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FreeDominion Hit With Human Rights Complaint

FreeDominion.ca has been hit with a human rights complaint. The complaint arises from a post that allegedly attacks Muslims.

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July 24, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

VANOC Looking for Word Watchdog

Fresh off its legislative success, the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee is now looking for a company to "trawl the Internet, scour the media and be on the lookout for any kind of unauthorized use of protected words and symbols."

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July 24, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

Facebook Growth in Canada

Thought Balloons has a great chart breaking down Facebook's growth in Canada over the past three months.

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July 24, 2007 3 comments News

CBC on Counterfeit Culture

Several people have pointed to this CBC multimedia report on counterfeiting, that includes the dubious claim that 40% of pirated DVDs originate in Canada (double what the CMPDA told a House of Commons committee).

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July 24, 2007 2 comments News

Supreme Court Copyright Case Coming on Thursday

The Supreme Court of Canada has just announced that it will release its decision in Euro-Excellence v. Kraft Canada on Thursday.  The case raises some interesting copyright issues including the prospect of explicitly incorporating the copyright misuse doctrine into Canadian law.

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July 23, 2007 1 comment News