Julianna Yau’s blog

Lawrence from Northworthy and Michael Geist write about a newly formed coalition, the Business Coalition for Balanced Copyright.

It seems like everyone is forming a copyright-centric coalition these days: the Canadian Music Creators Coalition, the Creators’ Copyright Coalition, the Canadian Coalition for Electronic Rights, and now the Business Coalition for Balanced Copyright (which, despite having members such as Google, Yahoo! Canada, Rogers, Telus and Tucows, does not seem to have a website yet).

What’s next? The Canadian Coalition of Copyright Coalitions?

Now that we’re done (maybe) creating coalitions, can we get together and actually resolve some of these issues?

Primary Sources on Copyright, a digital archive project for primary sources on copyright, is hosting a two-day conference on Wednesday 19th and Thursday 20th March 2008 in London, England. The keynote speakers will be Professor Mark Rose University of California Santa Barbara, Professor Laurent Pfister University of Versailles Saint-Quentin and Professor Karl Nikolaus Peifer Köln University. Professor Rose recently presented a lecture at the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, which I covered here. The conference will end with the launch of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property.