Post Tagged with: "copyright"

Zunior vs. Zune

Wired places the spotlight on Zunior, a Toronto-based online music service that focuses on indie bands and pledges no DRM ever.

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January 23, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

YouTube and Copyright Infringement

There have been no shortage of articles about copyright infringing content on YouTube, but these two videos put a different spin on the issue – using YouTube to prove copyright infringement (hat tip – theutube blog).

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January 23, 2007 1 comment News

Robertson Reflections

Osgoode Hall prof Pina D'Agostino posts on the SCC's Robertson v. Thomson decision.  Limits on contractual contracting is an issue I touched on during the 30 Days of DRM.  It was also raised by a Senate report on Canadian media, though Canadian Heritage Minister Bev Oda rejected a recommendation to […]

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January 22, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

Debating DRM

Paid Content has a pair of interesting reports from the MidemNet conference in France including coverage of a DRM debate between representatives from the CEA, RIAA, and MPAA (the CEA response to RIAA's claim that it makes the recording industry look evil – "I don’t make you look evil – […]

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January 21, 2007 1 comment News

It’s Not Just Music

It isn't only the music industry that enjoyed commercial success in Canada in 2006.  The video game industry – both hardware and software – enjoyed record sales with no signs that current Canadian copyright law somehow impedes that commercial success.

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January 19, 2007 1 comment News