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Judge Posner: Expand copyright to protect newspapers?

By Kristopher Nelson on Jun 29, 2009

Judge Posner recently suggested that copyright law might need to be expanded to protect the news industry, including barring linking to copyrighted content or paraphrasing it.

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Unravelling the Canadian Copyright Lobby

By Kristopher Nelson on Jun 24, 2009

Especially important to everyone in Canada – but important to everyone, since copyright and IP are increasingly international issues due to attempts at harmonization (WIPO, for example) – comes this expose by Michael Geist on the undue influence pro-copyright lobbyist organizations have had on Canadian policy documents.

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