Post Tagged with: "consultation"

The Forthcoming Copyright Consultation – An Update

CBC and Billboard provide some additional coverage of the copyright consultation to be announced next week. Word is that the roundtables will begin immediately with at least two planned next week in Vancouver and Calgary with more to follow across the country. The first is apparently scheduled for the Vancouver […]

July 15, 2009 — Comments are Disabled — Stop CDMCA

Canadian Copyright Consultation To Launch July 20th

There is word this weekend that the government's plans for the national copyright consultation has taken shape. The consultation will officially launch on Monday, July 20th and run for nearly two months until Sunday, September 13th. The framing of the consultation is as follows: The Government of Canada has committed […]

July 11, 2009 — 14 comments — News

Better Late Than Never

The Department of Foreign Affairs has sent requests to people who submitted comments on the first ACTA consultation to ask their permission to post their comments online. I previously posted the summary of those comments obtained under ATIP.

April 30, 2009 — Comments are Disabled — News

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.

March 11, 2009 — Comments are Disabled — News

DFAIT Consults on Canada – EU Trade Agreement

Howard Knopf points to a DFAIT consultation – with a deadline of tomorrow – on a possible trade agreement between Canada and the EU. Intellectual property figures prominently in the discussion. Note that DFAIT continues to accept comments on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which is being treated as an […]

January 19, 2009 — 1 comment — News