Rusell McOrmond

Articles by Rusell McOrmond

Predictable positions from subset of stakeholders at Brussels telecommunication/copyright event.

Michael Geist has posted an article “The Battle Over Internet Filtering”where he discusses a seminar in Brussels on the “telecoms package”currently before the European...

FACIL launches lawsuit against Quebec government to close loophole

FACIL sent out press release (english press release, which includes a link to a translation of their court filing) that documents their launching of...

What would an “interoperable” or “open source” DRM system look like?

Readers of this blog have the tools they need to evaluate some interesting industry initiatives. The major motion picture studios are trying to...

Bill C-61 grants new "copyright" related rights to non-copyright related rights-holders?

Many people remark about how similar Bill C-61 is to the USA’s DMCA.While Industry Minister Jim Prentice claims that things like the timeand device...

(Digital) Locks are multipurpose tools, and can be used or abused

In an interview by Jesse Brown of CBC’s Search Engine,Jim Prentice suggested that “even for private personal use … one shouldnot be breaking a...

2008 Couchiching conference opening keynote by Bill Buxton

I glanced at CPAC earlier this week, and noticed Bill Buxton giving a talk. I looked things up, and found out this was...

Open Access textbooks, provincial ministers of education and Access Copyright

There is an interesting article by Gale Holland in the Los Angeles Timestalking about the “eye-popping costs” of college and universitytextbooks. Caltech economics professor...

US appeals court confirms that conditions of a liberal FLOSS license are enforceable

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (considered THE US court for patent, copyright, trademark and related law) ruled on August...

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