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08/07/2010 - 1:48pm
Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?
My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Rednod, GigaOM, Human 2.0, the author of Complete Web Monitoring and Managing Bandwidth:...
08/06/2010 - 10:11pm
As we move closer and closer to the real-time Web, we are already encountering instances where the Web - as we know it - seems old and antiquated.
Here's the scenario: this past week, I received a breaking news tweet that a plane had crashed...
08/06/2010 - 10:04pm
As we move closer and closer to the real-time Web, we are already encountering instances where the Web - as we know it - seems old and antiquated.
Here's the scenario: this past week, I received a breaking news tweet that a plane had crashed...
08/06/2010 - 1:01am
This week's Hill Times includes my op-ed
on the recent Access Copyright win at the Federal Court of Appeal and
how the decision demonstrates that fears about fair dealing reform in
Bill C-32 are greatly exaggerated. Text of the op-ed below....
08/06/2010 - 12:48am
My colleague Jeremy deBeer is one of several researchers who has edited
a new volume
that provides a detailed look at the role of copyright on access to
knowledge in Africa. The full book is available as a free
download.
08/06/2010 - 12:45am
Search Engine covers
[MP3] the new DMCA exemptions in an interesting interview with EFF's
Corynne McSherry.
08/05/2010 - 7:14am
Can a business culture be both open and closed?
WikiLeaks scared everybody last week. How is it possible that one individual can become a whistleblower by uploading thousands of documents to a website that anyone can have access to, and one from...
08/05/2010 - 7:13am
Can a business culture be both open and closed?
WikiLeaks scared everybody last week. How is it possible that one individual can become a whistleblower by uploading thousands of documents to a website that anyone can have access to, and one from...
08/04/2010 - 4:19pm
More than ever, community newspapers throughout BC and Yukon are making use of new media to supplement their traditional revenue streams. Blogs rich with local content are a great way for community newspapers to connect with their readers on an...
08/04/2010 - 8:25am
Blogging is (still) one of the most powerful Marketing tools. Ever. Period. Hard stop.
On November 28th, 2009, I had a Blog post titled, Start A Blog Today, that focused on an amazing video interview of Tom Peters (In Search of Excellence, Re-...
08/04/2010 - 4:00am
I am honoured to have been named one of the recipients of Public
Knowledge's IP3 Awards for 2010.
Public Knowledge does great work on digital rights issues and their IP3
Awards have identified some of the biggest contributors to those
issues....
08/04/2010 - 3:57am
Nokia's global director of brand protection has published a critical
column
on ACTA in the World Trademark Review (sub required). The column
says
that ACTA is unnecessarily broad and that by excluding key countries
from the negotiations, those...
08/04/2010 - 3:56am
The SAC's Eddie Schwartz has an op-ed
in the Straight, renewing the call for the legalization of downloading
in return for a monthly ISP levy.
08/03/2010 - 9:32pm
Blogging is (still) one of the most powerful Marketing tools. Ever. Period. Hard stop.
On November 28th, 2009, I had a Blog post titled, Start A Blog Today, that focused on an amazing video interview of Tom Peters (In Search of Excellence, Re-...
08/03/2010 - 8:53am
The concept of transmedia and Digital Storytelling is the new Social Media.
You can't throw a Digital Marketing Strategist without hearing the words "transmedia" or "digital storytelling" before they plunk against the ground. It...
08/03/2010 - 5:29am
As much as democracy and the right to a fair trial, so too is connectivity and access to the Internet.
The news item titled, Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right, from Cnet was published on October 14th, 2009. Check this out: "...
08/03/2010 - 2:50am
My weekly technology law column (Toronto
Star version, homepage
version)
picks up on last week's DMCA exemption decision with a contrast to Bill
C-32. I note that since its introduction two months ago, the
government's copyright
reform package...
08/03/2010 - 2:47am
Jenna Wilson and Sangeetha Punniyamoorthy, IP lawyers with Dimock
Stratton LLP in Toronto, argue in the Lawyers
Weekly
that "Anti-circumvention provisions could be implemented in the
Copyright Act without significantly disturbing the balance between...
08/03/2010 - 2:46am
The NY
Times and LA
Times have both published masthead editorials approving the new
digital lock exemptions announced last week in the U.S.
08/03/2010 - 2:44am
Peter Jaszi provides a great
review of how the U.S. DMCA exemption process has evolved for the
better.
