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Copyright term extensions might be coming to Canada

This jumps off our discussions from last week. According to this post by Michael Geist, a law professor at the University of Ottawa and one of the foremost Canadian experts in this area, it looks as though Canada may be considering extending its copyright terms as part of its negotiations in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Treaty (TPP): “If […]

The Digital World Reviving Old News

The Digital World Reviving Old News

Today in class, we briefly discussed how the BCTV footage of the 1994 Stanley Cup riots is available on YouTube, and how the digital age has a memory that seems to predate the (widespread) digital age. There was an even more amazing example of that memory which came out just today. The handwritten notes of Dr. Alan Turing — the […]