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But the strangeness of copyright does not end there. Most people know of either the "public domain" (ideas that belong to the commons and are free to be replicated) and of copyrighted material. But ...

Section 4.1 of Bill C-11 nominally excludes user posts from CRTC regulation, which has led some MPs to incorrectly claim user content is protected. An extremely broad set of exceptions in 4.2 (2) ...

JUNE 23 2023 — Yesterday Bill C-18, The Online News Act received royal assent after passing through the House of Commons. The bill was first introduced in April 2022, and its final passage follows the ...

February 26, 2024 — Today the federal government introduced the Online Harms Act, Bill C-63. It comes years after the government's 2021 proposal for regulating online harms, which was met by ...

The Act is in response to years of calls from privacy advocates to bring Canada’s private sector privacy laws up to date, after countless data breaches and privacy violations that have been allowed to ...

Wholesale rates are the fees that independent ISPs pay to Big Telecom to access Internet networks to provide you choice and variety of internet services. These small ISPs buy Internet bandwidth in ...

Tech oligarchs are not normal business leaders. Their direct personal control over enormous resources more closely resembles the robber barons of the 19th century than the large industry leaders of ...

December 4, 2024 — Today Minister of Justice Arif Virani announced a split of the Bill C-63, The Online Harms Act. Parts One and Four, which cover the Online Harms Act itself, will move to pre-study ...

Since the Rogers-Shaw buyout was initially proposed in March 2021, OpenMedia and allies have delivered over 83,000 messages from concerned people in Canada calling on policymakers to block the ...

“This deal cannot be approved. Canadians already suffer from sky-high Internet prices. We need more competition in Canada – not less. Over the years, we've seen competitor after competitor swallowed ...

August 15, 2020 – In a decision released early this morning, the federal cabinet has declined to overrule a 2019 Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications (CRTC) decision to lower the wholesale ...