My regular Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, freely available version) notes that with House of Commons now back to business, a parliamentary committee will be formed in the coming weeks to conduct hearings on Bill C-60. While much of the public' s attention in recent days has focused on […]
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The Onion, CRIA Edition
While we were participating in a great launch of In the Public Interest, CRIA was across town promoting two new surveys that seek to link seemingly all teenager problems and recording industry woes with file sharing. It is tempting to conduct a detailed analysis on how off-base these two new […]
In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law Published
I am delighted to report that In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law has been published and is now available for purchase or free download under a Creative Commons license (I should note that all royalties will be donated to Creative Commons). I have great hopes for […]
Positionless at WIPO
As Jamie Boyle points out in a masterful piece in the Financial Times, this week (likely Wednesday), the World Intellectual Property Organization will move forward on a controversial Broadcasting Treaty by calling for a meeting later this year to negotiate a near-final text followed by a diplomatic conference sometime in […]
The Canadian Path To Google Print
The decision by the Author' s Guild to sue Google over its Google Print initiative is obviously the story of the week. I' ve stayed quiet on this primarily because there have been some great postings (Lessig, von Lohmann, Band, Crawford, and Google' s own response among them) that say […]