The news is full of ISPs being asked/required to play a larger role in P2P – Japan's ISPs adopt a three strikes and you're out approach to subscribers engaged in file sharing, Sweden rejects that approach in favour of one that requires ISPs to disclose subscriber information to rights holders, […]
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Moore on Brunet
Christopher Moore blogs about Claude Brunet's keynote at the Access Copyright annual meeting. While I obviously strongly disagree with the characterization of the Fair Copyright for Canada Facebook group, Moore's emphasis on contract rather than copyright is an important issue that is too often overlooked.
Katz on Collectives
University of Toronto law prof Ariel Katz embarks on an important research project on copyright collectives.
Toronto Star on a Cut-and-Paste Novel
The Toronto Star reports on Graham Rawle's Woman's World, a novel consisting of 40,000 text fragments.
CMEC On Fair Dealing
The Council of Ministers of Education, Canada has published its third bulletin on copyright reform, this time explaining why it believes fair dealing is insufficient for its needs and that an Internet exception for education is the better approach. The bulletin highlights again how CMEC and its allies have failed […]
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