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Digital Arts Covers the 51st State Comic

DigitalArts has a feature story on Gordon Duggan's 51st State comic.

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June 19, 2008 Comments are Disabled News

Jim Prentice’s Letters to the Editor

After months of saying little and refusing to meet with many user, education, and consumer groups, Industry Minister Jim Prentice is apparently planning to counter as many negative articles and editorials as he can find.  After yesterday's Toronto Star letter (which generated the predictable critical response from Star readers), Prentice […]

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June 18, 2008 19 comments News

NDP Response to the Prentice DMCA

A blog reader writes with the response they received from NDP Leader Jack Layton on Bill C-61: Thank you for sharing your concern over Bill C-61, An Act to amend the Copyright Act. The NDP is strongly opposed to this bill and we are calling on MPs from other parties […]

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June 18, 2008 17 comments News

Montreal Fair Copyright for Canada Strategy Meeting

The Montreal Gazette reports that the Fair Copyright For Canada Montreal Facebook chapter is planning a strategy meeting on Thursday, June 19th.

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June 18, 2008 2 comments News

Education and Library Groups Speak Out Against Bill C-61

The Canadian Library Association (which calls the new consumer rights "smoke and mirrors"), CAUT ("the effective end of fair dealing"), Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences ("not good news for the education and research communities"), and the Canadian Federation of Students ("bill was tabled this summer without any […]

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June 18, 2008 Comments are Disabled News