The Contrarians ran a good program on copyright today (I was among the guests interviewed). You can catch it again on Wednesday at 7:30 pm. Update: An MP3 version of the program is now online.
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Copyright
RCMP Lays Charges Over Karaoke Copyright Infringement
And they actually thought it warranted a press release.
WaPo on the RIAA
Steve Pearlstein, a Washington Post business columnist, calls for "pruning of overgrown copyright laws."
Canadian Copyright Lobby on G-8 IP Statement
The Canadian copyright lobby, including CAAST, CRIA, CMPDA, and several others, have issued a release congratulating the government on the G-8 statement on intellectual property issues. The release (which I can't find online) says that the associations support the statement and look "forward to the Canadian government fulfilling these commitments […]
Dutch Appeals Court Refuses to Disclose File Sharers Identities
When CRIA lost its file sharing lawsuits against 29 alleged file sharers in 2004, it immediately characterized Canadian law as out-of-step with the rest of the world and dismissed the privacy-related concerns that arose from the case. Two years later, The Register brings word that the Netherlands appears to be […]
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