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Why Buy American Has Nothing to do With Canadian Copyright Reform

Blayne Haggart, a PhD student at Carleton, has a great post explaining why the attempted linkage between Buy American policies (largely state and municipal) and copyright policies (federal) are false.

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December 10, 2009 2 comments News

Why SOCAN Wanted To Keep Its Copyright Submission Secret

Howard Knopf provides his take on why SOCAN wanted to keep its copyright submission secret.  The key issue – retroactive legislative reform.

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December 10, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

New Zealand Coalition Forms To Fight ACTA

ComputerWorld NZ reports that a new New Zealand coalition has formed to fight ACTA.

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December 10, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

Canada To Host ACTA Meeting in 2010?

As public discussion and media coverage of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement continues to mount (Search Engine, Angus editorial), it is worth considering whether Canada will play host to an ACTA meeting next year.  The locations and dates for the next two meetings in 2010 have already been disclosed: Mexico (week […]

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December 9, 2009 2 comments News

Angus Op-Ed on ACTA

The Georgia Straight features an editorial on ACTA by NDP MP Charlie Angus.  His conclusion: the Tories have to come clean on ACTA. This treaty spells bad news for citizens, democratic rights, and the development of an innovation agenda. Canadian citizens need to get active and fight back. As it […]

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December 9, 2009 1 comment News