The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the California-based non-profit corporation charged with administering the Internet’s domain name system, meets this week in Luxembourg. As usual, only a relatively small group of government officials and people connected to domain name businesses will pay close attention to what transpires. […]
Archive for July 10th, 2005
Wishful Thinking
The Globe and Mail's Jack Kapica has posted in an interesting story on a recent appearance on Canada AM by CRIA President Graham Henderson. Discussing the upcoming copyright bill, Henderson told viewers that "That there is no question that there is language in this proposed bill that is going to […]
Piercing the P2P Myths
Regular readers of my columns that appear in the Toronto Star and Ottawa Citizen will know that I featured a two-part series on the music industry late last year. I’ve updated those articles into a single work that has just been posted on First Monday, a peer-reviewed online journal
The Three Stages of Canadian Privacy Law
Last year the British Columbia government announced plans to outsource the management of its health care system’s personal data to a private sector company based in the United States. The plan sparked a remarkable chain of events – the affected union raised concerns that the data could be accessed by […]
Piercing the P2P Myths
Regular readers of my columns that appear in the Toronto Star and Ottawa Citizen will know that I featured a two-part series on the music industry late last year. I've updated those articles into a single work that has just been posted on First Monday, a peer-reviewed online journal. Piercing […]