By Britt Dzioba on November 5, 2021 | Tagged with Copyright, intellectual property, open access
Sovereignty and Tradition: Indigenous Knowledge & Open Educational Resources What’s an OER? With rising publication costs and tuition fees, there is a movement challenging the exclusivity of academic research that contributes to educational inaccessibility. Academic publishing companies charge institutions thousands of dollars to lease the rights to the research that their own faculty and students […]
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By Monique Rodrigues on February 15, 2019 | Tagged with Copyright, Copyright Act, copyright infringement, Digital Identity Digest, facebook, media piracy, piracy, privacy, privacy breach, screen addiction, screen time
What is the best educational measure against piracy? Canada’s government has amended its Copyright Act to clarify that piracy notices can’t demand cash from Canadians. The piracy-notice system took effect in 2015, allowing “copyright holders to send warning emails to people suspected of illegally downloading content such as movies or music,” CBC explains. According to […]
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By Jason Cheung on December 11, 2018 | Tagged with Copyright, Government Control, In the News, ISP, surveillance, tax
A proposal by the Screen Composers Guild of Canada (SCGC) to The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, released on September 25, 2018, aims to introduce a ‘copyright tax’ on Internet use, according to the documents released by TorrentFreak [1] In the report [2], the SCGC proposed a tax collected by internet service providers “that is […]
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By Jason Cheung on June 7, 2018 | Tagged with Copyright, CRTC, fair dealing, fair play canada, fair use, Government Control, IPRA, Kramer, net neutrality, piracy, Power, Weinhardt, Wiewiorra
What is the IPRA? The Internet Piracy Review Agency (IPRA) is a proposed non-profit corporation by a coalition of companies including Bell Canada, Rogers, Cineplex, CBC, Corus, Toronto International Film Festival, and Cinémas Guzzo (collectively known as Fair Play Canada) to maintain a list of websites that have hosted or distributed pirated material and force […]
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By bryan short on October 15, 2017 | Tagged with Aaron Swartz, audio, Copyright, Creative Commons, digital tattoo podcast, intellectual property, michael geist, open access, podcast
The Digital Tattoo Podcast – Ep. 1 & 2: Copyright and Open Access The Digital Tattoo Podcast Project explores digital identity issues through interviews and investigations in an engaging audio format. Our first topic is copyright and open access at Canadian Universities. We’ll explore these topics after considering the life of Aaron Swartz, an American […]
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By Kathleen Kalk on November 16, 2010 | Tagged with Copyright, Publish, sharing
If you thought there was nothing to worrying about, you’re wrong. In a Minnesota courtroom this past month, single mother Jammie Thomas-Rasset, was ordered to pay 62,500 USD per song for 24 songs she illegally downloaded from KaZaA, a popular file sharing site. AFP reported that the total fine given was an astronomical 1.5 million dollars. […]
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By Kathleen Kalk on October 23, 2010 | Tagged with Copyright, open access, Publish, sharing
Despite all the ink dedicated to open access as a new publishing model it is in fact an old way. Take for example, Dr. Jonas Salk. Unknown thousands, maybe even you, owe their ability to walk to Dr. Salk. How so? He invented the vaccine for Polio in 1952. The research, creation, and funding of […]
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By Kathleen Kalk on October 23, 2010 | Tagged with Copyright, intellectual property, open access, Publish, sharing
If you have an interest in copyright law and have not already watched Rip!: A remix manifesto, you need to check it out. The director’s politics are a bit heavy handed but the point is eye opening: copyright law has not always been what copyright law is today. Using mash-up music artist Girl Talk as […]
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