Post Tagged with: "copyright"

EU Gives Go Ahead For Canada Trade Talks

The Globe and Mail reports that the EU has given the go-ahead for trade talks with Canada.  The potential free trade agreement would include a wide variety of provisions including copyright.

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April 27, 2009 2 comments News

Canadian Music Piracy Claims, Circa 1897

BoingBoing points to a NY Times article from 1897 discussing claims from the U.S. music publisher industry about "Canadian pirates."  Earlier this year, I sat on the doctoral committee of Sara Bannerman, who has written a remarkable dissertation that traces the pressure Canada faced on copyright from both the U.S. […]

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April 27, 2009 1 comment News

BBC Column on ACTA

The BBC runs an updated version of one of my recent pieces on ACTA.

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April 23, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

Pirate Bay Demands Retrial Amid Conflict Allegations

A lawyer representing one of the men convicted in the Pirate Bay trial has called for a retrial after reports that the judge was a member of the same copyright protection organizations as several of the main entertainment industry representatives. Judge Norstrom acknowledged to Swedish Radio that he was a […]

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April 23, 2009 12 comments News

Entertainment Software Association Lobbies For Reintroduction Of C-61

The Entertainment Software Association conducted a major lobbying event this week in Ottawa, using it to promote copyright reform and the reintroduction of C-61-like provisions.  Conservative MP Mike Lake, the Parliamentary Secretary to Industry Minister Tony Clement, said that the bill is a priority for the government.

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April 22, 2009 11 comments News