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With the globalization of the information society and the rapid pace of innovation with respect to new digital production and distribution technologies, old paradigms are in question, new issues are coming to light, and the number of people involved in the debate is increasing.
Artists, creators, industry players, government officials, and academics around the world are concerned with finding the appropriate balance between copyright protection and the ability to clear copyright. In an information society, where should the line be drawn between fair dealing and infringement and why? This question is often raised in the context of user rights regarding copyrighted material for the purposes of education, for example.
This section of Copyright In Focus provides access to resources that pose fundamental questions about how digital rights can better address the needs of creators and users in light of new licensing models for the Internet, international technical standards, digital rights management, and the Electronic Copyright Fund.
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"First Monday is one of the first peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet."
Creator(s): First Monday | Date Published: ?
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"Lessig, in FREE CULTURE, widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas. In this powerful wake-up call he shows how short-sighted interests blind to the long-term damage they’re inflicting are poisoning the ecosystem that fosters innovation."
Creator(s): Lawrence Lessig | Date Published: 2004
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"On March 24, the ministers of Canadian Heritage and Industry released a Statement outlining the Government's proposals for amendments to the Copyright Act that would address the short-term group of reform issues."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage, Industry Canada | Date Published: 2005-03-24
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"When comparing the evolution of P2P users in the OECD member countries from 2002 to 2003 as a share of global P2P users, the shares have grown fastest in France, Germany, Japan and Italy, while those in the U.S.A., and much less also of Belgium, the UK and others, have decreased; this strong growth in Europe versus the U.S.A. is explained by the fact that P2P uses became popular later in Europe than in the U.S.A."
Creator(s): Dr. Silke von Lewinski | Date Published: 2005-03
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"The market and temporary protection a better alternative for artists and the public domain."
Creator(s): Marieke van Schijndel & Joost Smiers | Date Published: 2005-02
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"The purpose of this discussion paper is to outline the Forum’s perspective on major issues that have to be addressed in revising the Copyright Act in order to make it a more effective instrument for achieving public policy objectives in a digital environment."
Creator(s): The Copyright Forum | Date Published: 2004-12-14
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"In November 2004, the National Advisory Board delivered its final report to the Minister of Canadian Heritage. This report outlines the Board's perspective and vision for Canadian culture on the Internet and offers a series of recommendations designed to maximize the government's investment in Canadian Culture Online for all Canadians."
Creator(s): Canadian Culture Online, National Advisory Board, Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2004-11
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"This article reports on a study which used results from 119 scenario–based evaluations of 36 museum Web sites to develop a conceptual framework for analyzing the usability flaws of museum Web sites."
Creator(s): Paul F. Marty and Michael B. Twidale | Date Published: 2004-08
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""For centuries, governments have sought in various ways to counteract the danger that public goods will be underproduced. Looking back over the historical record, we can see that their efforts have taken five forms. First, they sometimes supply such goods themselves. Navigational aids and national defense are the clearest examples. Today, throughout the world, virtually all lighthouses and armies are supplied by governments, rather than by private parties."
Creator(s): William W. Fisher III | Date Published: 2004-08
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"Three public interest groups have launched a campaign to focus the attention of political parties and candidates on issues involving the Internet and user rights. The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC), Digital Copyright Canada, and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) have asked party leaders and candidates for their views on user rights under copyright law and other technology-related issues."
Creator(s): Public Interest Advocacy Centre | Date Published: 2004-06-21
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"Think it is of critical importance that committee hears from range of voices with a stake in the issues raised by copyright reform in the digital era and the pressure to meet our international obligations with respect to copyright."
Creator(s): Public Interest Advocacy Centre | Date Published: 2004-04-20
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"The debate over downloading and sharing music over the Internet, and the copying of music using hardware devices, has certainly created a thriving business for copyright and IP (Intellectual Property) lawyers, an active roster of artists' collectives, and a heap of academic proposals, counter-proposals and impassioned presentations and seminar topics that fill many a conference hall."
Creator(s): Cathy Allison | Date Published: 2004-03-31
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"Case from the Federal Court of Canada."
Creator(s): Federal Court of Canada | Date Published: 2004-03-31
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"How can copyright owners make money on the Internet? And what is the role of enforcement in the strategy of a copyright owner to make money on the Internet? Those are the two questions I want to address briefly over dessert today."
Creator(s): Dr. Daniel J. Gervais | Date Published: 2004-03-03
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"A longstanding economic question is the appropriate level of protection for intellectual property. The Internet has drastically lowered the cost of copying information goods and provides a natural crucible to assess the implications of reduced protection."
Creator(s): Felix Oberholzer, Koleman Strumpf | Date Published: 2004-03
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"The current battles surrounding peer-to-peer file sharing are a losing proposition for everyone. The record labels continue to face lackluster sales, while the tens of millions of American file sharers—American music fans—are made to feel like criminals."
Creator(s): Electronic Frontier Foundation | Date Published: 2004-02
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"On Appeal from the Federal Court of Appeal."
Creator(s): University of Montreal | Date Published: 2004
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"This paper discusses interoperability of digital rights management (DRM) systems."
Creator(s): R. Koenen, J. Lacy, M. MacKay, and S. Mitchell | Date Published: 2004
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«Ce recueil présente neuf exposés prononcés à l’occasion de la huitième édition de la chaire de propriété intellectuelle consacrée à l’avènement de la société de l’information.»
Creator(s): Séverine Biderman | Date Published: 2004
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"The terms of reference for this project state that the criterion for assessing the expected effects of the changes to the Copyright Act that may be called for to implement the WIPO Internet Treaties should be net economic benefit to Canadians."
Creator(s): Dr. Ruth Towse | Date Published: 2004
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"In a decision qualified as “stunning” rendered March 31, 2004, Justice Konrad von Finckenstein of the Federal Court of Canada has ruled against a motion by some of Canada’s largest music producers— all members of the Canadian Recording Industry Association— and has thus allowed music fans and file-sharers alike to claim victory in the ever-growing battle over copyright on the Internet."
Creator(s): Brigitte Vézina | Date Published: 2004
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"This page discusses issues revolving around intellectual property and new information technology."
Creator(s): Howard Besser | Date Published: 2004
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"This report examines the relationship between copyright and consumers in light of current federal government initiatives to amend the Copyright Act. Specifically, the report looks at the submissions made by individual members of the public to the federal government under the copyright reform consultation, which began in 2001."
Creator(s): Sue Lott | Date Published: 2003-11
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"Copyright, access and the instructional capacities of the Internet and new digital technologies are therefore of keen importance to the educational community. A fair balance between the right to create and own and the right to use and reproduce must be achieved."
Creator(s): Association of Canadian Community Colleges | Date Published: 2003-09-15
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"The advent of massive unauthorized copying by individuals using peer-to-peer systems and MP3 files, besides generating an enormous amount of press (think Napster), has brought the affected copyright industries to the brink of declaring war against many of their customers."
Creator(s): Professor S. J. Liebowitz School Of Management University of Texas at Dallas | Date Published: 2003-08-31
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"Almost a quarter century ago, the US Supreme Court gave one of its seminal decisions for the modern analysis of antitrust, intellectual property and the relationships between the two areas of law. The decision in Broadcast Music, Inc. v. Columbia Broadcasting Systems, Inc. has since been an example of good economics and good law, for a triumph of rulemaking based on economic realities rather than on wooden judicial doctrine."
Creator(s): Ariel Katz - University of Toronto | Date Published: 2003-08
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"Copyright industries are hoping that digital rights management (DRM) technologies will prevent infringement of commercially valuable digital content, including music and movies."
Creator(s): Pamela Samuelson | Date Published: 2003-04
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"The most important point made in this submission is that digital rights management (DRM) technology should not and cannot be protected by Canadian law."
Creator(s): Matthew Skala | Date Published: 2003-01-31
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"The Study is a survey of the current status of legal protection relating to technical protection measures (TPMs) in Canada."
Creator(s): Christian S. Tacit, and Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2003
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"This is the second of two companion Studies prepared for the Copyright Policy Branch of the Department of Canadian Heritage by the law firm of Nelligan O’Brien Payne LLP."
Creator(s): Dr. Ian Kerr, Alana Maurushat and Christian S. Tacit | Date Published: 2003
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"This report examines the economic impact of four alternative approaches to dealing with the Copyright Act as it relates to the issue of copyright liability for Internet service providers (ISPs)."
Creator(s): Paul Chwelos | Date Published: 2003
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"As the Internet becomes an increasingly important resource for students to explore and utilize for education-related activities, material is often downloaded, reproduced and communicated to the public within the school environment for the purposes of assignments, lessons, research and intellectual curiosity."
Creator(s): Industry Canada | Date Published: 2002-12-11
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"In accordance with the Copyright Board’s Directive on Procedure, this Statement of Case provides a summary of the anticipated position of the Canadian Storage Media Alliance and its individual member companies."
Creator(s): Canadian Coalition for Fair Digital Access | Date Published: 2002-11-22
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«L'accessibilité aux informations juridiques a considérablement évolué au cours des dernières années. Le « droit d'auteur de la Couronne » , il n'y a pas si longtemps, était considéré comme l'un des obstacles à la libre diffusion du droit sur l'Internet (lois et jugements). Les États ont cependant assoupli l'application de cette prérogative, dans une volonté de rendre ces « règles de droit » le plus largement accessibles et ce, gratuitement.»
Creator(s): Sophie Hein | Date Published: 2002-10
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«Cette étude, fondée sur les réponses de 12 197 Canadiens âgés de douze ans ou plus lors d'une enquête téléphonique menée de juillet 2001 à juin 2002, permet de tirer les conclusions suivantes.»
Creator(s): Société canadienne de perception de la copie privée A/S, Claude Brunet et David Collier | Date Published: 2002-10
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"The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty (WCT) and Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) have recently come into force. It is anticipated that there will be changes in the national laws of Canada’s major trading partners in response to the WIPO treaties."
Creator(s): Michael Rushton | Date Published: 2002-06
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"In a remarkably short time, the Internet has become a global mass medium of communication that operates sans frontieres. As technical difficulties have been overcome, the transmission of music, generally recorded, but sometimes live or broadcast, has recently become an increasingly popular use of the Internet."
Creator(s): Federal Court Appeal | Date Published: 2002-05-01
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"New information and communication technologies blur the public/private and commercial/home dichotomies further – qualitatively and quantitatively – by making copyrighted works available to everyone, perfectly, privately and simultaneously."
Creator(s): Jason Young - Queen's University | Date Published: 2002-04-26
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"Study considers the legal protection of databases in Canada and comparatively with protections available or proposed in the European Union and the United States. It represents the initial stage of the development of a database protection policy for Canada."
Creator(s): Robert G. Howell | Date Published: 2002-03
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«Nous tentons d’entrevoir les traits probables de la cohabitation du droit de la propriété intellectuelle et du droit de la concurrence dans le secteur naissant du multimédia, et de familiariser le lecteur avec les principes présidant à l’analyse de cette relation en apparence conflictuelle.»
Creator(s): Johanne Daniel | Date Published: 2002
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