In my continuing effort to remake this blog into the “all Canadian copyright, all the time” blog1, here are some links to the latest info:
Since the legislation was introduced, there has been quite the protest surge.
Michael Geist ran a five part series this week trying to outline real world scenarios that illustrate what kind of [...]
I received this response to my “Canadian DMCA” letter from my local MP today:
Dear Mr. McLaren:
Thank you for taking the time to share your concerns about the new copyright legislation introduced by the Conservative government yesterday in the House of Commons. I certainly share many of your concerns and assure you they will [...]
A quick update on the Canadian DMCA.
You can read the text of the bill now.
Reuters has an early write-up that you can read.
Geist also has one, but good luck getting to his site right now. I’ll include one of his five “high level points”:
The digital lock provisions are worse than the DMCA. Yes - [...]
I know you’re tired of it, but I’m going to mention the Canadian DMCA again, since it’s been announced various places that Prentice will be tabling it tomorrow.
There’s some coverage at the National Post, which while using neutral language manages to present the legislation as something harmful to consumers:
The new Copyright Act has been updated [...]
By this point you know the drill. You might be interested in following up with one of the linked organizations, though.
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ORC News | June 3, 2008 | Issue 1.3
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Write to your MP about the new copyright bill: http://www.onlinerights.ca/get_active/copyright_for_canadians/
Dear Online Rights Canada Supporter,
We understand that the government will [...]
Most unexpectedly heartening moment: When I realized that of the twelve final selected jurors, all of whom were given the choice of swearing on a Bible or merely making an oath of affirmation, every last one of them chose the non-faith-based alternative. I did miss the usual irony of seeing people swearing to [...]
Or rather, bitching about my own country’s politicians for a change. It seems like I can’t turn around lately without seeing another story that just embarrasses me as a Canadian.
The classic example, which I’ve talked about here before, is the Tories’ continuing attempt to force a DCMA-style law down our throats. After getting his ass [...]
And once again, we have my quick opinions on a variety of things I’ve run into in the last little while.
I am fascinated with the mystery of what WalMart might be doing in their giant, mysterious data center. I’m guess that it might be related to “lowering prices every day”, but doing so by means [...]
Measure backs ‘American values’ in state schools
Arizona schools whose courses “denigrate American values and the teachings of Western civilization” could lose state funding under the terms of legislation approved Wednesday by a House panel.
SB1108 also would bar teaching practices that “overtly encourage dissent” from those values, including democracy, capitalism, pluralism and religious tolerance. Schools would [...]
Holy “ask and ye shall receive”, Batman!
From the CBC
The National Union of Public and General Employees, which represents more than 340,000 workers across the country, on Friday wrote to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to investigate the practice of “traffic shaping” and its impact on internet users.
“These internet service providers are, with little or [...]
Did you see the news about Bell deciding that it can filter and shape traffic even carried over “wholesale” pipes to ISPs?
Users of the Canadian family-run ISP Teksavvy (which we profiled last year) have started noticing that Bell Canada is throttling traffic before it reaches wholesale partners. According to Teksavvy CEO Rocky Gaudrault, Bell has [...]
Well, it’s another year, and consequently there’s a bunch of new works falling into the public domain.
You can read all about it at copyrightwatch.ca.
Some highly relevant examples to me:
in life+50 countries (like Canada and most of the world) the published works of Dorothy Sayers, Lord Dunsany, Nikos Kazantzakis, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and lots of [...]
I am completely climbing the walls tonight.
I’ll explain why, but it will take a second, so either throw a pizza in the oven (hi Neil!) and settle down, or else skip along to the next entry.
Well, that was a waste of time.
Oh, and irony. (Of course there was already irony and detailed irony.)
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