Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Michael Geist has some "visions" for Canada's Copyright Law
From a speech he held at the Canada's Digital Economy Conference, "...we need to provide business confidence with rules that provide sufficient flexibility to innovate. We need rules that give consumers confidence that they won’t lose access to their online purchases whenever an online seller drops support for a particular business line. Rules that assure consumers that it’s ok to use their PVR or to shift music to their iPod. Rules that encourage rather than discourage research into encryption and digital security, distance learning opportunities, access to knowledge and long overdue digitization initiatives. We can achieve this kind of reform and still implement international treaties such as the WIPO Internet treaties".
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Don't look for it in Rome... Nearly two months on, the Commission’s DMA non-compliance decision against Meta was finally published...
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PCC.land, here .
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SOMO, here .
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What do EU citizens expect? Digitalrechte, here.
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Vidéo ici ; texte ici.
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TechPolicy Podcast, here .
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Rest of World, here.
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Intelligencer, here.