Michael Geist may have uncovered one of the most revealing pieces about the copyright lobby in Canada. Said Geist about the Board's report, "this work would face possible plagiarism ...
Recently, the copyright industry has been using international means to pressure Canada into copyright reform. Since the accusations by the copyright industry are that Canada's copyright laws are the ...
How far are the copyright lobbyists willing to go to bully Canada into copyright reform? It appears as though the copyright industry is now attempting to obstruct a free ...
A few days ago, we highlighted the USTR Special 301 report and briefly mentioned how Canada was put on a priority watchlist. Now, it's starting to look ...
Looks like the music industry has been battling the problem for over a century now.
An article from the June 13th, 1897 edition of the NY Times gives a curious backstory ...
New statistics from the copyright industry was released recently, but with all of the claims on how music sales are falling, comparing one statistic from Canada and one statistic from ...
Ontario-based Cogeco responds to criticisms by customers who soon face download caps as low as 10GB and charges of up to $2.50 for each GB of data downloaded that exceeds ...
Jesse Browns Search Engine on CBC covered a very interesting topic recently. The growth of bandwidth consumption went down 45% in Canada recently.
As Michael Geist is ...
Many observers who take particular interest in Canadian issues surrounding copyright might find this to be a broken record, but a copyright lobby group is, once again, demanding that Canada ...
Says that because the site had advertising, it is an illegal website.
In a report that has, thus far, remained almost exclusively a French story to date, a French film director ...
The Canadian government made signals that it wants to reintroduce the modernization of investigation techniques which brought forth the infamous “lawful access” provision. Is this a good idea when ...
Just about everything is quick on the internet unless you're a Canadian and have a complaint about a telecommunications giant.
For those who thought that the new complaints commission in Canada ...
Canada was headed into political uncertainty with copyright legislation being successfully pushed under the rug throughout the election this year. For those hoping for a minority government to stop ...
Hundreds of thousands of Canadians have had copyright on their minds as they went into the current election. In spite of a major grassroots movement to make copyright an ...
Making copyright an election issue has been largely an underground movement. That could change in later legs of the Canadian election if meetings as scheduled in Calgary continue.
Can copyright ...
The Prime Minister of Canada is reportedly hinting at calling an election. If an election is called, history could repeat itself and have the Canadian DMCA die on the ...
You know competition is almost non-existent when one 'competitor' can decide what other competitors can and cannot do in the market.
Just when Bell thought the controversy and bad publicity around ...
Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) hasn't been getting many headlines these days, but that could change - at least in Canada. The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) ...
There's a new conspiracy theory afloat online alleging the death of the internet as we know it. The theory suggests that ISPs in Canada are attempting to make Canada ...
In the United States, warrantless wiretapping has effectively become legalized for now. In Canada on the other hand, a wiretap without court approval is virtually unheard of. This ...
