I've written recently about the unfortunate restrictions on the use of House of Commons video clips for parody and other purposes. Kevin McArthur has responded by launching Mycelium, which allows bloggers to easily create embeddable clips of the Question Period stream.
News
Senate Sends C-59 to Committee
The Senate began debate yesterday on Bill C-59, the movie camcording bill. The bill received enthusiastic support from both a Conservative and a Liberal Senator, but the bill was then sent to the Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications for review, suggesting that the Senate might conduct the hearings […]
Must Watch
For those reading this in a feed, I've just added a Must Watch section to the website. While it starts with the recent YouTube video on the movie camcording bill, there will be more added in the weeks ahead as I'm working with law student with a film background on […]
Weekend Reading
There were several interesting and longer articles published over the weekend – check out the Boston Globe on the impact of the Internet on political campaigns, the LA Times on citizen journalism in South Korea, Julian Dibbell in the NY Times with a great piece on Chinese gold farming, and […]
Public Safety and National Security Committee Releases Counterfeiting Report
The Public Safety and National Security Committee has released its report on counterfeiting (I appeared before the committee in the spring). The report makes 14 recommendations, most of which unsurprisingly track the recommendations from the Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network. These include criminal remedies in the Trademarks Act, inclusion of copyright within […]
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