Tag: Copyright
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New Paper on Canadian Copyright
Well it seems that 2.05 still on occasion will eat posts… so here is my second run at this… OLDaily spotted Kelly Edmonds new paper (Off with their heads! Copyright infringement in the Canadian online higher educational environment) in CJIT that covers copyright from the Canadian perspective. The article covers current law as well as…
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Daily Show and Colbert Report to stay on YouTube
Well, this is certainly interesting, Viacom has agreed to allow it’s content to stay on YouTube. Could this be thanks to Google? Or are media companies realizing that there is no money to be made if people can’t see things in a convenient manner any more.
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Captain Copyright busted to Private Doh!-boy
I got this on one of my grape vines over the last week. Bruno Beauregard and Greg Pilon, Co-Chairs of Access Copyright received a letter from the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) by Karen Casey (Chair) advising them that there are serious misrepresentations on the Captain Copyright site (that is now “down for…
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Making Cuts – Editing Hollywood movies legally?
According to the website this service will allow users to create custom versions of movies (akin to making stories for those of you playing with DVD Studio) so that you can take out or add elements to a DRMed movie without manipulating the original content. What I think will be useful for schools (if it’s…
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State of DRM in Canada
Thanks to The Gateway, I found an interesting blog post by Michael Geist. Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the U of O and give some solid suggestions as to how Canadians can start looking at copyright and not be swept up the interests of the DRM crowd.