Post Tagged with: "prentice"

Made Worse in Canada – The Video Version

A recent entrant in the C-61 in 61 Seconds competition.

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August 25, 2008 7 comments News

61 Reforms to C-61, Day 45: Making Available Right and Actual Distribution

Bill C-61 unsurprisingly includes a new "making available" provision that grants performers and sound recording makers the exclusive right to make their works available.  Two provisions establish the making available right in the bill (similar rights are already granted to authors and composers). Section 15 (1.1)(d) provides that a performer's […]

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August 22, 2008 13 comments News

Prentice on Net Neutrality

Julianna Yau posts a response she received from Industry Minister Jim Prentice on net neutrality.

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August 22, 2008 2 comments News

“A One Issue Voter”

David RD Gratton, currently a Conservative, explains that he will not be renewing his party membership due to Bill C-61.

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August 22, 2008 Comments are Disabled News

61 Reforms to C-61, Day 44: ILTs – Notice and Takedown for Search Engines

By far the most problematic aspect of the ILT provision is the creation of a notice-and-takedown system for search engines.  Unlike ISPs – who are subject to the more-balanced notice-and-notice approach – ILTs are effectively subject to a notice-and-takedown system without any of the counter-notification or balancing provisions contained in […]

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August 21, 2008 11 comments News