copyright
Things to be afraid of: like Canada’s upcoming copyright bill
Canada hasn’t updated the copyright act in many years. Not for lack of trying. But it so happens that various amendments of varying quality by various governments have died on the order books in the course of various elections. In fact Canada has not yet acted on the US-led WIPO anti-piracy treaty (complete with DRM [...]
Copyright betrayals and failure of politics
Rob Hyndman has the sad story, very well put on his blog today: Patry No Longer on Copyright
Smartest idea they’ve had in a while
The Motion Picture Association of America has tried any number of tactics to fight piracy, but its latest scheme might actually prove useful to movie consumers on the Internet. The group is supposedly working on a new website that will offer information on how to find legit sources of movies so that users won’t have [...]
How the new Canadian Copyright bill fails Canadians
As reported everywhere, Canada’s industry minister introduced a new copyright bill yesterday. And it’s no good. However, assuming we need “reform” at all, there are simple changes that could go a long way to fixing it.
The most important of these would be a qualifier on “anti-circumvention”. In the current bill, any circumvention is automatically an [...]
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