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Author Using Questionable Copying Claim Against Twilight Author For Publicity
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| Shouldn't there be sanctions for abusing copyright law to file bogus lawsuits
| just to get some press for your book?
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090806/1917485794.shtml
Canadians: Please make your voice heard today on copyright law
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| The Canadian government has set up an online public consultation process to
| revise its copyright policy, running until September 13, 2009. If you live in
| Canada, now is your chance to take back your copyright law.
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http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/canadian-copyright-consultation
Green party defends P2P legalization, collective licensing scheme
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| The German Green party has defended the idea of a "culture flat rate" to pay
| for a legalization of file sharing, according to a report from heise.de.
| Germany's Greens have been proposing collective licensing in combination with
| the legalization of non-commercial file sharing for a while, and party
| officials recently came out to defend the idea against critics from other
| parties as well as industry associations.
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http://www.p2p-blog.com/item-1132.html
Recent:
Canadian copyright collecting agency subverting open debate on copyright
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| Access Copyright, the Canadian author's collecting society (a group that
| collects money from libraries for book lending and gives it to authors) is
| using its members' money to sabotage an enormously popular consultation on
| the future of Canadian copyright.
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| [...]
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| As a Canadian author, Access Copyright is supposed to represent my interests
| in the Canadian copyright debate. Instead, they are setting out to undermine
| the first glimmer of sanity in Canadian copyright policy in three
| governments -- and using my money to do it. For shame.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/29/canadian-copyright-c-1.html
BNN Trying To Silence The Canadian Copyright Debate?
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| Given the above evidence one can only assume that The Business News Networkâs
| intended goal is to silence the debate surrounding Canadian copyright reform
| by suppressing the rebroadcast of clips which may be unfavourable for
| industry lobby groups.
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http://www.ccer.ca/canadian-copyright-reform/bnn-trying-to-silence-the-canadian-copyright-debate/
Radio-Canada Issues YouTube Takedown Over Harper Communion Video
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| News organizations depend upon fair dealing every day for their own coverage
| and should not be so quick to demand takedowns of newsworthy clips that
| should qualify for similar protection.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4117/125/
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