All signs are pointing to Industry Minister Jim Prentice introducing Canada’s long-awaited copyright reform bill into the house of commons within the next week or two. Sadly, all signs are pointing to this as-yet unborn legislation being even more restrictive than the stillborn bill C-60, which was the Martin governments stab at the same thing. […]
Entries from November 2007
Copyright Clouds Are Gathering
November 29th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: copyright reform · media ramblings
More P2P Fun with Mark
November 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Reusing headers. How gauche. There are not only one but two new posts by Mark Cuban on his P2P stance over at his site. While they help to clarify his position regarding his first post (which I wrote about below), they make his overall viewpoint (in my opinion) even more skewed. In one breath he […]
Tags: media ramblings
<__> <-- The Boat Mark Cuban-->¡
November 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment
So I have this interesting post I’ve been trying to write about steak sandwiches all week, but I keep finding things which distract me from that vital task. To whit: I like Mark Cuban. I also like his Blog (you can tell as it’s one of a very small list over there on the right […]
Tags: media ramblings
Why the Writers Guild strike may threaten digital rights on-line (or “Defending Mr. Moneybags”).
November 8th, 2007 · 5 Comments
The Explosively Talented Christopher Bird is a great blogger. He not only writes regularly for the Torontoist, but his personal site Mightygodking.com updates regularly, is witty and charming, and covers (almost to a precision decimal place) topics of vital importance to me including Ontario Electoral Reform, lazy writing clichés, and the Legion of Superheroes. I […]
Tags: media ramblings