Digital Piracy (Part 2) – Canadian Copyright Law: Fair Use and Fair Dealing in Canadian Law
In the last part of our series, we looked at what Piracy was, and saw that it was dependent on the legal copyright protection of works within a country. Now let’s take a look at what Canadian law says about copyright and copyright protection. The Copyright Act of Canada, signed in 1921, establishes the […]
DT Podcast – Episodes 1 & 2: Copyright and Open Access, now available
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 […]
The Digital Tattoo Podcast: Episode 1 and 2 about Copyright and Open Access are now available
We’ve been working on bringing you the same exciting digital identity content in a new format. Introducing: The Digital Tattoo Podcast 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 themes after […]
“Could you patent the sun?”
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 […]
Copyright Cowboy
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 […]
Anonymity tested – Wikileaks under fire
Gone are the days of uncontested truth. Hegel’s thesis – antithesis – synthesis is unfolding in front of our eyes as the continued evolution of the information society unfolds. If we consider media conglomeration and state surveillance as the thesis stage of a new era of social organization, Wikileaks just might be its antithesis for […]
Editing the controversial – Wikipedia taking new steps
Wikipedia announced recently that it will make it possible for a broader swath of users to edit controversial subjects on the site whose pages are locked due to abuse and political manipulation. Generally, any reader can edit a page, but there are certain people and topics that the Wiki masterminds do not allow ‘editing’ of […]
Digital Divide Goes Deep
The digital divide debate has been going in a major way since the 1970’s. Back then it was an ideological divide on the floor of UNESCO at the United Nations. Today, it is simply a stark reality between states that are rich and states that are poor. While every new technology has a global lag […]
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