While some people may be taking a breather with the arrival of summer, commentary on Bill C-60 continues to trickle in. The latest comes from Brian Bowman, a lawyer in Winnipeg who writes a regular column for the Winnipeg Free Press. The paper features Copyright Changes Both Right and Wrong […]
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Electric Sky Podcast on Copyright
As I watch with admiration at the many sites that have added podcasts to their mix, I have been hoping to do the same. That may happen some time in the future, but in the meantime, I was recently interviewed for the Electric Sky podcast, a local Ottawa podcast site. We discussed Canadian copyright issues including some of the recent legislative proposals. I think I sound a bit subdued, but it was a fun experience and it is great to see the budding enthusiasm for these new forms of expression.
CBC’s Inventing the Internet Age
The CBC Archive launched an interesting new feature today titled Inventing the Internet Age. The feature includes about 20 television and radio stories that trace the development of the Internet in the 1980s and early 1990s. The television stories from the early 1990s are particularly interesting as they include Bill […]
The Globe on Copyright
The Globe and Mail ran yet another copyright masthead editorial today, A Line on File Sharing (reg. required), which predictably supported the U.S. Supreme Court's Grokster decision. Given its two other recent copyright editorials which virtually parroted the recording industry's position on copyright, it comes as little surprise to find […]
Policies Old and New
Just as Canada and the U.S. were gearing up for a holiday weekend, there was a flurry of noteworthy policy developments. I expect that I will have more to say about each in the weeks ahead, so I only pause to comment briefly on each (in order of media coverage […]