intellectual property
Why NAFTA renegotiations need to tackle the digital economy
Opinion: The NAFTA talks represent a crucial opportunity to address and assert Canada’s needs on e-commerce, intellectual property rights, and more
Why Canada is a haven for knock-off goods
Ottawa’s lackadaisical attitude toward brand pirates is angering its biggest trading partner—and hurting the Canadian economy
Apple v. Samsung: Why the patent war risks creating a tech monster
The big loser is… YOU
Copyright rulings will affect rights to photocopy materials, preview music
Students and online buyers rejoice: students may now photocopy class material freely and online music buyers will continue to be able to listen to 30 second previews of songs for free.
Carleton rejects Access Copyright license agreement
Latest school to turn down agreement that would raise student fees
Major League Baseball: the intellectual property behemoth
They’re clubbing the creativity of their fan base
Tories stifle widow through IP laws, twirl moustaches, cackle
The Conservative party picks an ill-advisded fight against a sympathetic anti-asbetos crusader
What’s the saving throw against a chaotic-evil digithief?
Speaking on the first day of the World Newspaper Congress in Hyderabad, India, Rupert Murdoch’s US leader accused the press of being the “principal architect of its greatest difficulty today”. …”We are allowing our journalism—billions of dollars worth of it every year—to leak onto the internet. We are surrendering our hard-earned rights to the search engines and aggregators, and the out and out thieves of the digital age.” [link]