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Foreign Affairs Launches Consultation on Canada – India Economic Partnership

The Department of Foreign Affairs has launched a public consultation on plans to negotiate a comprehensive economic partnership agreement with India.  Included among the specific issues identified in the consultation are intellectual property rights protections. The deadline for submissions is April 6, 2009.

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March 11, 2009 — Comments are Disabled — News

NZ ISP Rejects Copyright Code

StuffNZ is reporting that TelstraClear, a leading New Zealand ISP, has rejected a copyright code to implement a three-strikes copyright reform.  The move may lead to a suspension of the proposed provision.

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March 11, 2009 — 3 comments — News

James Moore’s TV Habits

Canwest runs a story that picks up on Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore's comments yesterday that he watches more television on his iPod or through his PVR than he does on a conventional television set.  I am quoted in the piece, noting that many of the Moore's viewing habits may […]

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March 10, 2009 — 18 comments — News

Canadian Presence Requirements vs. Canadian Content Requirements

During today's CRTC new media hearing, Chair Konrad von Finckenstein raised the prospect of identifying Canadian content by virtue of a dot-ca domain name.  This possibility has been discussed several times during these hearings, with the Commission apparently hoping that dot-ca domain name registrations can serve as a proxy for […]

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March 10, 2009 — 10 comments — News

Survey Association Survey Says Do-Not-Call List Works

The Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, whose members are exempt from the do-not-call list, has conducted a survey that it says shows that the do-not-call list is working.

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March 10, 2009 — 9 comments — News