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Does it Matter Where Your Data Lives? 22 Aug 2013 | 07:33 pm
This is a question that Michael Geist asks in his blog, and I have problems with the focus of this article. The suggestion is that the physical location of where the CPU, RAM and hard disks data is st...
My comments on version 2.0 of the Open Government Licence – Canada. 19 Jun 2013 | 07:52 pm
(The following is a re-posting of thoughts I posted to the GOSLING mailing list in response to questions about why the government created the Open Government Licence – Canada rather than adopt the gen...
Will Canada's postal code data finally be released? 18 Jun 2013 | 11:19 pm
The PM has announced Canada's signing on to a G8 Open Data Charter. That charter includes the following under Part Two - Collective Actions: Action 2: Release of high value data We recognise the fol...
CRTC wireless code: Canadians still charged fees to unlock own devices 3 Jun 2013 | 06:55 pm
The CRTC has issued a new wireless code. Much of the talk is about contracts, which weren't what concerned me, but there are also details about non-owner device locks. Devices must be able to be unlo...
Response from Industry Canada 24 May 2013 | 10:20 pm
Just received this response from the Ministry. Any typos are likely my own! Dear Chris Brand: On behalf of the Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister for Industry, thank you for your e-mail of March...
Lack of economic harm from rights infringement not whole story 7 May 2013 | 07:17 pm
The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), a scientific institute of the European Commission, released a report with a familiar message: illegal music downloads aren't a substitute fo...
"Digital Lock" language from the technology owners perspective 29 Apr 2013 | 07:04 pm
I was pointed to an article on G+ asking for language when someone takes control of their own computer in a way that is designed to be done by the manufacturer, rather than using an exploit that circu...
WIPO's World Intellectual Property day ideal for discussing WIPO failures 26 Apr 2013 | 08:55 pm
Each year WIPO declares April 26'th as their "World Intellectual Property Day", and I consider this to be an ideal time to hilight the harm that WIPO's narrow-minded policies cause to creativity and o...
I'm of two minds on CRTC mandatory carriage hearings 26 Apr 2013 | 08:06 pm
As I read The Wire Report and Michael Geist's blog reporting on the CRTC's mandatory distribution hearings, I am of two minds. On one hand I've intervened in front of the CRTC in the past to state th...
Access Copyright’s Lawsuit against York University 12 Apr 2013 | 07:10 pm
Universities have been slow in modernizing how they fund educational material, but have finally been moving away from post-payment (primarily monopoly rent seeking) to pre-payment where the authoring,...
