The second part of my 3 part series of papers for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute on a new IP strategy for Canada is published today, here:.
Google v. Equustek
Canada’s Supreme Court recently heard arguments in Google v. Equustek, a case that will establish a critical precedent on how lawful the Internet should be. How should the court decide? My answer is here.
How to Really Support Canadian Culture: Heritage and the Copyright Brief
I just published, through the MacDonald Laurier Institute, a new paper on issues facing Heritage Canada in the upcoming (2017) Copyright Act review, and otherwise. It can be found here.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: IP and Electronic Commerce
I have recently taken up sparring in the arena of public opinion on the merits of the intellectual property chapter (18) and the electronic commerce chapter (14) of the newly negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership. I am greatly convinced of those merits in spite of nay-sayers like Jim Balsillie and Michael Geist. I rebutted their comments about the IP chapter first in an op-ed in the National Post. This led to writing and publishing, through the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a more comprehensive paper on the IP provisions. That led in turn to a second op-ed in the National Post, this time focusing on the electronic commerce provisions of the TPP, and to an interview on BNN. There seems to be a lot of misconceptions out there about the TPP and I hope I have helped to dispel them. Based on a review only of these two chapters, the TPP is a very good deal for Canada indeed and important step in freer trade in the region.