Archive for the 'Copyright/DRM' Category

• 1.25.08 Canada, Copyright & Filtering posted in Copyright/DRM, Internet Censorship

  The Globe and Mail has picked up the story but suggests that filtering for copyright reasons is unlikely:
  “Canadian ISPs have been defiant,” said Mark Tauschek, a senior networks and telecom research analyst with Info-Tech Research Group. “They have refused to co-operate. They have said the Internet is an open network and they aren’t going [...]

• 1.22.08 Canada: Copyright Lobby Wants Filtering? posted in Copyright/DRM, Internet Censorship

  In a meeting with the editorial board of the Ottawa Citizen the Canadian Copyright Lobby indicated at several times that they support ISP filtering. Part of the reasoning is based on the belief that consumers say “if you made it impossible for me, if you stopped me, I would just get on with my life [...]

• 12.12.07 Canadian “DMCA” On Hold posted in Copyright/DRM

  Jim Prentice (Conservative), Minister of Industry, has delayed the introduction of amendments to the Copyright Act that are being called a Canadian “DMCA”.
  The issue has caught fire in personal and consumer blogs on the Internet, led by Michael Geist, the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-Commerce Law at the University of Ottawa.
  The Fair [...]

• 11.5.07 P2P & the Purchase of Music posted in Copyright/DRM, P2P

  In The Impact of Music Downloads and P2P File-Sharing on the Purchase of Music: A Study for Industry Canada researchers found “no direct evidence to suggest that the net effect of P2P file-sharing on CD purchasing is either positive or negative for Canada as a whole.” However, when it comes to the “Canadian P2P file-sharing [...]

• 6.27.06 CDN Gov’t pays Lobby to Lobby posted in Copyright/DRM, Uncategorized

  Michael Geist reports that the Canadian government is giving nearly $400,000 to the Creators’ Rights Alliance (CRA) to produce “research” on on copyright reform. While some of the CRA’s members are small organizations others it also includes organizations that “already employ external lobbyists with millions of dollars budgeted for copyright regulatory hearings and reform.”
  Internal correspondence [...]