Michael Geist, law professor and Canadian expert on copyright and intellectual property issues, will be answering questions regarding those topics on the social networking site Reddit.
Geist is well known for his strong opinions on Canadian privacy, consumer rights, and his digital activism that stemmed the progress on the previous Copyright bill, C-61. Geist’s Facebook group Fair Copyright for Canada has over 80,000 active members. Those members played a key role in killing the previous copyright bill.
Geist’s current opinion is that Bill C-32 is flawed, but fixable. Ask him any and all questions about the copyright process tomorrow on Reddit!
The HST might just save you some money… if you shop across the border in Washington State. The Washington State Department of Revenue issued a press release today that clarified a portion of their tax law that will be advantageous to British Columbians and Ontarians as of July 1st. Put simply: when shopping in Washington State the residents of those provinces will no longer have to pay sales tax.
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The new Canadian DMCA would be great if it didn’t suck. It has specific inclusions to protect parody and satire, protects time and place shift, and does a lot of other great stuff. Except it won’t let you break a digital lock put on content from stopping you from exercising the very rights the bill gave you. With this provision in place you’ll never enjoy your gadgets and gear quite as much, ever again. It has to go.
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