The Canadian Press picks up on the story involving Nettwerk's backing of a defendant in an RIAA suit. The story includes some additional comments and insights from Nettwerk's Terry McBride. McBride says that he has the support of all the artists that he manages including Avril Lavigne, the Barenaked Ladies, […]
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Lessons Learned
The Bulte story is generating considerable media attention today (Canadian Press, Globeandmail.com, IT Business) as the "bloggers influence the election" angle is an attractive one. This obviously continues the theme from last week when Macleans, Toronto Star, National Post, and Globe and Mail all discussed the same issue (as did […]
It’s a Celebration
I know I've said this before, but the Sam Bulte issue continues to resonate, with articles this week in Macleans and the National Post (behind a paywall). Moreover, constituents are still raising the issue with Bulte at all-candidates meetings. The Toronto Star reports on last night's meeting, where the fundraiser […]
Yet Another Reason for Fair Use
The Liberal Party has provided a helpful reminder about why we need a fair use right under Canadian copyright law. The Liberals have called on the Conservatives to withdraw an advertisement titled Even Liberals (currently the top link at the video portion of the party's site) because of copyright infringement. […]
Time To Clean Up Canadian Copyright
While there has been great interest in the Bulte story for the past two weeks (which continues with Cory Doctorow's terrific op-ed yesterday on the dangers of U.S. style copyright reform in the Toronto Star, Rob Hyndman's great post on the impact of blogs, and the Globe's Matthew Ingram), I […]