David Canton looks at the success of Facebook activism in his London Free Press column.
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Euro-Excellence Caves, Settles With Kraft Over Copyright Import Case
Euro-Excellence, which successfully battled Kraft at the Supreme Court of Canada over the parallel importation of chocolate into Canada, has caved to round two of the dispute and settled the matter. While the Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that the Copyright Act could not be used to block the chocolate […]
Canadian Digital Music Sales Growth Beats The U.S. For Third Consecutive Year
Nielsen Soundscan released the Canadian music sales figures for 2008 today and for the third straight year it sings the same tune — Canadian digital music sales are growing faster than the United States. That's right – for digital music sales the market without the DMCA has grown faster each […]
Apple Drops DRM For iTunes Music
While the writing has been on the wall for a long time, Apple announced yesterday that it is dropping DRM for music from all four major labels. As I told the Globe and Mail, this decision continues to shift away from the failed strategy of locks and levies, though the […]
Creative Commons Licensed Album Amazon’s 2008’s Top MP3 Seller
The Creative Commons blog notes that Nine Inch Nail's Ghosts I-IV – which was freely available under a CC license – was the best selling MP3 album on Amazon in 2008.
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