copyright

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 […]