Search Engine covers [MP3] the new DMCA exemptions in an interesting interview with EFF’s Corynne McSherry.
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Public Knowledge’s IP3 Award
I am honoured to have been named one of the recipients of Public Knowledge’s IP3 Awards for 2010. Public Knowledge does great work on digital rights issues and their IP3 Awards have identified some of the biggest contributors to those issues. It’s a particular honour to be named this year […]
Nokia Criticizes ACTA Substance and Process
Nokia’s global director of brand protection has published a critical column on ACTA in the World Trademark Review (sub required). The column says that ACTA is unnecessarily broad and that by excluding key countries from the negotiations, those countries “are practically forced into a position of opposition.”
SAC Renews Calls for Legalized Downloading With Levies
The SAC’s Eddie Schwartz has an op-ed in the Straight, renewing the call for the legalization of downloading in return for a monthly ISP levy.
Copyright Bill Disturbs Rights Balance Between Creators and Users
Jenna Wilson and Sangeetha Punniyamoorthy, IP lawyers with Dimock Stratton LLP in Toronto, argue in the Lawyers Weekly that “Anti-circumvention provisions could be implemented in the Copyright Act without significantly disturbing the balance between users and creators in the way Bill C-32 does.”
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