The Canadian Film and Television Production Association's copyright consultation submission includes the following comment that warns against targeting P2P as part of copyright reform: The CFTPA submits that it is almost a truism to state that the success of new business models for audiovisual content on the Internet depends on […]
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The Blame Canada Road Show
Rebecca Tushnet liveblogs a "debate" on Canadian IP policy in Washington, DC between recording industry lawyers on both sides of the border. Canada is described as facing a "very dark situation."
Access Copyright: Reduce Fair Dealing, No Taping TV Shows or Format Shifting
The Government continues to post copyright consultation submissions (still lots to go one month after the consultation concluded) with many making for interesting reading. Access Copyright's submission is worth noting for two reasons. First, rather than simply arguing against flexible fair dealing, it argues that the current fair dealing provision […]
Nobel Prize Winner on IP, Open Access and the Public Domain
Elinor Ostrom, this year's Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, has published on intellectual property, open access, and the public domain.
Peer-to-Peer Traffic Declining Dramatically
Wired reports on a new Arbor Networks study that finds a dramatic decline in P2P as a percentage of network traffic over the past two years.
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