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 ...
Of Words, and Acts, and Ministers
Friday, January 25th, 2008 Posted in Legal Explorations, Privacy | No Comments »by Seva Batkin Much has been said about copyright reform in Canada, DMCA, and related topics. Much has also been said about the bland statements of the Hon. Jim Prentice in regards to all the wonderful Hollywood-sponsored goodies that the new ...
DMCA-Free Canada: a land of opportunity
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 Posted in Information Technology, Intellectual Property | No Comments »Technological Protection Measures (TPMs) are the fortresses of code, silicon, and/or law that enforce Digital Rights Management (DRM). By not criminalizing (as a per se offense) the circumvention of TPMs, Canada keeps the doors open to innovation. Period. Innovation is not ...
Copyfight: it’s about use
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 Posted in Communications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | No Comments »Why does the history matter? From Stationers to Sony, it’s about use. In this discussion about the Canadian Copyright Reform Bill, we are really discussing several legal ideas, which though often conflated are subtly different. History demonstrates this conflation through the ...
Copyfight: the roots of the conflict
Thursday, December 20th, 2007 Posted in Communications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | 1 Comment »Here's the irony of the thing: Our copyright regime, in Canada, is rooted in Crown monopoly in the 16th century - a monopoly created by charter to ease the Crown's ability to censor published materials and prevent sedition. ...
Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of Copyfight!
Sunday, December 16th, 2007 Posted in Communications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | 2 Comments »Not discussing the latest Canadian copyright reform bill, or the Canadian DMCA as it has been touted, to kick off weblawg.net would be like Han Solo ignoring his friend in need barreling down the trench of a moon-sized space station. Discussing ...
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