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Copyright Consultation: WIPO treaties | Enterprise Insights
Copyright Consultation: WIPO treatiesThere are now only 5 days left to make your voice heard on this critically important issue. In recent years two different governments tabled copyright bills: the Liberal Bill C-60 on June 20, 2005 and the Conservative Bill C-61 on June 12, 2008. Note: Similar numbers only coincidence. When looking at these [...]
Dumb! Blank CD levy rises by almost 40 per cent
This annoys me! The Canadian Government is so out of touch and increasing the levy on CDs makes absolute no sense. Have you seen how much space is allocated in stores like Future Shop and HMV for Music CDs? The space has been relegated to mostly DVDs and the government charges no levy on them [...]
Microsoft launches Windows Azure
LOS ANGELES–Microsoft on Monday announced a version of Windows that runs over the Internet from inside Microsoft’s own data centers. Dubbed Windows Azure, it’s less a replacement for the operating system that runs on one’s own PC than it is an alternative for developers, intended to let them write programs that live inside Microsoft’s data [...]
Letter From Jim Prentice – Bill C-61 Canadian DMCA
You should be able to do whatever you want with the media you buy…. I am going back to tape cassettes and LPS. I was surprised to received a form email from Jim Pretince, Ministry of Industry of Canada, trying to explain how good Bill C-61 is. This is very odd and not sure how [...]
Send A Letter To Harper, Prentice & Verner And Stop The Canadian DMCA
New laws will be passed by the Canadian government which will effectively OUTLAW the use of modchips and flash carts, among other things. Please go here to see how you can change this. This needs to be stopped. Click on the image to complete the online form to stop this nonesense! I have had enough [...]
Report Says Canadian DMCA To Include $500 Fine Per Download
Link to Michael Geist Article – This just can’t be any good. The National Post reports that the Canadian DMCA, which may be introduced tomorrow, will include a “personal use download” fine of $500. The front page story indicates that the fine (presumably a new form of statutory damage award) could be awarded on a [...]
The real ACTA threat (it’s not iPod-scanning border guards)
An interesting, yet scary, take on the ACTA treaty currently being negotiated. Drafting treaties in secret, especially when they concern new crackdowns on intellectual property violations, is a bit like rolling around in red meat, stuffing your pockets with raw hamburger, and jumping into a shark tank; reaction in both cases is likely to be [...]
Canada is going to let them destroy my Ipod. What’s the Deal With ACTA!
This is starting to bother me. Are we going to let this orwillian copyright law actually pass? Like the softwood lumber dispute, the US could possibly impose fines in the form of tarrifs, etc if Canada does not comply with the ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ) agreement. I have a real problem with a Canadian [...]