Author Archives: bhaggart

Cutting Copyright’s Red Tape

Posted on August 18, 2011 by bhaggart

One other thing: John Degen’s one-sided opinion piece (is that redundant?) inadvertently highlights the absolutely vital need for Canada’s Copyright Act to be simplified so that anybody can understand it. As Degen points out, in the absence of a blanket … Continue reading →

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Access Copyright: The Globe and Mail’s One-Sided Story

Posted on August 18, 2011 by bhaggart

I don’t quite know where to start with John Degen’s attack in the Globe and Mail on the decision of 26 educational institutions (and counting) to opt out of Access Copyright (which collects royalties for Canadian authors mainly from Canadian educational institutions, after … Continue reading →

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Google and the evil that lobbyists do?

Posted on August 16, 2011 by bhaggart

I’m looking forward to reading Robert Levine’s Free Ride: How the Internet Is Destroying the Culture Business and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back, although I’ll probably wait until our library here at ANU orders it. At $28.95 for … Continue reading →

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In praise of evidence-based copyright policy

Posted on August 3, 2011 by bhaggart

When I started studying copyright policymaking several years ago, what surprised me most was the the almost complete lack of empirical evidence underlying both existing copyright law and copyright-reform proposals. I’m talking about impartial economic analyses of the effects of … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Treaties

Posted on July 26, 2011 by bhaggart

Big(ish) copyright news out of Canada and Mexico that serves as a timely reminder of the central role of trade negotiations in promoting harmonized intellectual property laws. Canadian and European trade negotiators are apparently closing in on a comprehensive economic … Continue reading →

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