The Globe and Mail reports that the EU has given the go-ahead for trade talks with Canada. The potential free trade agreement would include a wide variety of provisions including copyright.
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Canadian Music Piracy Claims, Circa 1897
BoingBoing points to a NY Times article from 1897 discussing claims from the U.S. music publisher industry about "Canadian pirates." Earlier this year, I sat on the doctoral committee of Sara Bannerman, who has written a remarkable dissertation that traces the pressure Canada faced on copyright from both the U.S. […]
York University Joins Internet Archive Book Scanning Project
York University has joined the Internet Archive to help scan thousands of public domain books.
BBC Column on ACTA
The BBC runs an updated version of one of my recent pieces on ACTA.
Pirate Bay Demands Retrial Amid Conflict Allegations
A lawyer representing one of the men convicted in the Pirate Bay trial has called for a retrial after reports that the judge was a member of the same copyright protection organizations as several of the main entertainment industry representatives. Judge Norstrom acknowledged to Swedish Radio that he was a […]
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