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

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

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Hart House Lecture Tonight

I am very excited to be delivering the annual Hart House lecture tonight.  While the lecture has sold out, there will be a live webcast along with a future podcast and television broadcast.

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March 30, 2006 Comments are Disabled News

Billboard on Pollara Data

Billboard Magazine weighs in on the CRIA/Pollara data with an article (paywall) this week.  After noting my posting and Pollara's response, it concludes that "it does appear that apathy, according to Pollara respondents, and not downloading, might be the Canadian biz's biggest enemy."  

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March 30, 2006 Comments are Disabled News

Copyrighting Science

I’ve been remiss in posting links to of my two recent works on copyright reform.  Last spring I wrote a report on copyright reform and scientific research for the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee.  The government has now posted Copyrighting Science: Canadian Copyright Reform and the Future of Scientific Research.  The […]

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March 24, 2006 Comments are Disabled News, Scholarship

PM Harper’s Mentor Speaks Out on WIPO

Amid the attention being given to the CRIA/Pollara survey and the CATO report on the dangers of the DMCA, I nearly overlooked an important op-ed from Professor Tom Flanagan, a hugely influential political scientist widely described as Prime Minister Stephen Harper's political mentor.  Professor Flanagan's article, co-authored with Gemma Collins, […]

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March 22, 2006 5 comments News

“Impertinent and Presumptuous”

Pollara, the company that has conducted several surveys on behalf of CRIA (including the CRTC submission), has posted a lengthy 11 page response to my original blog posting (a comment brought the response to my attention as I was unaware of it until this evening).  Pollara suggests that my statements […]

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March 21, 2006 14 comments News