Post Tagged with: "canada"

Cellphone Confusion

Peter Nowak of CBC.ca covers the marketplace confusion over cellphone plans.

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November 19, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

Is ACTA the New WIPO?

It has been readily apparent for a number of months now that "counterfeiting and piracy" is the new focal point for intellectual property policy reform.  With global conferences, legislative hearings in national capitals, and new anti-counterfeiting coalitions, copyright lobby groups have jumped on the anti-counterfeiting bandwagon.  While the claims regularly […]

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October 24, 2007 11 comments News

Canadian Public Domain Told To Cease and Desist

The International Music Score Library Project was a quiet Canadian success story.  Using wiki technologies, it emerged over the past two years as a leading source of public domain music scores, hosting thousands of scores uploaded by a community of students, teachers, and others in the music community.  The site […]

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October 21, 2007 25 comments News

National Post on Copyright Reform

The National Post features a nicely balanced article on forthcoming copyright reform in Canada.

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October 21, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

USTR Declines to Pursue Canadian Film Subsidy Complaint

The USTR has announced that it has declined to pursue a U.S. petition that argued that Canadian subsidies on the filming of U.S.-produced television shows and theatrical films within Canada were inconsistent with WTO obligations.

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October 21, 2007 Comments are Disabled News