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Copyright

Grokster and the Future of P2P

As many readers will have heard, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Grokster earlier today (Souter opinion, Ginsburg concurrence, Breyer concurrence).

I'm participating in a discussion of the decision at the Wall Street Journal online (free access for roundtable). My initial take and posting is:

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June 27, 2005 Comments are Disabled News

Bill C-60 A Missed Opportunity

My regular Law Bytes column (freely available hyperlinked version, Toronto Star version, homepage version) examines Bill C-60, Canada's new copyright reform bill. I argue that the bill represents a missed opportunity.

While some of provisions strike an admirable balance, those that are ostensibly designed to facilitate technology-based education and the digital delivery of library materials fall far short of their goal by hobbling any new rights with suffocating restrictions that render the provisions practically useless.

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June 27, 2005 Comments are Disabled Columns

Ottawa Citizen on Bill C-60

The first major newspaper masthead editorial on Bill C-60 is out and it is a good one (letters to the editor can be sent from here). The lead editorial in today's Ottawa Citizen, which is titled "Copyrights and Wrongs", leaves little room for doubt about its perspective.

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June 24, 2005 Comments are Disabled News

P2P and Privacy

In recent weeks, the Canadian Recording Industry Association has made several public statements about peer-to-peer file sharing and privacy. In letters to the editor criticizing the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC), both Graham Henderson and Richard Pfohl have declared that P2P services constitute "the number one threat to privacy on the Internet."

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June 24, 2005 1 comment News

Coldplay and Copyright

I spent nearly three hours this morning doing a CBC syndication wheel. For those that are not familiar with this, you sit in a room and CBC radio stations from across the country take turns calling you for six minute interviews all of which feature the same opening but often veer off in different directions.

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June 23, 2005 1 comment News