Canadian Copyright Consultation Launches
The last time Canadians were consulted on copyright related issues was clear back in July of 2001. Back then, by todays standards, file-sharing was still establishing itself, iTunes was two years away from opening, the iPod was three months away from being released for the first time and DRM was practically unheard of in [...]
Canadian Surveillance Legislation Dissected – Bill C-46
The new surveillance legislation in Canada has been causing waves, but today, we are finally able to actually read the legislation for the first time and the two bills contain some interesting provisions. We look at the legislation (Bill C-46 in this article) that has already worried many Canadians.
The bills in question are Bill [...]
Canada Could Face Election – What About Copyright Reform?
It’s distinctly possible that Canada could face an election soon as opposition leader Michael Ignatieff ponders on whether or not to force an election. Whether or not an election actually happens, it’s important for man to look back on the track record on the topic of copyright law reform – we take an in-depth [...]
Landmark Study Concludes That DRM Adversely Affects What We Can Legally Do
It can be called the study that pointed out what many have known all along. DRM has been adversely affecting what consumers can do with their legitimately paid for content. That’s a conclusion drawn by a Cambridge study that many are already reading about.
The study had some interesting conclusions. In the conclusions, [...]
Nokia Thinks a DRM Based Online Music Business Model Will Work
In light of major music stores selling DRM encoded music collapsing, Nokia apparently thinks that they can somehow reverse the trend and make a successful business model out of it. Clearly a large responsible company that knows technology would know how to bring this kind of model to success where tiny little not-too-bright upstart [...]
Broadcasters Fail to Bring Copyright into Canadian National Debates
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 election issue, the broadcasters seemed to have shut the issue out of the national leaders debate entirely.
The underlying idea of a national leaders debate in [...]
Napster 2.0 Could Be Put on the Auction Block
You’d think that with the passage of the Higher Education Act, which forces colleges and universities in the United States to block P2P and promote authorized music stores, that companies like Napster would have it made – obviously, that’s not the case.
It is starting to look like Napster may once again become a symbol in [...]
Canadian DMCA – C-60 and C-61 Compared – The ACTA Backdoor
We continue our series on the Canadian DMCA by comparing the previous legislation under the Liberal government to the new legislation under the Conservative government. In this segment, we compare anti-circumvention legislation – a controversial provision in both bill C-60 and bill C-61.
Previously in our series:
Actual Text – Damages – $500 – $20,000
Actual Text [...]
The Return of the Broadcast Flag
It may be an issue that hasn’t made the headlines in the last four years, but a controversial kind of Digital Rights Management (DRM) appears to be making a return to the spotlight. The broadcast flag has made a return and this time, it appears to be bi-passing regulators altogether.
Stories about the DRM embedded [...]
