CanadaCan stern letters really stop Canadians from downloading illegally?Canada is taking a stab at stopping unauthorized downloading of digital content by sending notices
GeneralFilmmaker sues to use Happy Birthday without payment2010 academic article suggests copyright expired no later than 1963
CultureHow hit songs become advertising sound-alikes‘Please rip off the Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Lumineers’
TechnologyPrivacy commissioner denies Internet surveillance compromise with policeJesse Brown on why the online spying bill made a comeback
TechnologyJustin Trudeau’s geek factorJesse Brown evaluates the putative Liberal Leader hopeful’s record on digital policy
GeneralGoogle censors The Pirate BayThe world’s largest search engine has quietly expanded its list of censored search phrases, TorrentFreak reports. This week, they...
TechnologyGoogle fights piracy... except its own?The new search algorithm seems exceedingly kind toward YouTube
TechnologyGoogle, Facebook, Amazon and eBay go to WashingtonMeet the Internet Association, the big dot-coms’ lobby group
TechnologyHow copyright rules silenced Romney A great real-life example of how copyright can become censorship