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 […]
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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.
Patry Talk Today At U of Ottawa
Bill Patry, Google's senior copyright counsel, will be giving a talk at 5:00 today at the University of Ottawa, Fauteux Hall.
CRTC Calls For Expanded Copying For Private Use
The Government is still in the midst of posting copyright consultation submissions. Yesterday it posted a notable response from the CRTC yesterday. While it was somewhat surprising for the Commission to participate in the consultation, it used the opportunity to focus on three issues – tariff setting for radio, streamlining […]
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