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09/08/2010 - 1:51pm
The power of the Internet is undeniable.
When thinking about U.S. President Barack Obama's election in 2008, many people link that historic victory to the power of the Internet. Leveraging Social Media and many of the digital marketing tools at his...
09/08/2010 - 6:01am
How often do you think about the future of Marketing?
It's an interesting question to think about. To ponder. To speculate. In the past, I've made note that I do not consider myself a Futurist (as some have called me), but rather a Presentist. It's...
09/08/2010 - 4:15am
Two months ago, I posted
the question on whether the EU might ultimately decide to walk away
from ACTA given the ongoing battle over the scope of the treaty (the EU
wants it cover all IP, particularly geographical indications, the U.S.
wants it...
09/08/2010 - 3:38am
Politicians in Europe and Mexico are speaking out on the
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement just as ACTA nears
completion. In
Europe, a majority of the European Parliament has signed Written
Declaration 12. Initiated by MEPs Françoise
Castex...
09/07/2010 - 3:37am
I posted yesterday on the updated
Internet chapter in the latest
version of ACTA,
which features a major change on secondary liability and the U.S.
attempt to clawback on recent domestic DMCA changes by arguing against
linking circumvention and...
09/07/2010 - 2:21am
The Governor-in-Council has ordered
an Investment Canada Act section 15 review of Apple Canada's
iBookstore. The review of the cultural investment may help explain the
delay in the full launch of Apple online bookstore for the iPad.
09/07/2010 - 2:20am
The WSJ reports
on a legal battle between Eminem and Universal Records over royalties
due for downloads from iTunes. The court sided with the artist,
which would result in a significantly higher royalty rate. The
music label has vowed to...
09/07/2010 - 2:19am
Howard Knopf posts
on new decisions from the Federal Court of Appeal which suggest that
there is effectively a making available right in the case of musical works in
Canadian copyright law and no need for further reform on the issue.
09/07/2010 - 2:02am
Zak Muscovitch, a Toronto domain name lawyer running for the CIRA
board, has an interesting
article on the dot-ca administrator and the public interest.
09/06/2010 - 1:46pm
"You work too much." "You must be a workaholic." "Do you ever sleep?" "When do you take a break?"
Right now...
Someone is caring for a very sick, little girl with leukemia.
Someone is chasing down a...
09/06/2010 - 3:27am
Given the history of ACTA leaks, to no one's surprise, the latest
version of the draft agreement was leaked last night on KEI's
website. The new
version
- which reflects changes made during an intense week of negotiations
last month in...
09/05/2010 - 8:12pm
Episode #218 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to. This is also episode #35 of Media Hacks.
For this Labour Day weekend we managed to get C.C. Chapman, Hugh McGuire, Christopher S. Penn...
09/04/2010 - 1:33pm
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:...
09/03/2010 - 10:30pm
Is it a Facebook page? Is it Twitter? Is it posting a video to YouTube? What about creating a Blog? What is the best way to grow an audience?
As someone who sits in corporate boardrooms or presents in front of large audiences, that has to be the...
09/02/2010 - 6:16am
It's back-to-school week... what are you planning on learning this year?
The other morning, I watched the pitter-patter of feet drag their way back to school. The brand-new schoolbags scratched by the pavement, the half-tied shoelaces, and the...
08/31/2010 - 10:00pm
There is a reason why traditional media professionals will have a hard time making the transition to a new media world.
Just the other day I got into a debate with a seasoned traditional journalist about what the new media means. This individual is...
08/31/2010 - 10:43am
Is Mad Men a true representation of how great creative happens in Marketing?
In a typical Mad Men episode, research comes back saying something plain about the insights surrounding a brand. But the creatives, led by a cape-wearing Don Draper, rage...
08/31/2010 - 12:54am
Last week, Statistics Canada released its latest
report
on the commercialization of intellectual property in Canadian
universities. Canada spends billions of public dollars on
research
funding each year and the government has been increasingly...
08/31/2010 - 12:40am
A new report
funded by the European Union has concluded that counterfeits have
pro-consumer effects while rejecting claims of losses by established
companies. The report concludes that most counterfeit purchases
are
not substitute for the...
08/30/2010 - 11:39pm
The CRTC yesterday affirmed
an earlier decision requiring incumbents to grant wholesale access to
faster speeds to independent ISPs. The government could still overrule
the decision within the next 90 days.
