Five reasons why the link tax is still a bad idea
We’ve been campaigning for months against the benign-sounding “ancillary copyright”, or what we like to call the ‘link tax’. The tl;dr of how the law works as it’s cur...
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Five reasons why the link tax is still a bad idea
We’ve been campaigning for months against the benign-sounding “ancillary copyright”, or what we like to call the ‘link tax’. The tl;dr of how the law works as it’s cur...
Death of Hyperlink: The Aftermath
Must read: The free flow of information that journalist Hossein Derakhshan spent years in an Iranian jail for is dying. vHelp us #SaveTheLink: http://SaveTheLink.org Articl...
EU Consultation woes: is this thing on?
It’s been a busy month for digital policy initiatives at the European Commission. If you can believe it, they’re actually running six simultaneous public consultations on digital polici...
OpenMedia and the TPP: taking the fight to D.C.
Last week, OpenMedia joined a huge coalition of groups protesting the TPP in Washington, DC. The call to action, issued by FlushTheTPP brought together organizations and individuals from across ...
Michael Geist: The TPP is a Canadian Digital Policy Failure
University of Ottawa prof and Internet law expert Michael Geist explains why the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is one of Canada’s worst-ever policy moves. The post Michael Geist: The TPP…
Conservatives Announce Their Shadow Cabinet & Critic Roles
The Conservative Party announced its Shadow Cabinet and Critic roles today. Of the various MPs holding Oppositionroles there are six I will be in contact with in the immediate future…
CBC: What Facebook and Twitter ban: New tool tracks social media censorship
Have you ever had a post removed from Facebook,Twitter or Instagram? Whether it’s removing photos of women breastfeeding, or political speech being banned, social media sites get to decide what…
How European decision-makers could break the web
You may or may not live in the European Union but many of your favourite websites (and the tech that runs them) do. Decision-makers in Europe are considering proposals to…
Internet users set to flood public consultation to push back against proposals that would censor free speech and shut down Right to Link
Screen Shot 2015-11-16 at 16.21.33.png European Commission consultation on the role of online platforms could result in a costly new ‘Link Tax’ and monitoring of billions of posts a day…
Michael Geist: TPP Text Confirms Massive Loss to Canadian Public Domain
The just released Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) text confirms the “extension of the term of copyright to life of the author plus an additional 70 years.” For Internet law expert Prof…
Geist: Official Release of TPP Text Confirms Massive Loss to Canadian Public Domain
The final TPP text threatens Internet freedom and will force Canada to overhaul copyright. Here’s Michael Geist on what we can expect our copyright law to look like. Article by…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Mike Barber highlights how Canada’s federal election campaign was dominated by messages pushed from the top down rather than citizens’ concerns. Erna…
Michael Geist: Real Change on Digital Policy May Take Time Under New Liberal Government
Law professor and copyright expert Michael Geist suggests that the new Liberal government may wait until 2017 before implementing significant change to Canada’s telecom, broadcast, copyright, and privacy policies. The…
Guest Blog by Connie Fournier: With the TPP, Harper has “betrayed the core principles of conservatism”
Here is a guest blog from principled conservative Connie Fournier, co-founder of Free Dominion and long-standing supporter of OpenMedia. Connie looks at how the Trans-Pacific Partnership contravenes core conservative principles,…
Michael Geist: How the TPP Puts Canadian Privacy at Risk
Internet law expert Michael Geist explains how the Trans Pacific Partnership deal’s “several anti-privacy measures” would restrict the government’s ability to safeguards Canadian’s privacy rights, and sensitive personal information such…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Edward Keenan writes that a lack of affordable child care is the crucial financial pressure facing families across the income spectrum. And…
Is the Canadian Government Misleading the Public on the TPP Copyright Provisions?
Why we need to see the full text of the TPP and not just the edited summaries that various governments deem us worthy to have. Written by Michael Geist for…