Category Archives: Copyright
Thoughts on COUNTER: Counterfeiting and Piracy Research Conference
Generally the research presented was well-rooted in (what appear to be) rigorous methodological techniques, and perhaps this research might be adopted and leveraged by policymakers in their ongoing engagements with copyright, content producers, and the public. My expectations, however, are less positive: I fear that the work of the COUNTER research project will remain sheltered in academia, sequestered from the public, and consequently ineffective in reshaping the copyright debacle in but the most limited of fashions. Hopefully this is a case where academia can successfully puncture the academic/public divide and breech the public policy debate, but I’m not holding my breath. Continue reading
Why Mash-up Matters
Draft of the first part of a paper entitled, “Mash-up Meets Deep Packet Inspection: Culture, solutions, and the demand for transparency” Continue reading
Crown, Copyright, and the CRTC
I’m in the middle of a large project (for one person), and as part of it I wanted to host some CRTC documents on the project’s web server to link into. You see, if you’ve ever been involved in one … Continue reading
Will Copyright Kill eHealth?
Should we be developing laws the prop up questionable current-day business models of major content producers at the potential expense of wasting billions in public infrastructure upgrades, or should government be taking a longer view of things and start siding with both citizens and their own allocation of infrastructure dollars? Continue reading
