Week (or so) in review: Copyright
I’ll be getting back to my deconstruction of copyright next week. Here’s what’s been floating around the web and blogosphere in the past week…
While most discussions about copyright infringement and the internet is focused on users as infringers, Digital Copyright Canada picks up on the itWorldCanada article We’re not thieves. We just can’t read contracts (McAfee and Open Source). Monica Hesse of the Washington Post also writes about the topic, focusing on corporate misuse of copyrighted photos.
The Crave blog finds software that allows users to record free, unlimited MP3 audio with your cell phone and hardware to share content between iPods.
Both Michael Geist and Russell McOrmond pick up on the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s public letter to the Industry Minister and Canadian Heritage Minister on the impacts DMCA-style legislation has on privacy.
The Vancouver Sun also publishes an article arguing that reformed copyright laws shouldn’t suppress creativity.
Meanwhile, Howard Knopf picks up on another camcording bust.
And I’m still behind on my reading of some blogs I recently discovered:
Tags: Canada, copyright, corporate, dmca, howard knopf, internet, legislation, michael geist, photography, political, privacy, russell mcormond
Check out who authored the ITWorld Canada BLOG article.. I was recently asked to blog there, and to post about twice a week. I’m putting longer-form articles there aimed at a more tech-savvy but less copyright or other policy savvy audience.
Planning my next article for Monday…
BTW: I’m typing this on my XO. The smaller keyboard takes some getting used to, but I think it will be helpful. I’m almost thinking I should stick to only using facebook via the XO so that I can’t type fast enough to get kicked off again ;-)