pickering - scarborough east

More from the Liberals Critic of consumers/citizens

Russell McOrmond
June 15, 2008 17:26

A Reuters article has an intereting quote. The Opposition Liberal party slammed the legislation as a half-baked measure that neglected consulting all sides. "How are you going to enforce this when existing jurisprudence doesn't allow you to walk into someone's home?" asked Liberal Dan McTeague. I...

51'st State: It's US vs U.S. in the battle for Canadian Sovereignty

Russell McOrmond
June 11, 2008 17:27

Gordon Duggan at Appropriation Art has published a comic (PDF) about Canadian Copyright revision. It is a classic battle of good vs. evil of comic proportions where the "Evil Emissaries of American Interests try to suppress the Fantastic Freedom of Expression Fighters". The cast of characters is...

Dan McTeague wants gas prices down, copyright prices up?

Russell McOrmond
June 08, 2008 17:16

I have had a Google Alerts for Dan McTeague for a few months, since I heard he was promoting a form of policy counterfeiting by confusing counterfeiting, commercial copyright piracy, non-commercial illegal sharing, patent, trademark, and other quite different areas of law. Most of the alerts talk...

Red Hat founder speaks against Canada's copyright reform

Russell McOrmond
June 07, 2008 14:56

An article by Rafael Ruffolo of ComputerWorld Canada includes an interview of RedHat founder (and Hamilton hometown hero) Bob Young. "The copyright philosophy behind the U.S. DMCA is that it's illegal to do what software engineers do every day of the week and what they'll have to continue to do in...

RCMP helps mis-named Anti-Counterfeiting Network in propaganda campaign

Russell McOrmond
June 05, 2008 14:51

Please see the Government of Canada press release: A Cross-Canada Educational Initiative to Raise Awareness and Combat Product Counterfeiting and Copyright Piracy. The Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network (CACN) is a lobby group with an extremely biased special interest opinion on this area of...