moore_copyright.png For months, foreign media giants have abused Canada’s copyright system by threatening Canadians with penalties that are impossible under Canadian law, in order to intimidate them into paying extortionate charges April 23, 2015 – Leading Canadian copyright experts and organizations are urging Industry Minister James Moore to fix dangerous
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OpenMedia.ca: Canada is walking into a copyright trap
Canadians got an unpleasant surprise in the budget yesterday when the government announced that it would be extending copyright for sound recordings by 20 years, up from Canada’s current term of life of the creator plus 50 years. The move comes after the flawed implementation of Canada’s Notice and Notice
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Huffington Post: Thanks, copyright jerks
No one messes with my Netflix. No one! Article by Daniel Tencer for The Huffington Post Canada’s new copyright law may have made it illegal for TV viewers on this side of the border to access U.S. Netflix, a prominent law firm says. read more
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: How the Digital Privacy Act S-4 Could Bring Copyright Trolls to Canada
This article was originally published in the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Monitor. Canada’s system of copyright enforcement is internationally recognized as a next-generation approach–striking a balance between the rights of artists and creators and those of Internet users. Our system is designed to protect people from false claims of
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: EFF: This secretive agreement could undermine user safeguards
More bad news about the TPP. Article by Maira Sutton for the EFF A newly leaked chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement from Wikileaks has confirmed some of our worst fears about the agreement. The latest provisions would enable multinational corporations to undermine public interest rules through an international tribunal process called
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Meet the man who can stop the TPP’s Internet censorship plan
A huge leak just revealed that the TPP would establish a secretive, shadowy international court that could be used by Big Media giants to kick Internet users around the world offline. To make this nightmare a reality, anti-Internet lobbyists are pushing harder than ever to “fast track” the TPP. If
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: TechDirt: The TPP has set its sights on free speech and fair use
Fair use – the building block of remix art – is under threat. Article by Mike Masnick via TechDirt We’ve been writing a lot about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement over the past few years. There are many, many problems with it, but the two key ones are the
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia’s Meghan Sali to provide crowdsourced testimony to Parliamentary committee about how Bill S-4 will undermine privacy and lead to widespread abuse of copyright system
troll_shakedown.png Sali will amplify the voices of Canadians and experts worried about how Bill S-4 would massively expand the warrantless disclosure of personal information On Thursday, OpenMedia’s Meghan Sali will testify before key Members of Parliament on the Industry, Science and Technology Committee about Bill S-4, the Digital Privacy Act.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Globe and Mail: The TPP deal may be going south
The Prime Minister is gambling a lot on an agreement that could censor your Internet. Now it’s looking like that gamble will not pay off. Article by Barrie McKenna for The Globe and Mail Stephen Harper was in high spirits when the U.S. and the other members of the Trans-Pacific
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: EFF: New copyright provisions in the TPP are ridiculous
Ever created a meme that went viral? Hollywood wants you to go to jail for that. Article by Maira Sutton for EFF The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) poses massive threats to users in a dizzying number of ways. It will force other TPP signatories to accept the United States’ excessive copyright terms of a minimum
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Torrent Freak: EMI tried to take down a youtube video of a purring cat
You can’t make this stuff up. Article by Ernesto for Torrent Freak YouTube’s automated takedown tool is known for its flaws, but this week it crossed a line by attacking a purring cat. According to YouTube’s Content-ID system both EMI Publishing and PRS own the rights to a 12 second
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Daily Dot: The Internet is crashing the TPP’s party
Internet activists got all up in TPP negotiators’ faces yesterday. Article by Dell Cameron for The Daily Dot Fed up with secret meetings that will decide the future of trade for more than a dozen nations, a number of protesters swarmed a congressional hearing on the TPP Tuesday morning. read more
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Michael Geist: Stream video to your heart’s content
Worried about streaming video with a VPN? Don’t be. Article by Michael Geist The misuse of Canada’s new copyright notice-and-notice system has attracted considerable media and political attention over the past week. With revelations that some rights holders are requiring Internet providers to send notifications that misstate the law in an effort
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Oliver Milman reports on research showing how humanity is destroying its own environmental life support systems. And our appetite for exploitation is proving a failure even from the standpoint of the pursuit of shortsighted greed, as David Dayen considers how the recent drop
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Medium: Keep Aaron Swartz’s dream alive
Over two years ago, we lost Internet activist Aaron Swartz to suicide after he was relentlessly persecuted for alleged copyright infringement. Find out how you can best honor Aaron and keep his legacy alive. Article by Ben Wikler for Medium Today is two years and a day after the suicide
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Vice: Canadian government starting to ask copyright trolls to back off
U.S. copyright trolls think they can shake Canadians down for artificial fees. They’ve got another think coming. Article by Christopher Malmo for Vice Last week, the government said it would take action to clamp down on a torrent of misleading copyright infringement letters being sent out under Canada’s “notice-and-notice” copyright regime.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, January 13, 2014
Your news links for today: US and EU politicians use Charlie Hebdo attack to call for more Internet surveillance – Fusion UK prime minister wants backdoors into messaging apps or he’ll ban them – Ars Technica What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton and destroy the IT industry
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Mr. Moore, you had one job
Last week, we let you know about a series of outrageous notices that Canadian Internet users were receiving, some claiming that they could owe up to $150,000 in fines for allegedly downloading copyrighted material. These notices, issued by U.S. media giants and passed on through Canadian ISPs, want you to
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Stop Big Media’s Shakedown
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Canadians demanding James Moore take action to end media conglomerates’ $150,000 copyright shakedown
403×403-facebook.jpg U.S. media giants are sending Canadians threatening notices telling them they could face $150,000 lawsuits and get kicked kicked off the Internet – neither of which are possible under Canadian law January 13, 2015 – U.S. media giants are taking advantage of a loophole in Canada’s new copyright law
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