Archive for category: Copyright

The Design Exchange and RBC propose to steal the work of “emerging designers”    (2013.04.08)

The so-called Emerging Designer Competition will allow the Royal Bank to do whatever it wants with entrants’ work

Correcting John Barber    (2012.07.31)

Globe and Mail publishing reporter John Barber allowed a serious factual error to creep into an article about the future of professional writers. But the Globe itself darkened that future

Copyright revision masquerading as defence of writers    (2011.11.04)

The Writers’ Union of Canada launches its own bill of rights for writers (“for the digital age”)

John McCoy: Typical American    (2011.06.25)

John McCoy isn’t just wrong but actively hypocritical about moral rights

Another article to remind you how famous General Idea was    (2011.05.22)

Instead of actually dissecting A.A. Bronson’s baseless “copyright” claims, the Toronto press runs yet another profile of the art supergroup that was always fabulous

Memo to Meera Nair    (2011.01.19)

Admit that Larry Lessig blew it. (He has)

Freelancers as panhandlers    (2010.03.16)

While I’m waiting for tens of thousands of dollars in a copyright-infringement settlement (now delayed), I’m pitching again for contributions to The Cranky Copyright Book. But there’s a payoff: The book is going to be published

When Creative Commons accomplishes nothing    (2010.03.11)

John Hilton III wrote an article claiming Creative Commons makes more derivative works possible. And on that score, he is quite wrong

‘Spacing’ Hissyfits readers    (2010.01.27)

Dapper Matt Blackett plans to republish blog comments in a book, without permission or payment, it seems