IIPA Demands Canada Be Put on 301 Priority Watch List
The IIPA (International Intellectual Property Alliance) is demanding that Canada be put on the Special 301 priority watchlist. Of course, as with how Canada ended up on the priority ...
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ACTA Falling Apart?
ACTA has been called many things over the years since it was first leaked online, but an all around failure was certainly not one of them until until the last ...
2009 – A ZeroPaid Year In Review – Part 3 of 3
We wrap things up with the last third of 2009. Part one. Part 2.
September
September started off with the continuation of the Jammie Thomas trial where ...
2009 – A ZeroPaid Year in Review – Part 2 of 3
We continue with our 2009 year in review with part two of our three part review. Part one of three.
May
May started off with several stories pretty much ...
2009 – A ZeroPaid Year in Review – Part 1 of 3
2008 was an interesting year in file-sharing and 2009 didn't necessarily disappoint. There was plenty of ways to look at it, but there is one way one can look ...
Canada and the EU Secretly Negotiating One Strike Policy?
While CRIA may be struggling with its ability to maintain a moral standing on copyright infringement, ZeroPaid has learned that Canada and Europe is quietly negotiating their own ...
US to Canada – Fix Copyright and All Trade Problems Will Go Away
It's not a new idea floating around in the Canada/US trade realm, but it is a noteworthy way the United States entertainment lobby pressures Canada on copyright related issues. ...
ZeroPaid Interviews the Pirate Party of Canada
If you asked a file-sharer in, say, 2005, if there would be a political party with a focus on, among other things, copyright and internet rights issues, you were more ...
NDP Makes No Apology for Copyright Stance
The major drama was sparked by a Toronto town hall meeting when it was found out that the copyright industry stacked the deck in their favour. The ...
American Music Group Finds Fair Canadian Copyright ‘Disgusting’
Things are heating up as foreign interests beef up their rhetoric in the last few legs of the Canadian copyright consultation. The American Federation of Musicians responded to ...
Copyright Industry Stacks Town Hall Meeting In Their Favour
It was the second of only two town hall meetings, but it appeared that a vast majority of those in the audience were there to shut out non-copyright industry opinions. ...
Canadian Student Group Voice Their Opinions on Copyright
Among other things, Canadian student union CASA has called for expanding fair dealings and avoiding a blanket anti-circumvention legislation. These groups are the latest additions to an ever expanding ...
ESA Canada – Canadian Gaming Industry Grew Without TPM Law
A recent op-ed in the ongoing copyright consultation in Canada by Danielle Parr of ESA Canada suggests that TPMs prevent piracy and somehow lead to more consumer choice.
Not that the ...
Another Day, Another Call to Expand Canada’s Fair Dealings
Barry Sookman might not like the idea of expanding Canada's fair dealings regime, but the increasingly large chorus of calls have been to expand Canada's fair dealings regime in one ...
Pirate Party of Canada Website Gets a Facelift
While the copyright consultation is taking centre stage at this point in time, quietly rolling along in the background is the Pirate Party of Canada which is gradually picking up ...
The DOC Supports Expanding Canada’s Fair Dealings
Fair dealings is a very hot topic for debate in Canada. While a select few, namely Barry Sookman, don't support any expansion on fair dealings, there is a growing ...
Manitoba Music Industry Association Shuns CRIA Stance on Copyright
It may be history repeating itself. When CRIA pushed for Bill C-60, many Canadian labels who were, at the time, members of CRIA, broke away from the organization, saying ...
Copyright Industry Demands Canada Adopt Three Strikes Law
Copyright industry lawyer and lobbyist for the CMPDA (The Canadian arm of the MPAA) and the CRIA (The Canadian arm of the RIAA) wrote an op-ed saying that it's "Time ...
Canadian Copyright Consultation Submissions Keep Rolling In
There's no shortage of opinion on the copyright debate in the consultation. In fact, if you are able to keep up reading all of the submissions at this point, ...
Is P2P Losing Its Cool In Canada?
There was some recent comments being made at the CRTC hearing by BitTorrent that suggests that p2p user has been going down. Michael Geist discussed the point ...
