Canadian DMCA Brought Before Parliament
Jim Prentice, the Minister of Industry – along with Joseé Vernier, Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Status of Women – introduced Bill C-61 on June 12th, 2008. Mr. Prentice had delayed introducing...
View ArticleMichael Geist to answer questions from Canadians on Reddit
Michael Geist, law professor and Canadian expert on copyright and intellectual property issues, will be answering questions regarding those topics on the social networking site Reddit. Geist is well...
View ArticleMichael Geist is answering your copyright questions on Reddit right now.
Head to Reddit to ask questions of and read answers from Canadian Law Professor Michael Geist!
View ArticleThis is what astroturf looks like. Don’t let them succeed.
Astroturf is a pretty nasty thing – it happens when big industry wants to get their point across, but they know they’re not landing their message from a corporate PR standpoint. So instead, they create...
View ArticleJames Moore: tweet nothings in my ear.
James Moore tweeted that several of his co-workers had joined the iPad nation. I asked him how they were going to feel when they found out he wouldn’t let them rip DVDs they own to watch on their iPad....
View ArticleDVDs and Digitial Locks: Fix Bill C-32
It’s a simple equation really: I own hundreds of movies and games, thousands of books, and an uncountable number of CDs. I am not something rare in Canada, I am common: I am a media consumer. Bill C-32...
View Article2 more reasons Bill C-32′s Digital Locks have to go.
The digital locks provision in Bill C-32 is anti-consumer and it has to go. Here’s a rough transcript of the video above: Hello! Graham here again with a bit more on Bill C-32. I just wanted to say...
View ArticleWhat a difference a year makes.
MP James Moore seems to be angry. He has begun lashing out at people–the self-same people he wanted to work with only a year ago. He is claiming that we don’t know what we’re talking about, that we...
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