Joe Karaganis has an interesting post on the growth of state subsidies for filming movies, the questionable economics behind the subsidies, and why Canada is to blame.
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Akamai’s State of the Internet: Canada Drops to 13th for Broadband Speeds
Akamai has released its latest State of the Internet report. The report ranks Canada 13th worldwide for average broadband speed, down from a tie for 9th in the last quarter.
The Daily Digital Lock Dissenter, Day 15: Canadian Bookseller Association
The Canadian Bookseller Association is a national not-for profit trade association representing trade and campus booksellers in all provinces and territories. Immediately after Bill C-32 was unveiled, the CBA issued a release criticizing the digital lock rules, indicating it: “would like to see the government go even further in the […]
Can Canada Learn Anything From Europe on Copyright?
Von Lewinski, who warned in her speech against NGOs and public interest groups active on copyright issues who she said were really fronts for telcos and ISPs, assured the audience that there were no problems with the digital lock rules in Europe with only one complaint in the many years since it was established (a positioned echoed by Mihaly Ficsor later in the day). It should be noted that other studies, such as this exhaustive one from the Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam commissioned by the European Commission’s Internal Market Directorate General, come to a much different conclusion. It found numerous problems with situation in Europe, recommending:
To remedy the lack of legal certainty and harmonisation with respect to the legal protection of TPMs, and to align the European provisions with the EU’s international obligations under the WIPO Treaties, the EC legislator should consider clarifying the legal framework in four respects. First, the prohibition on acts of circumvention should only find application in circumstances where the act of circumvention results in copyright infringement.
The Daily Digital Lock Dissenter, Day 14: Canadian National Institute for the Blind
The Canadian National Institute for the Blind was founded in 1918 and has grown into the primary resource of Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. The issue of digital locks impeding access for the blind has already been raised in the House of Commons debates on C-11, since the […]