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Secret SOCAN copyright doc online
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The government has now completed posting all the submissions it received during the copyright consultation, says Michael Geist . “Interestingly,” he goes on, “the final submission to be posted was from SOCAN, but it came with some controversy. Sources say that SOCAN requested that its submission not be posted online.” Really?
Continue reading »Student boffins take on iTunes’ not-so-smart Genius
‘You like the Shadows? You’ll love Herman’s Hermits’ Boffins in California say they have produced music-recommendation software which produces playlists “as good as” those from Apple’s iTunes Genius – and which has the advantages of collecting no user data and having in its repertoire a lot of music that “Genius knows nothing about”.…
Continue reading »Canada as world ‘file-swapping capital’
“Canada’s failure to strengthen intellectual property rights (IPR) in the face of digital technology has given it an unwelcome reputation as the file-swapping capital of the world. Stronger intellectual property rights and enforcement are needed to protect new knowledge and shore up Canada’s poor innovation record, according to a series of Conference Board reports — released in advance of its May 29 conference Intellectual Property Rights: Innovation and Commercialization in Turbulent Times . “As a result of lax regulation and enforcement, internet piracy appears to be on the increase in Canada.
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