VKI Studios, a B.C. based Internet marketing firm, reviews CRIA's Balanced Copyright for Canada site, highlighting the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Fair Dealing by Giulia Forsythe (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/dRkXwP
Copyright
Copyright Board Issues Commercial Radio Decision
The Copyright Board of Canada issued the long-awaited commercial radio decision on Friday. Commentary from Howard Knopf, FYI Music, and the Wire Report. FYI Music also offers a glossary of the various players.
Brazil’s Approach on Anti-Circumvention: Penalties For Hindering Fair Dealing
“The proper balance among these and other public policy objectives lies not only in recognizing the creator’s rights but in giving due weight to their limited nature. In crassly economic terms it would be as inefficient to overcompensate artists and authors for the right of reproduction as it would be self-defeating to undercompensate them.”
Brazil recently unveiled its much anticipated copyright reform proposal and it provides a statutory example of applying this principle. Article 107 includes an interesting balance to legal protection for digital locks.
Greens/EFA Call for ACTA Transparency
The Greens/EFA group of Members of the European Parliament have issued an urgent appeal to retain transparency in the ACTA negotiations. The MEPs protest the decision to backtrack from releasing draft texts following last week’s meeting in Switzerland.
The ACTA Timeline: An Update
Last December, I posted a timeline of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, with links to developments tracing back to 2004. With the ninth round of talks now concluded, I’ve updated the timeline with new links, documents, and videos from the past six months. The ACTA Timeline on Dipity.
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