While the Canadian Association of Broadcasters has expressed a desire to safeguard Canadian culture, paying for that culture is another matter. The Globe and Mail is reporting that the CAB's members will seek judicial review of the recent Copyright Board commercial radio decision which led to a significant increase in […]
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The Canadian Move Toward Open Access
My weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, freely available version) focuses on the recent message from national science advisor Dr. Arthur Carty who argued that scientific success increasingly depends upon fostering a "culture of sharing" based on open access models of communication that leverage the Internet to disseminate research […]
Canada’s Choice: Copyright, Culture and the Internet – The Podcast
I'm traveling a lot this month speaking about Canadian copyright, culture, and the Internet. The focus of some of my talks is on how Canada need not follow the U.S. example on copyright policy. Rather, it should make its own choices on these issues by adopting forward-looking policies based on […]
Sony, DRM and Canadian Law
Sony's use of digital rights management for some of its CDs (apparently about 20 titles with more to come) has generated a lot of interest over the past couple of days. The issue stems from the installation of a program on the users' computers that is tough to find, difficult […]
A Revealing DRM Story
Barry Ritholtz posts a revealing story on his experience this weekend trying to purchase a copy-controlled CD. As Ritholtz notes, it is difficult to decide which part of the story is stranger – the fact that the band doesn't want its work copy-controlled and did not provide permission for the […]
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