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Facebook Growth in Canada

Thought Balloons has a great chart breaking down Facebook's growth in Canada over the past three months.

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July 24, 2007 3 comments News

CBC on Counterfeit Culture

Several people have pointed to this CBC multimedia report on counterfeiting, that includes the dubious claim that 40% of pirated DVDs originate in Canada (double what the CMPDA told a House of Commons committee).

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July 24, 2007 2 comments News

Supreme Court Copyright Case Coming on Thursday

The Supreme Court of Canada has just announced that it will release its decision in Euro-Excellence v. Kraft Canada on Thursday.  The case raises some interesting copyright issues including the prospect of explicitly incorporating the copyright misuse doctrine into Canadian law.

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July 23, 2007 1 comment News

Unreliable Information

The Australian news site News.com.au is currently reporting that "Refugee Tribunal Hit For Relying on Wikipedia."  The tribunal's decision was set aside because it has used unreliable information.  Ironically, the site was not Wikipedia (as suggested by News.com.au), but rather armeniapedia.org.

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July 23, 2007 1 comment News

The Globe on Open Access

The Globe and Mail featured a lengthy article on the fight for open access in Canada over the weekend, with comments from some of the leaders on the issue.

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July 23, 2007 Comments are Disabled News