet access from coast to coast to coast, supported by a program that would enable the country to quickly become the first in the world to connect every […]
Banner year for digital decisions
2004's tech rulings shaping lives, business This past year saw several landmark developments in Canadian technology law. The Supreme Court of Canada released a trio of important rulings, federal policy makers grappled with difficult issues such as copyright and spam, and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) held hearings […]
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