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Not because i was too young but im not sure what i was, so i just remember sort of vaguely coming to law and this was like this cool area, jamie boil is a very close friend and it seemed like he was just intellectually playful and too cool for anything that i did. David you note the sense of sort of gee whizness. Its the most attractive thing to me coming from fields where the general action is pistols at dawn. So this is in some sense a very strange conversation about the future of this field that has a certain sense about staking ownership intellectually in the next camp. And ryan, i think t...

Is the way i look at it. The lines are drawn. I thought of that last night. You know, the lines are drawn, the winners and losers are clear. If you two this way, here are the party who is go Everybody Knows what everybody else is going to say. Its all been laid out. And this is reminding me of what it was like in 1995 in cyber law when that was not true. And this is a real opportunity. Its a fabulous opportunity. Just as it was in 19 t 5, youre behind the vail of ignorance. So you can think about rule making and law without the winners and the losers piling in and fighting over it purely as a ...

Sharing 'fair dealing' not 'circumvention of technological protective measure' under Copyright Act

Michael Geist Pig Hogger (Slashdot reader #10,379) reminds us that in Canadian law, "fair use" is called "fair dealing" — and that Canadian digital media users just enjoyed a huge win. Canadian user rights champion Michael Geist writes: The Federal Court has issued a landmark decision on co...

The Canadian Radio, Television, and Telecommunications Commission requires streamers to contribute 5% of revenue to local broadcasting.