Yes, Bill C-61. Ashamedly, I feel I haven’t discussed it on here as much as I should. Luckily, Michael Geist has reorganized his entire blog for learning about and engaging the bill’s life ahead. Please check it out until I get something more thorough up here.
Here’s a new user rights video from OpenSourceCinema that [...]
Pay Attention: Canadian remix culture under attack by CDMCA 06.28.08
CBC’s Search Engine is awesome; therefore, cancelled 06.24.08
From Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing:
Last year, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation created a new radio show, Search Engine, to chronicle the shifts being wrought upon global culture and politics as a consequence of technology. It was smart, funny, broke important stories, changed Canadian politics, won awards, and was a global success.
So the CBC cancelled it.
A [...]
Laser printers newest target of entertainment industry 06.05.08
More embarrassments for the copyright corporatists. Cory Doctorow points us to a widely-blogged new study from the University of Washington suggesting flawed and irresponsible use of DMCA “takedown notices” by trade group copyright cartels.
In brief, the new threat to intellectual property is inanimate objects — as three laser printers have achieved sentience and been [...]
Federal Court of Appeal Kills iPod Levy 01.12.08
From MichaelGeist.ca:
While this kills the application of the private copying levy to iPods (subject to a possible appeal by the CPCC), it also means that Canadians who copy music from their CDs to their iPods are not covered by the exception and thus arguably infringe copyright. The issue therefore moves from the Federal Court [...]
Cisco (!) on the Canadian DMCA and the social web 12.14.07
The tremendous mismanagement of the DMCA introduction in Canada by Minister Prentice and the impressive critical and organized response of Canada’s public has garnered the attention of many. Among them, Cisco, for some reason:
No matter what side of this issue you fall on, the reaction demonstrates the power of Web 2.0 to disseminate information [...]
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