Singapore has enacted new copyright reforms that include the right for teachers to circumvent digital locks on movies for classroom use and for the visually-disabled to circumvent to allow the read-aloud function to work.
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B.C. Police Arrest Man For Pirating DVDs
B.C. police have arrested a man engaged in the production and sale of infringing DVDs.
Precedent Magazine on the Canadian Copyfight
Precedent, a Canadian legal publication, features a cover story on the Canadian copyfight.
Debating Parody Protection in Canada
Howard Knopf has a pair of interesting posts (1, 2) on the absence of explicit legal protection for parody under Canadian copyright law in light of a recent case involving Canwest (case here, report on the case here).
MPAA Wants Obama To Target Canada Over Copyright
The election of Barack Obama has led to considerable speculation about what the change in administration might mean for U.S. pressure on Canada on intellectual property issues. If the MPAA – the lead Hollywood lobbyist – has anything to say about it, the pressure will only increase. Eighteen months after […]
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