You can now view the University of Waterloo's Gazette feature article on copyright from May 16, 1979, on my web site. I became interested in this article when I first saw it on the Today in UW history web page. The page describes Canada's copyright law as "antiquated", which many would agree holds true today. Hopefully you will find this article useful for analyzing how copyright law was in the past and how it has adapted to meet new technologies. This article is especially relevant now with a new copyright bill likely to be tabled within the next 4 weeks (or maybe not). Those interested in doing something about Canadian copyright law should join a group like Waterloo Students for the Information Commons or Digital Copyright Canada.
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February 9, 2010
- 03:38 UTC: ossguy posted, "Follow up to http://identi.ca/notice/20052673 : http://bit.ly/bhHkwy Better, but default deny sets a dangerous precedent. #SourceForge"
- 02:34 UTC: ossguy posted, "Scary (WARNING: crashes browser if running #Flash) - Crash your Flash: http://flashcrash.dempsky.org/ Why no fix, #Adobe? (via @singpolyma)"
February 6, 2010
- 04:18 UTC: ossguy posted, "Went to Eben #Moglen talk at #NYU tonight. "Freedom box" is neat idea. Lots of familiar faces: @biella, @kaz, @ninapaley, @stark, @mecredis"
- 04:09 UTC: ossguy posted, "I guess #Theora decoder written for #Silverlight is good: http://ur1.ca/llhe Suppose non-free runtime on Windows not big deal (via @brionv)"
February 5, 2010
- 12:07 UTC: ossguy posted, "RT @claudeb Internet Explorer: it really does allow the Internet to explore your computer! http://ur1.ca/lit0 (*cries*)"
February 4, 2010
- 12:17 UTC: ossguy posted, "@RyanFox I've added it; downloaded in <4 minutes. Now to wait for downloaders. Any other suggestions?"
- 03:10 UTC: ossguy posted, "@millette Any specific .torrent URLs you'd recommend seeding? If I had time to browse, I would, but instead I'll let you (and others) pick."
- 03:02 UTC: ossguy posted, "Noticed that my #BitTorrent server is seeding less than 1GB/day. This must be fixed. Which freely-licensed music/books/ISOs should I add?"
February 2, 2010
- 03:10 UTC: ossguy posted, "#Firefox for #N900 is out of beta: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/mobile/1.0/releasenotes/ Thanks, #Mozilla! Generative phones are awesome."
- 02:53 UTC: ossguy posted, "@evan 140. It maintains compatibility with #SMS and #Twitter and also keeps messages concise so they're easy to scan through."
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