The Vancouver Sun ran a story over the weekend on the growing popularity of downloading movies on P2P networks. The article notes that movie swapping is still tiny in comparison to music, but that it may grow in the future.
Fair Dealing by Giulia Forsythe (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/dRkXwP
Copyright
Copyright & Privacy – Through the Technology Lens (Michael Geist et. al.)
Copyright & Privacy – Through the Technology Lens (Michael Geist et. al.), 4 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 242 (2005)
Copyright & Privacy – Through the Copyright Lens (Sarah Deutsch et. al.)
Copyright & Privacy – Through the Copyright Lens (Sarah Deutsch et. al.), 4 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 212 (2005)
Copyright and Faith in the Free Market – Now in the Ottawa Citizen
The Ottawa Citizen features my column which focuses on the Canadian recording industry's rejection of alternative compensation systems on the grounds that it prefers to rely on the free market. The column notes that the industry has been a leading proponent of government involvement, consistently seeking both financial support and legislative intervention.
Copyright Conference Talk Now Online
I recently gave a keynote address at the University of Toronto's Sound Bytes, Sound Rights conference. The talk is titled Canada's Choice: Copyright, Culture and the Internet. The webcast of the talk is now online in Real format.
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