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Canadian Public Domain Told To Cease and Desist

The International Music Score Library Project was a quiet Canadian success story.  Using wiki technologies, it emerged over the past two years as a leading source of public domain music scores, hosting thousands of scores uploaded by a community of students, teachers, and others in the music community.  The site […]

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October 21, 2007 25 comments News

National Post on Copyright Reform

The National Post features a nicely balanced article on forthcoming copyright reform in Canada.

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October 21, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

Audio Version of Open Access Panel

I recently participated on an open access panel at the University of Ottawa.  My presentation can be found here; an MP3 version of the panel is here (I'm the final speaker).

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October 21, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

USTR Declines to Pursue Canadian Film Subsidy Complaint

The USTR has announced that it has declined to pursue a U.S. petition that argued that Canadian subsidies on the filming of U.S.-produced television shows and theatrical films within Canada were inconsistent with WTO obligations.

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October 21, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

“What Would Be Their Specific Need To See?”

The privacy concerns over Prime Minister Harper's Jewish New Year cards continues as the issue has been raised repeatedly in question period and is drawing regular media coverage.  The issue could be defused by simply answering the question of where the list came from, yet when a Conservative spokesperson was […]

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October 19, 2007 4 comments News