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Copyright

The ISP Copyright Consultation Questions

Mediacaster posts the questions pertaining to ISPs that have been posed as part of the forthcoming copyright consultation. These include notice-and-takedown, ISP liability, and a making available right. The full consultation launches on Monday.

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July 17, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

Groups Call on U.S. Government To Drop Internet From ACTA

A coalition of leading library, civil rights, and technology companies have written to the U.S. government to urge it to drop the Internet provisions from the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.  With talks set to resume this week, Jamie Love reports that Canada has produced another secret document, Japan has developed an […]

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July 16, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

No Place for State in our Hard Drives?

Just ahead of the copyright consultation, Kris Kotarski writes an op-ed for the Calgary Herald focusing on intrusive copyright laws.

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July 16, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

The Forthcoming Copyright Consultation – An Update

CBC and Billboard provide some additional coverage of the copyright consultation to be announced next week.  Word is that the roundtables will begin immediately with at least two planned next week in Vancouver and Calgary with more to follow across the country.  The first is apparently scheduled for the Vancouver […]

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July 15, 2009 Comments are Disabled Stop CDMCA

The Forthcoming Copyright Consultation – An Update

CBC and Billboard provide some additional coverage of the copyright consultation to be announced next week.  Word is that the roundtables will begin immediately with at least two planned next week in Vancouver and Calgary with more to follow across the country.  The first is apparently scheduled for the Vancouver […]

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July 15, 2009 10 comments News