Just a quick note here tonight – the copyright round tables and town halls are being archived here.
Immediate reaction after skimming the Vancouver transcript: pretty good! I’m impressed with the guest list, and some really useful things were said! I also think the gov’t will have a hard time introducing anouther C-61 after all this [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 28, 2009
Canadian Copyright Consultation transcripts online
July 21, 2009
Copyright Consultation details unfolding
Further to yesterday’s post about the Canadian copyright consultation, here are the details I know so far:
Library associations were among those invited to the roundtables…or at least the BC Library Association was invited to (and attended) the kickoff one in Vancouver.
There will be town hall meetings open to the pre-registered public in Montreal (July 30, [...]
July 17, 2009
Canadian info policy current events: copyright consultation in particular
Wow, there is so much stuff going on with the Canadian federal govt right now, it’s dizzying. I wonder why this is all taking place in summertime? Anyone know?
First of all, I don’t have time at the moment to write a long post about it, but Michael Geist has a nice summary of the CRTC’s [...]
July 15, 2009
Hark – PubMedCentral Canada on the horizon!
Thanks to Dean Giustini for the original heads-up on this:
In a press release titled “Canada joins international effort to provide access to health research,” the NRC (parent organization of CISTI, the de facto Canadian national library of science & medicine)
PubMed Central repository will open new pathway to Canadian health research
July 06, 2009, [...]
July 9, 2009
Conflating OA with other issues we like
At the 2nd International Public Knowledge Project Conference’s CLA pre-conference, a bunch of librarians and a few assorted others got together to talk about open access (OA). One thing I kept finding myself coming back to is something I’ve been thinking about for several months now: whether we who are advocating open access should perhaps [...]
July 6, 2009
Unicorns don’t exist; net neutrality is just distastefully fair
The top story on the CBC News website this evening is “Net Neutrality doesn’t exist, CRTC told.“
Laugh or cry?
Internet congestion is inevitable and net neutrality does not exist, Canada’s internet regulator was told Monday at hearings on how internet providers control and manage internet traffic and speed.
But here’s the best part:
Congestion is a natural occurrence [...]
