I’ve been staying out of most of the hubub surrounding the government’s copyright consultation partly because I’m trying to save energy for looking at actual proposed legislation (which is where the battle-lines will really matter), and partly because I’ve been busy. It’s not that I don’t appreciate the veneer of “public consultation” by the government […]
Progressive Copyright: Part I – Term Limits for Everyone
August 18th, 2009 · 11 Comments
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One last Coraline note…
March 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
One last, for now, note on the on-going saga of Coraline’s Box-Office. While (as I predicted) Coraline did overtake “Friday the 13th” this week, it not only wasn’t by the large measure I had expected – but it dropped a whopping 54% to 5.3M, which was significantly more than I expected. Thankfully BoxOfficeMojo set me […]
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C-61: Attack of the Comments Thread
July 9th, 2008 · 6 Comments
My previous post on C-61 sparked some interesting comments from Russell McOrmond (a programmer from Ottawa who raised some interesting points vis-a-vis software) and Tim Harwell (a musician from my hometown of Calgary who… just didn’t agree with a lot of what I said). Since I know many/most of you don’t read the comments – […]
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