Friends.ca: How You Can Help End Patronage at CBC
On November 15th, the five-year term of CBC President Robert Rabinovitch expires. The Prime Minister must decide if he will follow in the footsteps of his predecessors, or if he will end patronage...
View ArticleMore CopyCamp information
The CopyCamp website has been updated with answers to many questions, providing more information for those thinking of attending this event in Toronto from September 28 to the 30'th. This event will...
View ArticleWriters' Union speaking out, but will they say anything helpful?
With all evidence now looking like a spring election is unlikely, you can expect lobbying efforts to increase until Ottawa actually introduces their promised new copyright legislation.The Writers'...
View ArticleACTRA giving us a fictional performance
Raju Mudhar, Entertainment Reporter for the Toronto Star, reports on the copyright debate.ACTRA has been lobbying for 10 years for the Copyright Act to be updated to ratify the WIPO treaties, because...
View ArticleDAMI©’s platform: Wiping out competing methods of production, distribution,...
Julianna Yau has posted the platform from DAMIC.I am curious what other people think, but it looks to me to be about a fear of modern technology, and an attempt to wipe out alternative methods of...
View ArticleHappy Freedom to Read Week
February 24 through March 1 marks the annual Freedom to Read Week as promoted by the Book and Periodical Council. It is a very well intentioned event meant to educate the public about the dangers of...
View ArticleNo more political fundraisers for lobbyists
From this weeks Hill Times:"Canada's federal Lobbyists Registrar Michael Nelson has delivered a stern warning to federal lobbyists, saying that they "place themselves in jeopardy" of breaching the...
View ArticleParliamentary committee deplores abandoning of Coordination of Access to...
The Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics has released a report which includes:The parliamentary Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics:deplores the fact that,...
View ArticleOld economy vs new economy -- a battle between Canadian business coalitions.
An article by Kathleen Lau for ComputerWorld Canada (29 May 2008) documents that launching of the Canadian Intellectual Property Council (CIPC). The CIPC is made up of 14 Canadian businesses from a...
View ArticleThis Week in Vancouver: Vancouver Fair Copyright's weekly newsletter
The third issue of This Week in Vancouver has been published.It includes the following:Jesse Betteridge and Kris Best conducted a copyright panel at Anime Evolution at UBC, which was a huge success...
View ArticleIs there a copy left vs copy right?
When I first heard a group outside of the Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) or Creative Commons movement use the word "CopyLeft", I thought they were simply using the term incorrectly. (See:...
View ArticleActors reading Copyright fiction from a script + a fact based alternative...
Actors Zaib Shaikh and Wendy Crewson were interviewed for CBC's Power and Politics that aired on November 17'th (time 01:17:00 onward for their interview followed by Minister James Moore).In theory...
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