p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Speaking of ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), it’s “made it to the floor of the House of Commons yesterday,” blogs MichaelGeist. NDP digital media spokesman MP Charlie Angus “raised concerns about the agreement, the lack of transparency, and questions about whether the recent copyright consultation was little more than...
... Hill organized by Liberal MP Scott Brison. Could copyright reform win Buy American battle? (via MichaelGeist) Previously:Canadian Copyright Consultation submission from Tucows and David ... US pressured Canada to join copyright complaint against China ... MichaelGeist's movie: "Why Copyright? Canadian Voices on ... Canadian copyright consultation -- video explains...
... Hill organized by Liberal MP Scott Brison. Could copyright reform win Buy American battle? (via MichaelGeist) Previously:Canadian Copyright Consultation submission from Tucows and David ... US pressured Canada to join copyright complaint against China ... MichaelGeist's movie: "Why Copyright? Canadian Voices on ... Canadian copyright consultation -- video explains...
Have a listen to the latest TVO Search Engine episode (mp3). Here is the show description. “Industry Minister Tony Clement won’t talk about the secrets of ACTA. Instead, he’s pointed curious critics to MichaelGeist’s website. This week, Michael explains why he’s the wrong man for that job.” Posted in Canada, copyright, FairCopyright, Law, World,...
MichaelGeist has outed the curious special treatment given to SOCAN’s submission to the recent copyright consultation process, which is available only by specific request. If you do request it, you will get it right away delivered by email as an inconvenient non- searchable PDF. From a technical standpoint, this entails a minor sacrifice of privacy and a major compromise in transparency,...
... or at least his estate, which is part of a massive class-action lawsuit against the 'gang of four' of the Canadian Recording Industry Association: Warner Music Canada, Sony BMG Music Canada, EMI Music Canada, and Universal Music Canada. Read the article by MichaelGeist .
We were just talking about how SOCAN, the Canadian copyright collection society, was going after gymnastics clubs for kids using music in their practice routines. Now they're getting some well-deserved attention for other antics. MichaelGeist explains how SOCAN tried to keep its submission to the government copyright consultation secret . The organization apparently requested that its...
... David Basskin, the President and CEO of the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd, via MichaelGeist : "The record labels have devoted insufficient resources to identifying and paying the owners of musical works on the Pending Lists." A group of musicians in Canada have now filed a class-action lawsuit against the Big 4, and the CRIA (Canada's RIAA ), over illegal...
... they , now face potentail damages of up to $6 billion for infringing their own artists copyright! MichaelGeist, University of Ottawa law professor claims that a change to the law in the 1980s created the "pending list." This essentially enables record companies to add tracks to a compilation album without waiting for permissions or making payment. The track simply was added...
We were just talking about how SOCAN, the Canadian copyright collection society, was going after gymnastics clubs for kids using music in their practice routines. Now they're getting some well-deserved attention for other antics. MichaelGeist explains how SOCAN tried to keep its submission to the government copyright consultation secret . The organization apparently requested that its...
You have to love the sheer audacity of the music labels and their "concern" for artists. MichaelGeist has an awesome story from Canada: The CRIA members were hit with the lawsuit in October 2008, after artists decided to turn to the courts following decades of frustration with the rampant infringement (I am adviser to the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic,...
Warner Music Canada, Sony BMG Music Canada, EMI Music Canada, and Universal Music Canada have been hit with a huge copyright infringement suit. Copyright expert MichaelGeist explains, "The CRIA members were hit with the lawsuit [PDF] in October 2008,...
In one of those "you gotta be kidding me moments", the dogged Canadian pursuer of matters online and intellectual, MichaelGeist , blogs that the Cartel (Canadian version) may have pirated as much as CDN 60 billion in recordings. The admitted facts amount to at least $50 million in infringements, but you remember how the Cartel went for "statutory damages" (the maximum...
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... This is a big step forward, one that will hopefully be emulated by all Canadian universities. MichaelGeist – MichaelGeist’s Blog [Geist is the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa. He can be reached by email at mgeist @ uottawa dot ca ] Follow p2pnet on Twitter . More If p2pnet has value for you, help me keep it online....
