Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

What kinds of conversations are you having inside CCC and with external stakeholders about generative AI? Resource.org case with a great deal of interest; I am talking with a bunch of folks about the impact that is having on Standards Development Organizations’ (SDOs) licensing, development, and sustainability practices. CCC: Hi, Roy.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 10, 2024

The FAIR principles are designed to address the necessary steps to make research data and the metadata attached to it FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). The second post in our series explores how Ringgold data and metadata are Accessible. http/s and ftp/s are both open protocols.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 9, 2024

Billed as “securing Canada’s AI Advantage” , the plan includes promises to spend $2 billion on an AI Compute Access Fund and a Canadian AI Sovereign Compute Strategy that is focused on developing domestic computing infrastructure. Rather, there are hard questions about the use and outputs of copyrighted works by generative AI systems.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Canadian digital law and policy in 2023 was marked by so many legislative battles that you needed a scorecard to keep track: Bill C-11 on online streaming, Bill C-18 on online news, and Bill C-27 on privacy and AI were the headliners, but there were notable developments on content regulation, competition, and a digital services tax.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC), Frank Cullen, and features a Board of Directors comprised of bipartisan frontrunners in the IP realm. A new intellectual property (IP) organization launched today will be headed by former vice president of U.S. The Board includes former U.S.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Just over one week ago, Professor Adam Mossoff of the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University published a Policy Memo with the Hudson Institute charging that some of the key data relied upon in the heated debate over the effects of pharmaceutical patents on drug pricing and access may be faulty.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Canadian digital law and policy in 2022 was marked by legislative battles over Bills C-11 and C-18, the Rogers outage, stalled privacy and AI reform, copyright term extension, and a growing trade battle with the U.S. over Canadian policies. The podcast can be downloaded here , accessed on YouTube , and is embedded below.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The political and policy battles over lawful access have been going on for decades, cutting across multiple governments both Liberal and Conservative. The government plans to revisit its plans for online harms, but the lawful access issue is sure to return. Credits: CBC News, Online Surveillance Bill Backlash.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

We’re pleased to inform you that the DPIIT IPR Chair of the Inter University Centre for IPR Studies at the Cochin University of Science and Technology and the Third World Network are jointly organizing a free webinar on “Trade Secret and Access to Medicine ” on September 22, 2021. Trade Secret and Access to Medicine.

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The IPKat

APRIL 14, 2024

but it does care about the environment! Ali Malik addresses "SDG 2: zero hunger, food and plant-related intellectual property, and access to plant genetic resources." He highlights how activism from Indian farmers and civil society groups shaped global policy around plant variety protection and food security. That's not a Kat.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 2, 2023

As a result, many companies are developing corporate policies on employee use of AI. This policy does not mean that technological tools cannot be part of the creative process – what matters is the extent to which the human had creative control over the work’s expression and “actually formed” the traditional elements of authorship.

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Michael Geist

MAY 27, 2022

Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne unveiled the government’s proposed new telecom policy directive yesterday, hailing it as a “ historic step.” Universal access also falls into the same status quo, with the CRTC directed to “continue” implementing its Broadband Fund.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The amendment comes as a policy objective, meaning that it will fall to the CRTC to determine how to implement it. If the CRTC implements, the policy will surely be challenged as unconstitutional. The amendment states: “ (r.1) The government voiced its opposition to the amendment, but it passed 7-5 with two abstentions.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Food and Drug Administration (FDA), expressing concern about policymaking on drug patents and drug prices being driven by a narrative rooted more in policy goals than in actual data. I-MAK has become very popular; its drug patent numbers are invoked as fact by congresspersons, academics, congressional witnesses, and policy activists.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 23, 2024

The FAIR principles are designed to address the necessary steps to make research data and the metadata attached to it FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). This data maintenance is done in accordance with rigorous, up-to-date editorial policies, and changes are structured, tracked, and made available within the dataset.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The past year has been an incredibly active one for Canadian digital law and policy with legislative battles over Bill C-10, controversial consultations on online harms and copyright, important Supreme Court decisions, new digital taxes, and an emerging trade battle with the United States. Updates on the podcast on Twitter at @Lawbytespod.

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 8, 2022

Rogers has provided some answers to the many questions about its massive outage last month that affected millions of Canadians. Yet there is still considerable uncertainty about what the government and CRTC are prepared to do to address ongoing concerns in the telecom sector. Updates on the podcast on Twitter at @Lawbytespod.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 17, 2024

The FAIR principles are designed to address the necessary steps to make research data and the metadata attached to it FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). Meta)data use a formal, accessible, shared, and broadly applicable language for knowledge representation. 

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IPilogue

JANUARY 28, 2022

During the first semester of my 3L year, I was placed at the Department of Canadian Heritage (PCH), Copyright Policy Branch for ten weeks through the IP Law & Technology Intensive Program. Analyzing the views of stakeholders is an essential aspect of a policy analysts’ role. This article shares my experience during my time at PCH.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As I’ve previously written, for many years after the DMCA passed, everyone assumed that 17 USC 512(a) completely shielded Internet access providers from liability for subscribers’ copyright infringements. If 512(a) provided full immunity, the Copyright Alert System was unnecessary and pernicious to both IAPs and their subscribers.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 1, 2024

In countries where internet access faces restrictions, from general government censorship through to more limited site-blocking programs to protect copyright, citizens have grown comfortable with the use of VPNs. VPNs capable of tunneling to the nearest pirate site or accessing the extremists of Instagram, remain popular in Russia.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As uncanny — to some — as it may seem, the scholarly publishing world will soon be entering its third decade of cohabitation with the Open Access movement. On a personal note, and IIRC, not long after reading about the Berlin Declaration, I prepared a report for my management about ‘this new OA thing.’

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 28, 2023

by guest blogger Jess Miers, Legal Advocacy Counsel at Chamber of Progress [Eric’s intro: last year I blogged about Minnesota’s flirtation with mandatory age verification. This year is a glaring reminder of the consequences of passing terrible Internet policy through state legislatures. At least in the U.S., “age

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 12, 2023

Across job roles and verticals, employees reported that weekly access to at least 7.5 The use of collaboration tools as the preferred method of sharing work-related information more than doubled since the 2020 survey, while email attachments dropped by about 15%.

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Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Learn more about CCC’s Open Scholarly Publishing Solutions. Transition to Open Access: Tackling Complexity and Building Trust. In a recent CCC seminar series, two scholarly publishing experts shared their experience with open access transformation. It requires data.” – Matthew Day, Cambridge University Press .

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 25, 2023

We produce these surveys to help those responsible for copyright compliance, such as legal counsel and information/knowledge managers, see how knowledge workers access and share information. Executives have the highest level of awareness about copyright policy, but their own sharing practices aren’t always aligned with those policies.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It’s been a dizzying stretch since the launch of Chat GPT, with artificial intelligence regulation and policy bursting forward as top concern in Canada and around the world. The podcast can be downloaded here , accessed on YouTube , and is embedded below.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As I wrote previously : lawsuits against IAPs are problematic for many reasons, including the failure of 512(a), the danger of assuming that notices of claimed infringements (NOCIs) actually reflect infringing behavior, and the mismatch between the wrongdoing of alleged copyright infringement and the remedy of terminating Internet access.

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SpicyIP

JULY 1, 2021

Of late, there have been multiple reported cases of suicides by students (see here and here ) on account of lack of access to the means of education. Further, only around a quarter of Indian families have access to the internet, according to estimates. This percentage reduces to 15% in rural homes. Image from here.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 7, 2023

Here are the key takeaways from the Seyfarth webinar: Staying Informed about Technology Threats: Employers must stay up to date with the latest technology employees can use to misappropriate sensitive data. Organizations must ensure that their policies address the unique circumstances of virtual and hybrid work environments.

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Trading Secrets

JULY 7, 2023

Here are the key takeaways from the Seyfarth webinar: Staying Informed about Technology Threats: Employers must stay up to date with the latest technology employees can use to misappropriate sensitive data. Organizations must ensure that their policies address the unique circumstances of virtual and hybrid work environments.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

This Friday, November 5, the Iowa Innovation, Business & Law Center will be hosting a first-of-its-kind event (to the best of my knowledge at least): a panel discussion by patent law casebook authors about what makes their textbooks tick. Wasserman Rajec, & Andres Sawicki, Patent Law: An Open Access Casebook (2021).

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The IPKat

AUGUST 31, 2023

Privacy: AI can allow individuals to be identified and personal information about them to be used in ways beyond what the public wants. Access to Data: The most powerful AI needs very large datasets, which are held by few organisations. Policy makers must anticipate and manage the disruption.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 18, 2023

The Broadcasting Act provides guidance on the kinds of content to be found on CBC, but there is an important difference between general policy objectives and specific involvement over editorial content. That debate distracts from serious underlying problems with government media policy and the public broadcaster.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 3, 2023

Recently, CCC’s Jamie Carmichael hosted an interactive webinar to share insights from the report about the complexities and challenges in metadata management across the research lifecycle. Click below to listen to the latest episode of the Velocity of Content podcast.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 1, 2023

According to the 2023 Information Seeking and Consumption Study, executives report the highest level of copyright awareness (91%) but are most likely to share in ways not allowed by their companies’ own policies. Executives report that they depend on an average of 9.4 and individual contributors (4.5). Executives should lead by example.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MAY 1, 2022

An Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) (also known as a Fair Use Policy) is a set of rules applied by the owner, creator or administrator of a network, website, or service that restricts the ways in which the network, website, or service may be used and sets guidelines as to how it should be used. What is covered in an AUP?

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