While many Canadians were justifiably preoccupied with the athletic achievements and disappointments taking place at the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, they may have overlooked the fact that Finance Minister…
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Can Capitalism and Collaboration Co-exist? Tech Sector Cross-licensing and the Emergence of ‘Cooperative Competition’
In this year’s State of the Union address, US President Barack Obama reaffirmed his Administration’s commitment to addressing economic inequality by fostering the jobs of the future: “We know that…
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Going the Way of the Doha? The TPP and Contested Intellectual Property and International Trade Linkages
It has been nearly twenty years since the Uruguay Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) trade talks that created the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement. In…
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Canadians #TalkTV: The Question Surrounding Digital Content Licensing
For the past month the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has been attempting to open its policy and regulation processes to the Canadian public. On October 24, CRTC Chair Jean-Pierre Blais…
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The Ever-Present Need for Canada’s ‘Digital Economy Strategy’
The 2013 Speech from the Throne seems like a distant memory. Ongoing allegations and revelations emanating from Canada’s Senate chamber have all but overshadowed the Government’s agenda, which Governor General…
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The Incredible, Vanishing Internet (and the DMCA)
In the time that it takes you to read this paragraph Google will have removed eight sites from its search engine indexes. Sorry, make that forty. (more…)