Are there benefits to “piracy”?
Thursday, November 6th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Video Games | 1 Comment »The pro-copyright, pro-DMCA, anti-counterfeit lobby groups would have you believe that all unauthorized reproduction (and distribution), colloquially known (inaccurately) as piracy, is horrid for the industries concerned, and is destroying them. They go so far as to call it theft, ...
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 ...
Michael Geist lauds CRIA; jeers RIAA’s “hassle” policy
Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in Intellectual Property | 1 Comment »The difference between commercial piracy and private copying was clear in the Copyright Act's s.80, it was made clearer by BMG v. John Doe, and now we can see the difference in action. Professor Michael Geist compares the RIAA's ...
EULAs aren’t all bad
Monday, January 7th, 2008 Posted in Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Virtual Worlds | No Comments »End-User License Agreements aren't all bad. They are necessary for interration - that incorporation-like thing for virtual worlds that Castronova talks about - in order to set out and delimit the game space. It is when they violate ...
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 ...
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