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Supreme Court copyright ruling is (amazingly) sensible

07/12/2012 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By John Klein (aka Saskboy) Today’s Supreme Court of Canada ruling on copyright and fair dealing contains some not-so-small victories. In fact, there is so much common sense in it that I can’t help but feel the justices have taken leave of their old-people senses! Copyright expert Michael Geist has this summary: “[…] The clear […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: books, Canada, copyright, education, internet, music, online music, open, Supreme Court of Canada, universities

The Province’s big, gooey Enbridge mess

06/29/2012 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Frank Moher Now that we know just how much financial trouble Postmedia is in (see here, and here, and here), the question becomes: How well are they going to balance journalistic and money problems as they attempt, pell-mell, to transition to a digital-first strategy? On the basis of the Vancouver Province/Enbridge-parody furor, the answer […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: advertising, Canada, CBC, copyright, Enbridge, newspapers, Pacific Newspaper Group, Postmedia, The Province, Vancouver Sun

Cartoonist: Enbridge parody pulled on orders from Postmedia

06/27/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher The cartoonist whose animated parody of an Enbridge ad was removed from the website of Vancouver’s The Province on Friday says the newspaper was told to take it down by a Postmedia executive, after Enbridge threatened to pull $1 million in ads from the company. “It was up for awhile,” Dan Murphy, […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: advertising, Canada, CBC, copyright, Enbridge, newspapers, Postmedia, The Province

Vancouver’s Province pulls animation satirizing Enbridge

06/25/2012 by backofthebook.ca 7 Comments

Update: Cartoonist: Enbridge parody pulled on orders from Postmedia executive The Vancouver Province has pulled from its website an animation created by its editorial cartoonist, Dan Murphy, that satirizes Enbridge’s massive ad campaign in support of its Northern Gateway pipeline. In the original ad, Enbridge claims that the pipeline is “a path to our future,” […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: advertising, Canada, copyright, Enbridge, newspapers, Postmedia, The Province

Think you bought that DVD? Think again.

06/15/2012 by backofthebook.ca 4 Comments

By John Klein (aka Saskboy) Imagine buying a house, and being locked out of the basement by the previous owner. That’s what digital locks do. If you’ve been following Canadian politics, particularly the new Copyright Act (Canada’s DMCA) Bill C-11, you’ve heard of “digital locks.” A digital lock, or Digital Rights/Restrictions Management (DRM), is a […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Apple, Bill C-11, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, copyright, digital restriction management, digital rights management, iTunes, law

Copyright bill gives big media control

06/02/2010 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Eric Pettifor A new copyright bill has been introduced into parliament today, Bill C-32. I nearly wrote “anti-copyright” bill because, while I like the original idea of copyright, most of what governments have done to it in recent decades has been to its detriment. The idea behind copyright was that all creative works belong […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Bill C-32, Canada, copyright, digital restriction management, digital rights management, DRM, intellectual property, Michael Geist

Don’t Copy That Flop

05/28/2010 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Eric Pettifor   Q: How difficult would it be for the copyright holder of a film to get the IP addresses of people sharing that film over bittorrent? A: Easy as pie. Here’s a portion of a screen capture from my bittorrent client, ktorrent, showing the ip addresses of people sharing a popular file […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: computers, copyright, file sharing, intellectual property, internet, MPAA, p2p, piracy, RIAA

First strike

09/10/2008 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

isoHunt, a Canadian bittorrent site akin to The Pirate Bay, is making a preemptive strike against the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), our own little Canadian version of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). From TorrentFreak: As an act of self-defense, isoHunt has decided to sue the CRIA instead, and today Fung will file […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: computers, copyright, CRIA, DMCA, file sharing, intellectual property, internet, online video, p2p, piracy, RIAA

Paying the piper

10/13/2007 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

I hope Jammie Thomas is made to pay the entire fine of US$222,000 for illegally file-sharing music she never purchased. Just this week an American court ordered Thomas, who lives in Minnesota, to pay $9,250 for each song she stole. You might think this particular crime is not about politics. You might think it is […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: copyright, RIAA

The Fraud of “Intellectual Property”

06/17/2007 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

There is no such thing as “intellectual property.” Take copyright: if we are to look at creative works as property, then it is the property of the commons (that is, public domain), and copyright is simply a limited duration monopoly on works extended to creators as an incentive and reward. Patents likewise are of limited […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: computers, copyright, DVDs, geeks, intellectual property, internet, online video, piracy, RIAA

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