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Then there is the consumer backlash to the proposed Copyright reform bill.
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The Federal government has just launched public consultations intended to lead to a new copyright reform bill.
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If you want a quick catch - up on copyright reform in Canada, take a look at Hansard... [more]
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If you want a quick catch - up on copyright reform in Canada, take a look at Hansard.
While the timing of a new Canadian copyright reform bill remains a mystery, there is little doubt that lawyers will play an important role whenever the successor to Bill C - 60 is unveiled.
In my next SLAW.ca blog, I want to turn the lessons learned here into suggestions for copyright reform for research and scholarship.
The discussion that followed touched a wide range of issues including copyright reform and competitiveness in the wireless and broadband sectors.
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It draws on a historical principle recently cited by Canada's «culture industries,» including Access Canada, in a brief submitted to Parliament on this country's current copyright reform bill.
Ireland has focused on copyright reform as a means to jumpstart its digital economy.
This is especially timely as the Government is committed to implementing a set of copyright reforms recommended by the Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property and Growth in 2011,» explains joint event organiser Professor Martin Kretschmer, Director of CIPPM.
While we support sensible copyright reforms, we will staunchly defend any erosion of creators» livelihoods.»
Indeed, back in 1841, in a debate on copyright reform before the House of Commons in London, Lord Macaulay remarked that copyright «is a tax on readers for the purpose of giving a bounty to writers.»
In the earlier blogpost, I had briefly set out reasons for Canada to be the first nation to use copyright reform to turn its open access research policies into a federally legislated human right to know.
Several copyright reforms have made it possible for copyright owners to cartelize growing swaths of the copyright landscape by establishing «collective societies» who can ask the Copyright Board to certify «tariffs», and then collect those fees.
His research focuses on European copyright law, in particular questions of fundamental rights, transformative works and the current EU copyright reform.
Nina advocates copyright reform and / or broader fair use.
Months after the Supreme Court of Canada delivered a stinging defeat to Access Copyright by ruling for an expansive approach to fair dealing and the government passed copyright reforms that further expanded the scope of fair dealing, the copyright collective responded yesterday with what amounts to a desperate declaration of war against fair dealing.
Copyright reform invariably unleashes a torrent of conferences, workshops, papers, blog postings, and opinion pieces prominently featuring members of the legal profession, whether as advocates, lobbyists, counsel, or independent experts.
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While recent attempts by the usual suspects making hysterical predictions about copyright reform in Canada have been ratcheted up yet again, this time the claims are so outrageous that they can perhaps best be described as having «jumped the shark».
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Despite extensive copyright reform in Canada [5], there is no statutory exemption for judges or judicial proceedings as there is in the UK [6].
The Hill Times reports this week (issue still not online) that the Conservative government will introduce copyright reform legislation this spring provided that there is no election.
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The tech community is worried about the implications of EU's upcoming Copyright Reform, but their warnings have yet to been...
If Canadian copyright reform included broader fair - dealing rights — rights that many think should be adopted, but the Conservatives did not include in their draft bill — that kind of use would have been acceptable.
There have been a couple of decisions in the States, he said, that weren't terribly concerning for publishers, while at the International Publishers Association congress at London Book Fair, we all learned that European publishers are extremely worried about the EU Commission's initial approach proposals for copyright reform.
I no sooner had a minor breakthrough of on my SLAW March 9th, 2018 blogpost — on Twitter and Infojustice Roundup — which proposed copyright reforms to increase public access to research, than I ran head - on into the realpolitik of such legislative measures.
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He has edited a major collection of essays on the future of copyright reform in Canada.
There's been some action and a lot of debate recently on copyright reform in Canada.
Hopefully, these examples will give Canadian politicians pause for thought when it comes time to bring forth a new copyright reform bill.
Building on two earlier consultations on digital copyright reform in December 2006 and April 2008, this latest consultation identified three legislative options: (1) clarifying the threshold for criminal copyright infringement; (2) introducing a specific criminal exemption for parody, satire, caricature, pastiche or similar work; and (3) introducing a fair dealing exception for these types of works...
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Freedom of information and copyright reform were the founding principals of the original Pirate Party when it formed in Sweden in 2006.
The lecture draws on some of my work for CIGI (NAFTA, Innovation) and makes the case that NAFTA negotiations are a problematic place for digital copyright reform, noting the lack of transparency, lost flexibility, and inability to strike a critical policy balance.
It is thus unfortunate that the predominant rhetoric, or discourse, of Canadian copyright reform can barely pretend to be tethered to credible intellectual, empirical, or legal underpinnings.