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Shuttleworth sponsors copyright probe

An ITWeb article by Leon Engelbrecht starts:

[Johannesburg, 6 May 2008 ] - The Shuttleworth Foundation and the Canadian International Development Research Centre will, for the next two years, fund research in eight African countries on the relationship between copyright and education.

CFS position on copyright

Howard Knopf has posted that the Canadian Federation of Students has recently released their own paper on the issue of copyright. Read it here. He is right in his assessment that they argue for a much better balance then what the multinational corporations and foreign governments are trying to get us to adopt.

There is one part of their brief however where I think they still have it wrong. That is on the issue of moral rights.

Ice Road Copyrights

Earlier this week the CBC did an interview with a trucker who was featured in a reality show call "Ice Road Truckers". The show was about truckers who drive nearly 500 KM over ice roads through lakes and tundra in the NWT.

Liberal MP Dan McTeague participates in panel on "Copyright & Intellectual Property Rights and Protection in Canada"

Pickering - Scarborough East MP Dan Mcteague will be participating in a panel (Free Webcast) with some people who are suggested to be "like minded" people. I am posting this so that voters will take a look at that panel, take a look at other things said by this Liberal MP, and decide whether this person represents the views of Canadians going forward.


  • Honourable Dan McTeague, MP, Vice-Chair. Standing Committee on Industry Science & Technology
  • Deane Cameron, President, EMI Music
  • Leslie Ann Coles, Award Winning Film Producer & Actress
  • Giuseppina D'Agostino, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.
  • Graham Henderson, President, Canadian Recording Industry Association
  • Jason J. Kee, Director Policy & Legal Affairs, Entertainment Software Association of Canada (ESAC)
  • Duncan McKie, President & CEO, Canadian Independent Record Production Association
  • Wendy Noss, Acting Executive Director , Canadian Motion Picture Association

Book Piracy To Drive Authors to Extinction. Blog at 11.

In today's Times Online, Tracy Chevalier, of the UK's Society of Authors contends that the threat of Internet Piracy will ruin the book industry just as it has the music industry.

On counterfeiting and piracy

I was reading a Techdirt article about the US Attorney General equating counterfeiting with piracy, and starting thinking about the two.
What is the difference between a "counterfeit" tube of toothpaste and a "pirated" CD ?

Exceptions to the Copyright rule

John Degen, who is a bit of a nemesis to me, (or at least he would be if he acknowledged points of view which were counter to his, rather than simply shades of his own) wrote yet another blog entry recently extolling the virtues of copyright and how good it is that copyright allows authors to provide for their families even after death.

Millions of P2P server/clients

Last Monday MiniNova, a popular BitTorrent P2P site celebrated its 4,000,000,000th torrent download. Yes you counted right, 4 billion. They also claim to have 5 million torrent seeders at a time. They have indexed over 11,000 torrent trackers (which are the other computers that actually facilitate the downloads, thousands of downloads for each tracker)

Who owns the field?

Back in November Deborah Windsor, (Executive Director of The Writers' Union of Canada) and John Degen (Executive Director of the Professional Writers Association of Canada) wrote a letter to the editor of the Hill Times in response to an article penned by Michael Geist in the previous issue.

Creators and "free lunchers" on same side

Today Christopher Moore (no relation) over at the Creators Copyright Coalition discussed the words of a guest speaker at the Access Copyright annual meeting recently, Montreal lawyer Claude Brunet of Ogilvy Renault who represents many of the nation's largest publishers.

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