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Foreign Affairs Posts Summary of ACTA Consultation Meeting

The Department of Foreign Affairs has posted a good summary of the recent ACTA consultation meeting. The powerpoint from the meeting is here.  My posts following the meeting are here, here, here, here, and here.

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April 17, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

CRIA and CMPDA Step Up Canadian Copyright Lobby Campaign

While CRIA may be preparing a "grassroots" campaign to promote DMCA-style copyright reform, it is unsurprisingly not waiting for that effort to take hold.  According to the latest lobbying reports filed with the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying, CRIA and CMPDA have been among the most active on the […]

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April 17, 2009 9 comments News

World IP Day Event on Parliament Hill

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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April 17, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

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 […]

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April 17, 2009 3 comments News

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.

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April 17, 2009 Comments are Disabled News