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 [...]
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 [...]
World Economic Forum Ranks Canada Ahead of U.S. on Intellectual Property Protection:
“While the U.S. and copyright lobby groups continue to propagate the myth that Canada fares poorly on IP protection, it turns out that global business executives see it somewhat differently. If Industry Minister Jim Prentice is serious about addressing Canada’s competitiveness concerns, global [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
