Canadian Copyright Board allows downloads, copyright levies
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Canadian ISPs win on copyright ruling
Canadian ISPs win on copyright ruling
06/30/2004 05:35 PMCourt says service providers aren't responsible for cached copies of
music on their servers.
Canadian copyright petition goes to
Parliament
Canadian copyright petition goes to
Parliament
04/08/2005 05:28 AMCory Doctorow:
The
Canadian
Petition for User Rights, a statement signed by hundreds of people
asking the Canadian government to set out its Internet copyright
policies to respect privacy, fair dealing, and due process, was
presented to Parliament yesterday. Congrats to Digital-copyright.ca on
a job well done.
The second petition is signed by several hundred people, Mr. Speaker,
from both Burnaby--New-Westminster and throughout Canada, and focuses
on the Copyright act. Petitioners want this house to maintain the
balance between the rights of the public and the rights of the
creators. They demand that the government not extend the term of
copyright, and preserve all existing users' rights to ensure a vibrant
public domain. The petitioners also call upon parliament to ensure
that users are recognized as interested parties and are meaningfully
consulted about any proposed changes to the copyright act.
Link
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Thanks, Chris!)
Other News: Canadian Copyright Decision
Other News: Canadian Copyright Decision
07/02/2004 10:04 AMCanada's supreme court refuses to force Internet providers to police
copyright for corporate media mammoths.
Keep the public involved in Canadian
copyright legislation!
Keep the public involved in Canadian
copyright legislation!
08/06/2004 07:52 AMWith the Canadian Supreme Court okaying file-sharing and the Canadian
Parliament vowing to "fix" this, it's time to take action. If you're a
Canadian resident, there's a petition to Parliament you can sign to
encourage lawmakers to do the right thing.
THEREFORE, your petitioners call upon Parliament to ensure generally
that users are recognised as interested parties and are meaningfully
consulted about proposed changes to the Copyright Act and to ensure in
particular that any changes at least preserve all existing users'
rights, including the right to use copyrighted materials under Fair
Dealing and the right to make private copies of audio recordings. We
further call upon Parliament not to extend the term of copyright; and
to recognise the right of citizens to personally control their own
communication devices.
Link
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Thanks, Chris!)
Canadian copyfight hots up: Liberal MPs
on the take from copyright industries?
Canadian copyfight hots up: Liberal MPs
on the take from copyright industries?
06/14/2004 09:01 PMCopyright has become an election issue in Canada, and with the federal
election looming on the 28th (I've cast my absentee ballot, for Olivia
Chow, and have my fingers crossed for a nation run as well as Toronto
was under Jack Layton) the copyfight is heating up back in my
homeland. Most recently, a Liberal MP from my old riding of Parkdale
introduced a poorly thought-out bill that would have been bad news for
the Internet. Michael Geist wrote an editorial about this in the
Toronto Star, and the fallout has been intense, with letters going
back and forth in the paper. Michael's written a followup editorial
that the Star just ran.
Further, copyright reform proceedings must also be perceived to be
balanced. According to Elections Canada, Bulte and her riding
association have accepted thousands of dollars in campaign
contributions from rights holder groups and broadcasters.
Parliamentarians involved in the copyright reform process should
refuse all such contributions to ensure that the perception of
absolute impartiality is preserved.
Link
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Thanks, Donna!)
Canadian RIAA calls for stronger
copyright measures than in the US
Canadian RIAA calls for stronger
copyright measures than in the US
08/09/2004 09:33 AMAn anonymous reader writes:
The Canadian Recording Industry Association's call for what is
effectively a notice and termination approach to removing allegedly
copyright infringing material. CRIA's counsel told a Parliamentary
committee
that once an ISP receives notification that a subscriber is offering
copyrighted works for download, the ISP "ought to kick that
subscriber off the system." The approach would be the most radical
worldwide as the proposed removal would presumably come without a
court hearing or other due process. Given that CRIA lost its file
sharing suit in Canada earlier this year, this would appear to be an
end-around the court system by attempting to force ISPs to terminate
subscriber service based on a mere allegation of activity that may or
may not constitute copyright infringement.
LinkCanadian Court Says File Sharers Not
Guilty of Copyright Infringement
Canadian Court Says File Sharers Not
Guilty of Copyright Infringement
04/09/2004 04:06 PM"In other words, just putting files in a computer directory that other
people can access is insufficient an action to constitute illegal
distribution - at least under Canadian law."
Copyright Board of Canada OKs P2P
downloading...for now
Copyright Board of Canada OKs P2P
downloading...for now
12/13/2003 02:36 AMCopyright Board of Canada freezes blank media levies, while also
weighing in on the legality of P2P downloading
Copyright Board Freezes
Music-MediaLevies
Copyright Board Freezes
Music-MediaLevies
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Canada approves P-to-P downloads, levies
MP3 player fee
Canada approves P-to-P downloads, levies
MP3 player fee
12/15/2003 10:30 AMCanadians can legally download peer-to-peer music files, although
uploading them is still illegal, the Canadian Copyright Board ruled
Friday. So long as music is being recorded purely for personal use,
and not being sold, rented or otherwise disseminated to other people,
its use is legal, the board said.
The FCC wants out of copyright
The FCC wants out of copyright
08/06/2004 06:18 PMThe Broadcast Flag regime is, I think, something of an embarassment
for the FCC. Many of the commissioners came to the FCC to deregulate
telecommunications law, not to regulate the electronics industry. Yet
they find themselves in mission creep mode, issuing
command-and-control rules for the design of consumer products,
surely...
Copyright - what right?
Copyright - what right?
10/29/2003 12:09 AMThis slashdot posting was really interesting. its brief look at the
history of copyright, and the misuse of it. Slashdot: Copyright The
scary stuff for...
The Copyright Gap
The Copyright Gap
08/01/2004 03:20 PMHere's the hypothesis: Today's telecom and copyright laws often
regulate similar subjects, but with a big difference. The telecom laws
slightly favor market entrants, while the copyright laws favor the
incumbent disseminators. The result is a "copyright gap" that grows
larger every day....
Ads and Copyright
Ads and Copyright
02/10/2004 02:41 AMNever thought I'd say this, but the Super Bowl got me thinking.
Why shouldn't every advertiser release every print, audio, or
multimedia ad they create under a Creative Commons license? Choose
BY-NC-ND, and make clear you're protecting your trademark. Forget the
cultural effect -- I'm talking pure business: What principle drives
someone to enforce the full copyright in a work they'd normally pay
millions to get in front of people's faces? Isn't it irrational NOT to
free up distribution completely? Or am I missing something?
Copyright chill
Copyright chill
12/25/2003 11:20 PMCNET Asia Dec 25 2003 10:35PM ET
The Tyranny of Copyright?
The Tyranny of Copyright?
01/24/2004 02:49 PMHow Copyright Stifles New Art
How Copyright Stifles New Art
04/12/2004 07:32 PMJD Lasica: The Killing
Fields. In the film, artists, writers, musicians, scientists,
and others parade across his lens. Many of them have been threatened,
sued, fined, and put out of work in the name of copyright. Horowitz
captures it all in a video vérité style popularized by
Michael Moore in Roger & Me and Bowling for Columbine. At various
points, the iconoclastic Horowitz appears on camera, appearing
dumbfounded at the tales of a preschool director who said she received
letters warning that the school could not show videos to her young
charges without a license or hang protected cartoon characters on the
walls without permission. He also interviews members of a Rolling
Stones tribute band who perform under a legal cloud and
husband-and-wife party clowns in Anaheim, California, who were warned
not to create balloon animals for kids that looked too much like
Tigger, Barney, or the Aladdin genie.
Camping out for copyright
Camping out for copyright
04/07/2005 10:12 AMCanadian Press via Canada.com Apr 7 2005 1:58PM GMT
RSS feeds and copyright
RSS feeds and copyright
02/01/2005 08:40 PMThis dumb ass (also known as Martin Schwimmer of Trademark Blog, has a
problem with Bloglines picking up his public RSS-feed and
redistributing it. Because they might at some stage serve ads together
with the content. For those of you...
Copyright in Eight Years
Copyright in Eight Years
08/05/2004 01:50 AMSo today copyright scholar Joe Liu at Boston College asked a room full
of law professors an interesting question. What did we think copyright
would look like in 8 years? Here were some of the main categories of
predictions (some contradict):...
Copyright Out of Balance
Copyright Out of Balance
02/01/2005 09:12 PMCory Doctorow on the disappearance of important documentary films
because filmmakers can't come up with continuing payments for rights
to archival footage. Case in point: The legendary Civil Rights Era
documentary "Eyes on the Prize". Footnote: When I was the CEO of Lotus
in the mid-1980's, the company provided critical...
U.K. copyright law goes into effect
U.K. copyright law goes into effect
10/31/2003 11:41 AMZDNet Oct 31 2003 11:05AM ET
Facing the Copyright Rap
Facing the Copyright Rap
09/09/2004 05:18 AMIncluding snippets of another artist's song in your work -- a popular
rapper technique known as 'sampling' -- may violate copyright law, an
appeals court rules.
Hallowe'en and copyright
Hallowe'en and copyright
10/31/2003 09:37 PMErnie sez, "On Halloween, what is more scary than copyright law? For
example, did you know that the famous vampire movie 'Nosferatu' was
almost lost forever due to copyright? On the other hand the makers of
a Michael Myers Halloween mask won a lawsuit by proving they took the
idea from the movie. Maybe someone can figure out how to get around
pumpkin carving DRM. If not, some ghost pirates (or is that pirate
ghosts?) have a solution for the file sharing problem."
Link
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I Piss On Your Copyright
I Piss On Your Copyright
05/06/2004 12:57 PMA joke that never gets old here in the Deep South: Putting a sticker
of Calvin or someone else peeing on something as a gesture of
disrespect. (05-06)
"US Copyright Office"
"US Copyright Office"
06/03/2004 12:21 PMCan you copyright a typeface under US
law?
Can you copyright a typeface under US
law?
12/26/2004 06:33 PM
Xeni Jardin:
[
NSFNLG warning: Not Safe For Non-LawGeeks.] A
recent post on BoingBoing sparked debate among some readers about
whether or not U.S. copyright law makes it possible to protect
typefaces. Digital music guru
Jim Griffin maintains that
the answer is no. He points to Volume 37 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (
Link) as one
of several portions of US law that back his assertion. Snip from the
text of the law, with his comments:
"The following are examples of works not subject to copyright and
applications for registration of such works cannot be entertained:
(...) typeface as typeface" 37 CFR 202.1(e).
House of Representatives report accompanied the new copyright law when
passed in 1976:
"The Committee has considered, but chosen to defer, the possibility of
protecting the design of typefaces. A 'typeface' can be defined as a
set of letters, numbers, or other symbolic characters, whose forms are
related by repeating design elements consistently applied in a
notational system and are intended to be embodied in articles whose
intrinsic utilitarian function is for use in composing text or other
cognizable combinations of characters. The Committee does not regard
the design of typeface, as thus defined, to be a copyrightable
'pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work' within the meaning of this
bill and the application of the dividing line in section 101." H.R.
Rep. No. 94-1476, 94th Congress, 2d Session at 55 (1976), reprinted
in1978 U.S. Cong. and Admin. News 5659, 5668.
It's also in accordance with a court case that has considered the
matter: Eltra Corp. V. Ringer, 579 F.2d 294, 208 USPQ 1 (1978, C.A. 4,
Va.).
The U.S. Copyright Office holds that a bitmapped font is nothing more
than a computerized representation of a typeface, and as such is not
copyrightable:
"The [September 29, 1988] Policy Decision [published at 53 FR 38110]
based on the [October 10,] 1986 Notice of Inquiry [published at 51 FR
36410] reiterated a number of previous registration decisions made by
the [Copyright] Office. First, under existing law, typeface as such is
not registerable. The Policy Decision then went on to state the
Office's position that 'data that merely represents an electronic
depiction of a particular typeface or individual letterform' [that is,
a bitmapped font] is also not registerable." 57 FR 6201.
Link to previous BB post.
Are you a Copyright Criminal?
Are you a Copyright Criminal?
09/20/2004 09:08 PM
Xeni Jardin:
BoingBoing reader
Robert
Daeley says, "Came across this picture on the wall just behind a
copy machine. All the hackers I know wear ski masks when they commit
their crimes. Oh, and big thick leather gloves are great for typing."
Link<
/a> to blog post with pointer to full size image. Mwuhuhahahahaaaaaaa.
3G Copyright Heavyweights
3G Copyright Heavyweights
02/10/2004 06:56 AM
3G Feb 10 2004 9:46AM GMT
on a 95 year copyright
on a 95 year copyright
03/06/2004 01:51 AMDouglas Keenan has a
nice short
piece about "limited times" and a 95 year copyright.
How not to be a copyright putz
How not to be a copyright putz
08/11/2004 05:14 PMDan Gillmor lists the ways his book is making its way into our
intellectual bloodstream. Go Dan! Go We the Media! Here's an interview
of Dan by Xeni Jardin....
Iraq's copyright law
Iraq's copyright law
05/21/2004 02:14 PMJamie Knox sent along Iraq's newly amended copyright law (as if THIS
was where we needed to worry about rule of law in Iraq). I've just
begun going through
it, but there are favorite tidbits so
far: collections of data can be protected; readings of the Koran are
protected; and collections of government documents can be protected.
But significantly, the term is life plus 50! More disharmony...
The Copyright WebQuest
The Copyright WebQuest
09/07/2004 05:15 AMThe Copyright WebQuesthttp://www.edsupport.cc/mguhlin/artifacts/consulting/copyright/To develop an understanding of copyright law and how it
applies to you, you need to develop a thorough understanding of what
you are allowed to do under copyright, and, what you are not allowed
to do. One way for you to get there is to critically analyze a number
of copyright scenarios and discuss them from multiple perspectives.
That's your task in this exercise. If you're short on time, patience,
or want to try a different way, you may want to review the
presentation and then take the online
quiz. This has been added to
Reference Resources
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Student Research Subject
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Copyright messages
Copyright messages
12/02/2002 01:17 PMCopyright Basics
Copyright Basics
07/01/2004 07:02 AMa good introductory reference
Copyright and attribution
Copyright and attribution
12/17/2004 06:33 PMCrooked Timber has a post today on
copyright and
attribution that cites Creative Commons:
In short, the informal economy of academic attribution is
much more like the kind of alternative economy that, say, Creative Commons
is trying to create than it is like the copyright industry. Academics
are usually happy when others rip, remix or even parody their work -
as
long as the remix artists acknowledge them by name. Similarly, the Creative
Commons licenses now include a requirement for attribution as standard
(it used to be optional, but 97-98% of Creative Commons users wanted
it
in their licenses, so that the CC crowd decided that it was easier to
make it the default). The requirement that people not plagiarize (i.e.
that they not use others’ work without attribution) presents no
problems whatsoever for ‘free culture.’
Wagner on copyright
Wagner on copyright
02/13/2004 03:58 PMMitch Wagner's written a very lucid essay about DRM and file-sharing
that strikes me as one of the better formulations of the problem that
I've seen to date.
It's rather appropriate that the logo for Disney is a mouse, because
The Walt Disney Company this week announced its intention to throw
money down a rathole. Disney became the latest company to license
Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology. DRM doesn't work and
consumers don't want it, so of course it's very appealing to big
business, who are also in a big rush to sell other, equally practical
products, such as anchovy flavored ice cream and bicycles with square
wheels.
LinkMoving and Copyright
Moving and Copyright
07/16/2004 01:53 AMWe're moving our offices to San Francisco tomorrow. I'm packing
boxes. Just noticed that our Fellowes brand cardboard file boxes carry
a copyright notice: (c) Copyright 2001 Fellowes, Inc. Sure am glad
they included that. Was about to pirate.
"The Tyranny of Copyright?"
"The Tyranny of Copyright?"
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