Post Tagged with: "copyright"

ACTA Negotiations – Start September 23rd, No Firm End Date

Open Rights Group met with UK officials on ACTA this week and reports that negotiations on the next round will begin next week in Tokyo. Officials say that the negotiations will begin on September 23rd and that the U.S. hopes to keep talking until a deal is done.

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September 17, 2010 3 comments News

CRIA President: C-32’s Statutory Damages Reform a Licence to Steal

CRIA President Graham Henderson had some noteworthy comments on copyright reform in an article just published by Grammy.com.  While unsurprisingly supportive of Bill C-32, Henderson expressed specific concern about changes to the statutory damages provision.  After the government faced criticism for its $500 cap on downloading damages in Bill C-61, […]

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September 16, 2010 141 comments News

Cdn Music Industry Assoc Chair: Format Shifting, User Generated Content Keep Piracy Sites Going

J.P. Ellson, the Chair of the Canadian Council of Music Industry Association and board member of the industry’s Balanced Copyright for Canada site, makes some rather surprising claims in a post urging Canadians to join the BCFC cause.  After the usual industry talking points on C-32, Ellson implausibly argues: Among […]

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September 15, 2010 71 comments News

World Economic Forum Ranks Canada Ahead of US, Japan, UK on IP Protection

In recent years, several lobby groups (along with the U.S. government) have worked extremely hard to convince the Canadian public that Canadian intellectual property laws are substandard, leading to claims that investment in Canada is harmed because of our legal framework. Bill C-32 is obviously a response to that pressure, […]

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September 13, 2010 6 comments News

Ignatieff on Bill C-32

Digital-Copyright.ca posts a letter from Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff on Bill C-32.  It includes: we believe that Canadian consumers who have legitimately purchased a CD or a DVD or other product should also have the ability to transfer their purchase onto their iPod or make a personal backup copy on […]

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September 13, 2010 9 comments News