1. Digital lock Exemptions
(News/Citings)

Until recently, ripping a DVD or installing the unapproved iBoobs app on your phone could have landed you in legal hot water. In July, however, the Copyright Office approved six exemptions to the Digital ...

2. Fencing the Digital Horizon: How Government Regulations Threaten Internet Freedom
(Papers/Papers)

... and copyright reform. This thesis examines how changes to Canada's policies over net neutrality and copyright law can affect innovation and expression. This is important because, aided by unprecedented technological ...

3. How Government Regulations Threaten Internet Freedom
(Blog/New Media)

... as part of my masters thesis, explores the issues of copyright law and net neutrality in Canada from a free market perspective.  ...

4. Copyright or Copywrong: Geof Glass on why we need balanced copyright laws
(News/Features)

... breaking the law. Geoffrey Glass is worried that Canada is about to screw up its copyright laws in pretty much the same way the United States did. Glass is a PhD student in the communications program ...

5. The Neutrality Complex: In Search of Free Markets and Neutral Networks
(News/Features)

... solution to this problem. The way forward The first person I talked to was Ken Thompson, Director and Counsel, Copyright and Broadband Law at Rogers Communications. He thinks Canadians should ...

6. Geist on Copyright Reform
(Blog/Copyright)

After two failed attempts to reform Canada's copyright law, the Government of Canada recently completed a process of consulting with Canadians and industry stakeholders over the future of copyright in ...

7. Canadians want a majority government: poll
(Blog/Politics)

... does slow government down to some extent. For example, the Conservatives have so far been unable to enact major changes to Canada's copyright law, which would allow the government to be even more intrusive. ...

8. CTF censored by YouTube?
(Blog/New Media)

... arts festival, their entire YouTube channel was hit with a copyright violation from Business News Network and forced to shut down. Coincidence? Maybe. While the YouTube channel is back online, I have ...

9. Stallman on Copyright Reform
(Blog/Copyright)

The Canadian government has introduced two pieces of legislation in recent years, which would have drastically altered copyright law in this country. While neither piece of legislation made it into law, ...

10. Ubuntu 8.10 Review
(Blog/Linux)

... common multimedia files that are not support out of the box. Many types of audio and video files are not supported natively because of patent and copyright restrictions imposed by the owners of the format. ...