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As Michael Geist and others have pointed out, ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement without the main sources of counterfeits b...

Although ACTA has now been referred by the European Commission to the European Court of Justice, it continues its passage through the va...

Along with death and taxes, one of the other certainties in life is the constant flow of reports from the media industries claiming that cop...

Something strange is happening at the WIPO: it's becoming more reasonable. Where once it was a bastion of intellectual monopoly intransi...

As I and many others have noted, the current negotiations over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) are, on the one hand, shrouded...

Over on the Open Enterprise blog, I have been extolling the virtues of James Boyle's new book, The Public Domain . I still urge you to...

Michael Geist has been warning about this for a while, and now the beast is out : Today the Government of Canada introduced long-overdue and...

Some impressive official stats about open source use in Canada: "Open source" software is rising in popularity, according to surv...

The Hill Times this week includes an astonishingly misleading and factually incorrect article on Canadian copyright written by Microsoft. So...

Imagine : A newly study commissioned by Industry Canada, which includes some of the most extensive surveying to date of the Canadian populat...

Here's Wikipedia's info about the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP): a project for the creation of a virtual librar...

When are these people going to get a clue ? Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) president Dan Glickman is today lobbying UK film mi...

Meanwhile , back in the real world: The Government has proposed a change to the damages available under the Copyright, Designs and Patents ...

That's user-created content to you. A big, rather dry, but useful report on said. (Via Michael Geist .)

A superb example of how cavalier proponents of intellectual monopolies can be with figures: Leaving aside the rhetoric, what is particularl...

An interesting list of works that have come into the public domain this year - in some places, depending on how idiotic the term of copyrig...

This is rather impressive in its way: The TAB is owned by GateHouse Media, a newspaper conglomerate that owns 75 daily and 231 weekly newsp...

One of the ideas that I've been banging on about on this blog is the commonality of the commons - how entirely disparate areas like open...

I barely dared hope that the recent events at WIPO marked a significant moment, but here 's someone rather better qualified than I am t...