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Copyright Consultation: Is a copyright consensus, or at least compromise, possible?

Rusell McOrmond - September 6, 2009

You might not know that the Canadian government is holding a copyright consultation. This is, after all, the summer when peole are on vacation or...

Bill C-61 grants new "copyright" related rights to non-copyright related rights-holders?

Rusell McOrmond - August 26, 2009

Many people remark about how similar Bill C-61 is to the USA's DMCA. While Industry Minister Jim Prentice claims that things like the...

Access and use "technological measures" – a legal distinction without a technological difference?

Rusell McOrmond - July 31, 2009

Last Friday I had the opportunity to speak with a lawyer that was trying to understand the differences between "access controls" and "use controls"...

Checking your own copyright moral compass

Rusell McOrmond - February 9, 2009

I just finished listening to "This week in Law" episode 20, which is subtitled "Ethically Cleansed". This is a group of lawyers talking about...

The GNU Affero General Public License and "DRM"

Rusell McOrmond - October 29, 2008

There is an all too familiar dynamic in conversations about copyright. If you disagree with a proposed solution to a problem, such as the...

Use UN day to reflect on mis-interpretations of Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Rusell McOrmond - October 23, 2008

United Nations Day was proclaimed in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly. It is held annually on 24 October, the anniversary of...

Federal Government Secure Channel boondoggle finally being made visible

Rusell McOrmond - October 20, 2008

An article by Kathryn May of The Ottawa Citizen exposes the "Secure Channel" boondoggle. This is the same project that was mentioned...

Welcoming new MPs to a historically consistent Digital Copyright

Rusell McOrmond - October 17, 2008

After the Tuesday election I read how parliament didn't change much. A few parties lost seats, and some gained. When authoring...

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