Alternatives to C-61, part II

Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Posted in Information Technology, Intellectual Property | No Comments »

Here's the rest of that post: GOALS The goal of any legislation is to balance concerns of interested but competing parties, and to approach this balance, as much as possible, with a public interest bias. The concerns were these:

Alternatives to C-61: Statutory concerns for the protection and encouragement of creative works

Sunday, August 24th, 2008 Posted in Information Technology, Intellectual Property | 1 Comment »

I want to suggest an alternative paradigm to the statutory regime for creative works as intellectual property, a.k.a. copyright.  I'm not going to get into detailed explanations of the existing Copyleft and other alternative paradigms to copyright.  But I'm going ...

Hedy Fry’s Copyright Balance

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in Intellectual Property, Privacy | No Comments »

The electoral district in which I live is called "Vancouver Centre."  My elected representative is the Honourable Member of Parliament, Dr. Hedy Fry.  Dr. Fry is something of an activist; she has always been an outspoken representative of her constituents.  ...

The “Deliverance” of C-61 Begins

Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in Information Technology, Intellectual Property | No Comments »

Here we go... [UPDATED: Links added] It's been a week since the Minister of Information Industry, Jim Prentice, dropped a piano Bill C-61 on us. Thanks to Prof. Michael Geist, we had some warning: This bill would ...