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2018
Want to Keep Canadian AI Thriving?: Create a Copyright Exception for Informational Analysisoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2018
The Full “Culture Exception” That Isn’t: Why Canada Caved on Independent Cultural Policy in the USMCAoriginal ↗
11 Oct 2018
10 Oct 2018
10 Oct 2018
4 Oct 2018
1 Oct 2018
The Internet is not an ATM: My Appearance at the Senate Transport and Communications Committee on Broadcast and Telecom Reformoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2018
Cuts Like a Knife: Bryan Adams Calls for Stronger Protections Against One-Sided Record Label Contractsoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2018
Supreme Court of Canada on Copyright Notices: Identification of IP Address “Not Conclusive of Guilt”original ↗
18 Sept 2018
17 Sept 2018
13 Sept 2018
30 Aug 2018
Maximum Mudslinging: How Powerful Lobby Groups Are Working to Sideline Civil Society Voices on Digital Policyoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2018
“This Really Isn’t Our Fight and It Will Cost Us”: Behind the Scenes of CBC Support for Bell’s Website Blocking Planoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2018
One-Sided Story: Lobbyist Data Shows Music, Movie and Publisher Groups Account For 80 Per cent of Registered Copyright Meetings in Canada Since 2015 Electionoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2018
Behind Ryerson’s Support for Site Blocking: Bell Reviewed Draft Submission, Was Warned It Did Not Represent Faculty Vieworiginal ↗
8 Aug 2018
“One of Our Key Hiring Companies”: The Missing Link in the George Brown College Support for Bell’s Site Blocking Planoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2018
CRTC Truthiness: New Docs Reveal New Story About Bell Meetings with the Commission on Website Blockingoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2018
Court Rules Quebec Plan for Mandated ISP Blocking of Online Gambling Sites is Unconstitutionaloriginal ↗
24 Jul 2018
17 Jul 2018
13 Jul 2018
The State of Canadian Wireless in One Chart: No One Has Carriers That Generate More Revenue With Less Usageoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2018
Movie Industry Denies Lawsuit Strategy Despite Proliferation of Legal Actions and Settlement Demands Against Thousands of Canadiansoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2018
Government Memo Suggests Netflix Outspends Canadian Private Broadcasters on Canadian English Scripted Programmingoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2018
Unpacking Canada’s IP Strategy: Countering IP Abuse, Addressing IP Administration and Removing IP Barriers to Innovationoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2018
The Consequences of High Wireless Costs: OECD Data Confirms Canadians Lag Behind in Data Usageoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2018
Canada’s Access to Information Open Data Fail: Departments Months Behind Posting Summaries of Completed Requestsoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2018
Net Neutrality and NAFTA: Canadian Government Says It Will Address U.S. Policy Should Harms Ariseoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2018
Site Blocking, The Sequel: After Telling Courts They Can Issue De-Indexing or Blocking Orders, Movie Industry Calls for More in Copyright Actoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2018
How Did George Brown College Come to Support the FairPlay Site Blocking Plan? Docs Show Bell Lobbied the School’s Presidentoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2018
CRTC Rebuked: Government Signals Frustration With the Commission Prioritizing Carriers Over Consumersoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2018
13 Jun 2018
Canadian Music Industry Wants Government to Pay Copying Fee for Every Smartphone Sold in Canadaoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2018
The CRTC’s Fundamental Flaw: Broadcasting May Be the Internet, but the Internet is Not Broadcastingoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2018
6 Jun 2018
Government’s Telecom/Broadcast Review Sets Up Internet Taxes and Regulation As a 2019 Election Issueoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2018
5 Jun 2018
The 1980s CRTC: The Commission Turns Back the Clock with Old-Style Regulation and Privileged Insider Accessoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2018
Separating Fact From Fiction: The Reality of Canadian Copyright, Fair Dealing, and Educationoriginal ↗
31 May 2018
Who Needs an iPhone Tax: Canadian Music Industry Instead Calls for $40 Million Annual Handoutoriginal ↗
30 May 2018
Canadian Copyright, Fair Dealing and Education, Part Four: Fixing Fair Dealing for the Digital Ageoriginal ↗
25 May 2018
Canadian Copyright, Fair Dealing and Education, Part Three: Exploring the Impact of Site Licensing at Canadian Universitiesoriginal ↗
24 May 2018
Canadian Copyright, Fair Dealing and Education, Part Two: The Declining Value of the Access Copyright Licenceoriginal ↗
23 May 2018
22 May 2018
Judge For Yourself: Bell Says It Didn’t Meet CRTC to Review the FairPlay Application, But Here’s the Slide Presentationoriginal ↗
17 May 2018
Fair Play for FairPlay?: Bell Presented Its Site Blocking Plan to the CRTC Months Before It Became Publicoriginal ↗
16 May 2018
11 May 2018
House of Commons Ethics Committee Recommends Rejecting Bell Coalition Website Blocking Planoriginal ↗
10 May 2018
Bell Backroom Pressure: Internal Documents Reveal How a Brock University Executive Came to Provide Support for Website Blockingoriginal ↗
9 May 2018
Springer Nature Opens Up on Educational Publishing: “E-Piracy” Sites Do Not Replace Traditional Subscription Services, Business Risks Primarily Stem from Marketplace Changesoriginal ↗
8 May 2018
7 May 2018
World’s Worst Wireless Pricing?: Report Finds Canadian Wireless Broadband Pricing Offers Least Bang for the Buck in Developed Worldoriginal ↗
4 May 2018
Less Than 1%: Canadian Publisher Data Points to Tiny Impact of Access Copyright Royalty Declineoriginal ↗
1 May 2018
30 Apr 2018
Tackling IP Misuse: Canada Takes the Lead in Combating the Dark Side of Intellectual Property Protectionoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2018
Canadian Music Industry Seeks New Fees, Content Blocking, and Right to Renegotiate Deals Despite Generating Record Digital Revenuesoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2018
Quebec Writers Group Calls for an End to Copyright Exceptions: “Only Where Access is Otherwise Impossible”original ↗
25 Apr 2018
Be Careful What You Wish For: The Risk of Ceding Online Content Monitoring to Internet Giantsoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2018
18 Apr 2018
Digital Trends and Initiatives in Education: The Study the Association of Canadian Publishers Tried To Buryoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2018
Canada’s Tough Anti-Piracy Copyright Law: Federal Court Awards Millions in Damages Against Unauthorized Streaming Siteoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2018
Canadian Journalism Foundation: Privacy and Freedom of Expression in a Digital Age Symposiumoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2018
Against Copyright Balance: Canadian Heritage Officials Say It’s Time “To Move Beyond the Notion of Balance”original ↗
12 Apr 2018
Broken Record: Why the Music Industry’s Secret Plan for iPhone Taxes, Internet Tracking and Content Blocking is Off-Keyoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2018
CRTC Website Blocking Submissions Confirm Over-Blocking Risks: “Every Blocking Technique Suffers from Over-blocking and Under-blocking”original ↗
10 Apr 2018
Data Rules in Modern Trade Agreements: Toward Reconciling an Open Internet with Privacy and Security Safeguardsoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2018
Canadian Internet Providers Warn of Site Blocking Consequences: Threat to Affordable Internet Access and Market Competitionoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2018
Coming Soon (or at least by November): Government Sets a Date for Data Breach Disclosure Rules To Take Effectoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2018
Telus’ Website Blocking Submission: No Copyright Expertise Needed and No Net Neutrality Violation if Everyone is Doing Itoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2018
My CRTC Submission on the Bell Coalition Site Blocking Plan: Why it is Disproportionate, Harmful, and Inconsistent With Global Standardsoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2018
UN Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression: Website Blocking Plan “Raises Serious Inconsistencies” With Canada’s Human Rights Obligationsoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2018
Federal Court of Appeal Rejects Access Copyright Bid to Overturn Board Ruling on Insubstantial Copying, Fair Dealingoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2018
26 Mar 2018
Coalition Featuring Google, Amazon, GoDaddy and CogecoPeer1 Warn Against Canadian Site Blocking Plan: Lost Jobs, Stifled Innovationoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2018
Outlier: Why Bell’s Leadership on Website Blocking Places It at Odds With Telecom Companies Around the Worldoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2018