Fair Dealing by Giulia Forsythe (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/dRkXwP

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The Copyright Pledge – 2008 Election Edition

Unlike the 2006 election campaign, when copyright reform issues generated political attention in the Toronto riding of Parkdale-High Park, the current campaign has featured local discussions (here, here, here) but has yet to find its "copyright moment."  That is not to say that copyright has been entirely absent – copyright […]

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September 26, 2008 12 comments News

Campaign Perspectives on Copyright Positions

Kate Scroggins posts a great piece at Carleton's Campaign Perspectives blog on the various party's position on copyright reform.  The key positions: the Conservatives say Bill C-61 "represents where we want to go with copyright reform." the Liberals would make consultations on copyright reform a priority. the NDP would focus […]

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September 26, 2008 4 comments News

Concordia Journal on the Copyfight

The Concordia Journal covers my recent talk and the Canadian copyfight.

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September 26, 2008 Comments are Disabled News

Atwood on Creativity

Margaret Atwood comments on the Harper culture cuts with language strikingly similar to that employed by user groups arguing for fair copyright: Human beings are creative by nature. For millenniums we have been putting our creativity into our cultures – cultures with unique languages, architecture, religious ceremonies, dances, music, furnishings, […]

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September 25, 2008 1 comment News

CMEC Reaffirms Call for Copyright Internet Exception

The Canadian Ministers of Education, Canada have reaffirmed its support for an Internet exception under the Copyright Act, calling on all parties to support such an amendment in any future copyright bill.

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September 24, 2008 1 comment News