A proposal floated at the Canadian Telecom Summit by the Canadian Jewish Congress would give ISPs the power to remove pornography and hate speech “at their own discretion”. Despite the fact that finding content to be illegal takes a ” lengthy court process” Bernie Farber, chief executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress, suggests that “[i]t [...]
June 15th 2006 
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A spoof site of Australian Prime Minister John Howard was shut down due to presure from the government. The closure is reportedly due to a phone complaint from the PM’s office to the Melbourne IT Ltd (http://www.melbourneit.com.au/) the domain registrar for the website johnhowardpm.org. The compaint contended that the parody website was a “phishing” site, [...]
CTV’s “Ask Us”, (video clip here) tries to answer a question from a viewer regarding copyright in Canada:
“When I was going to university a professor of mine said it’s legal to download music in Canada because the music industry is already compensated for their loss through taxes on blank CD’s and cassettes. Is this [...]
April 30th 2005 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage re-introduced the Interim Report on Copyright Reform suggesting that reform is neccessary for Canada to comply with WIPO. digital-copyright.ca outlines the major proposed changes including the adoption of a “notice and takedown” approach to copyright violations and holding ISP’s liable (unless they act as true “intermediaries”) for copyrighted material [...]
November 10th 2004 READ MORE Comments Off
The Athens 2004 website carries a lengthy statement on their “Hyperlink Policy”. The Policy states that for “your protection and ours” one must send a “request letter” containing a brief description of your website, the reason for linking and the period of time you intend to link for. After (e)mailing the request [...]
September 4th 2004 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
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