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Tag Archives: SOPA
I’ve written a book!
It’s called Copyfight: The global politics of digital copyright reform. It’s out now from University of Toronto Press. Here’s what you need to know. What’s it about? It’s the touching story of a young boy’s coming of age, but it’s also so, … Continue reading
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Tagged ACTA, Canada, Canada-US relations, copyfight, copyright, internet activism, SOPA, University of Toronto Press
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How vulnerable are intellectual-property provisions in trade agreements?
Original Research Week continues here in the Orangespace. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about intellectual-property provisions in trade agreements. (As have a number of other people.) We’ve gotten to a point in the global economy where it almost doesn’t … Continue reading
Posted in CPSA paper, TPP
Tagged ACTA, copyright, Fair Copyright for Canada, international trade, SOPA, TPP
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SOPA and online social movements: Thinking transnationally, acting locally
Just noticed that Susan Sell, a big influence on my own studies – her Private Power, Public Law (online for free at the link!) was one of the starting points for my dissertation – has cited me in an article on … Continue reading
Posted in ACTA, online activism, SOPA
Tagged ACTA, online social movements, SOPA
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What a century-old political science theory can tell us about the future of online activism (spoiler: a heck of a lot)
One of my old Carleton professors, Glen Williams, always used to make time in his first-year political science intro course to teach about Robert Michel’s Iron Law of Oligarchy, which Michels came up with almost a century ago, in 1911. … Continue reading
Posted in online activism
Tagged charismatic leadership, internet activism, Internet blackout, iron law of oligarchy, occupy-wall-street, online activism, SOPA
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Canadian copyright and the rise of user rights
With Bill C-11 (legislative summary) moving ever-closer to Royal Assent, Michael Geist has a must-read post about how regular Canadians’ helped to make the final Conservative bill a lot more user-friendly than they had planned way back in 2007. For … Continue reading
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