Post Tagged with: "copyright"

ComputerWorld Canada on Copyright Reform

ITWorld Canada features an editorial warning the technical community of the dangers of copyright reform, arguing that "a piece of legislation that views TPM circumvention in black and white will only harm Canadian industries and consumers, effectively trumping their fair use rights in the process. And fair dealing should be […]

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March 24, 2008 1 comment News

Patry on Israel and the USTR

Bill Patry features a great blog posting on Israel, the USTR, and the IIPA.

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March 23, 2008 1 comment News

Katz on Collectives

University of Toronto law prof Ariel Katz embarks on an important research project on copyright collectives.

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March 16, 2008 Comments are Disabled News

Toronto Star on a Cut-and-Paste Novel

The Toronto Star reports on Graham Rawle's Woman's World, a novel consisting of 40,000 text fragments.

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March 16, 2008 Comments are Disabled News

CMEC On Fair Dealing

The Council of Ministers of Education, Canada has published its third bulletin on copyright reform, this time explaining why it believes fair dealing is insufficient for its needs and that an Internet exception for education is the better approach.  The bulletin highlights again how CMEC and its allies have failed […]

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March 13, 2008 8 comments News