Post Tagged with: "copyright"

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 […]

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January 15, 2006 3 comments Columns

Debating Bulte

While Ms. Bulte has expressed a willingness to debate me on copyright issues sometime in the future, yesterday we both discussed the fundraiser issue on CBC Radio's Ontario Today.  I was interviewed first, followed by Bulte (real audio streams of interviews available at Geist, Bulte not working at the moment).  […]

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January 11, 2006 2 comments News

The Political Parties on Copyright

Not to be overlooked by the Bulte issue is the fact that the major parties have provided some feedback into their views on copyright (many individual candidates have as well – those are posted at Digital-Copyright.ca).  The Canadian Teachers Federation obtained responses from all parties on the education issue and […]

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January 11, 2006 2 comments News

Cause or Effect

With the Bulte story now a week old (I actually blogged about it nearly three weeks ago but it started to pick up steam on new years day), one might think that there is little else to say.  I think there is more because this incident is as much about […]

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January 9, 2006 3 comments News

Crystal Ball Gazing At The Coming Year in Tech Law

Predicting the future of Canadian technology law is challenging at the best of times, but during an election campaign prognostications are admittedly likely to be about as accurate as a coin flip. With that caveat in mind, my weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, freely available version) offers up […]

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January 9, 2006 1 comment Columns