I’m going to show you how to be a millionaire. First, draw a line on a piece of paper. Great. You have just created a one-dimensional world. In this world,…
Year: 2008
Mashups, Fair Use and Community Standards
Mashup culture continues to expand and proliferate, especially in the online word. Many audience members are no longer content merely to consume media, but actively comment on it, interact with…
Effective Copyright Online – Drawing from Tariff 22 and 22A
Illegal file trading will likely exist on the internet for the foreseeable future. As a result we are faced with the challenge of upholding the notions of copyright online or…
All Mixed Up: Scrabulous and the Realpolitik of IP
In 2005, two brothers in Kolkata, India launched Scrabulous, an online implementation of the board game Scrabble. With a few thousand regular players, it wasn’t about to replace World of…
Europeans Crush “California Champagne”
Its not often that a small country like Belgium would have the bravado to take on the world’s superpower. But earlier this year David literally crushed Goliath in a geographical…
Music Previews: Should Use of a Marketing Tool be Considered Fair Dealing for the Purpose of Research?
In October 2007, the Copyright Board of Canada rendered a decision regarding tariffs payable to SOCAN by online music services.[1] As part of the Board’s decision it concluded that music…