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CRTC Issues First Notices of Violation of Do-Not-Call List

The CRTC has filed its first two notices of violation under the do-not-call list.  The Commission says that it will not name the two companies if they pay the applicable fine.

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July 8, 2009 4 comments News

Health Research Funders Join To Create PubMed Central Canada

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI), and the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) have announced a three-way partnership to establish PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada). PMC Canada will be a national digital repository of peer-reviewed health […]

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July 8, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

Pope Benedict XVI on Intellectual Property

KEI notes that Pope Benedict XVI has issued an encyclical letter denouncing the excessive zeal for assertions of intellectual property rights in knowledge.  The Pope states "on the part of rich countries there is excessive zeal for protecting knowledge through an unduly rigid assertion of the right to intellectual property, […]

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July 8, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

Pirate Party MEP on Copyright and Online Freedoms

Pirate Party MEP Christian Engström has an op-ed in the Financial Times on how copyright laws now threaten online freedoms.

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July 8, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

Kenyan AIDS Patients Challenge Anti-Counterfeiting Law

IP Watch reports that three Kenyan AIDS patients have launched a constitutional challenge against that country's anti-counterfeiting legislation on the grounds that it may deny them access to generic medicines.

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July 8, 2009 1 comment News