Angus: Debate WIPO agreement before introducing new Copyright bill
A press release from Charlie Angus (Timmins James Bay) stated that the Conservative government should open a debate on the 1996 WIPO treaties before tabling implementing legislation. Given how much...
View ArticleFirst WIPO Development Committee Meeting Begins
William New BLOGS on ip-watch.org about "The “historic” first day of the new World Intellectual Property Organization Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP)". Meetings Mar 3, 2008 to...
View ArticleWhat's up at WIPO?
There is an interesting trend with WIPO that is interesting to observe. A recent article by William New for Intellectual Property Watch talks about the WIPO Copyright Committee begins a new era with a...
View ArticleUse UN day to reflect on mis-interpretations of Universal Declaration of...
United Nations Day was proclaimed in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly. It is held annually on 24 October, the anniversary of the coming into force of the UN Charter on 24 October 1945. 2008...
View ArticlePandora, Radio, and copyright laggards...
People in many countries reading an article by Nate Anderson in Ars Technica about radio vs netcasting may be confused by the statement that, "rightsholders have turned their eyes in recent years to...
View ArticleIs Canada trying to block a WIPO treaty for blind people's access to written...
As the headline suggests I've become skeptical of the wide reporting of Canada's involvement in trying to stop a WIPO treaty that would facilitate grater access for blind people to written material. I...
View ArticleCopyright Consultation: WIPO treaties.
There 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...
View ArticleWIPO supporters must oppose ACTA / move ACTA to WIPO?
Yesterday I authored, printed, signed and sent through snail-mail a letter to Peter Van Loan, Minister of International Trade. It was in reply to a reply letter he had written me earlier on ACTA, the...
View ArticleIf lawyers are confusing copyright with other laws, what about the rest of us?
A tweet from lawyer Barry Sookman (who has also blocked me, BTW), referenced an article with Further Copyright talk. At the end the author, Todd, said:So is circumventing a TPM (even for legal...
View ArticleMoore has his facts wrong on Copyright
Author, broadcaster, editor, journalist, musician, negotiator, singer, and MP Charlie Angus has released a letter to Heritage Minister James Moore discussing how the Minister has his facts wrong on...
View ArticleCharlie Angus tables petitions concerned about digital locks
From the Hansard for October 18, 2010Mr. Charlie Angus (Timmins—James Bay, NDP):Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to bring forward a petition from people who are concerned about the misuse of digital rights...
View ArticleProgress or distraction on limitations and exceptions at WIPO?
According to a WIPO press release:An unprecedented initiative to facilitate access to published works by the visually impaired and the print disabled was announced on October 23, 2010 in New Delhi,...
View ArticleStanding Committee on Copyright and Related Rights : Twenty-First Session
The Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) is not the Canadian parliamentary committee that will be studying Bill C-32. It would be great if Canada did have a SCCR, as this would...
View ArticleNot so special 301 report
The yearly joke from the USTR of their so-called "Special 301 report" came out yesterday. Not surprisingly, they kept Canada on their Priority Watch List in order to keep up their special interest...
View ArticleWIPO's World Intellectual Property day ideal for discussing WIPO failures
Each year WIPO declares April 26'th as their "World Intellectual Property Day", and I consider this to be an ideal time to hilight the harm that WIPO's narrow-minded policies cause to creativity and...
View ArticleCanada has ratified WCT and WPPT
While we knew this was coming, Canada has officially ratified the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty.This doesn't mean Canadian law can't be fixed when it comes to...
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