World Intellectual Property Day is set for next Tuesday, April 21st and Senator Joseph Day is once again coordinating an event on Parliament Hill. This year, however, MPs and Senators will be joined by members of both IPIC and the Chamber of Commerce's CIPC. The Chamber's IP Council is an […]
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Misconceptions About Canadian Copyright Term
IT Business features a story on how George Bernard Shaw's work is in the public domain in Canada and therefore used for high school students in an Ontario-wide project. The article includes comments that the term of copyright "almost everywhere in the world" is life of the author plus 70 […]
DRM and the Amazon Kindle
Lots of talk online about the ability of Amazon to brick the Kindle following claims of abuses of the company's return policy.
ACTA vs. APEC
Earlier this week, I posted an article on how countries negotiating the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement now acknowledge that a prime motivation behind their participation in the negotiations is the avoidance of WIPO. Interestingly, I recently obtained under the Access to Information Act the Canadian delegation instructions for the APEC Intellectual Property Experts Group (IPEG), meeting held in Taipei in June 2007. These instructions came just months before the formal announcement of ACTA negotiations and several years after the initial work on ACTA began at the G8. The instructions include:
Don’t Leave Canada Behind Campaign
The Globe and Mail reports on the Don't Leave Canada Behind Campaign, which has rallied more than 2,000 researchers against government cuts to scientific research.
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