This week in the Round-up: Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill, 2015, are due on 16 April, what Canadians should do if they receive a copyright infringement notification and Village Roadshow wants to work with ISPs instead of suing movie pirates.
In this MsLods Round-up: It News reports that site blocking could have unintended consequences, Billboard reports on the lawsuit over the price of Happy Birthday and Ars Technica writes about the EU plans to banish geo-blocking to modernize copyright law.
This week in the MsLods Round-up: The Conversation asks can you copyright a feeling? Copyright trolls rush in to take advantage of Canadian notice system loopholes, reports Techdirt and The Guardian reports that Malcolm Turnbull has put a plan for media ownership reform on the PM’s desk.
“The only thing the data-retention law is requiring is that types of metadata which are currently retained will be retained in the future for at least two years,” Turnbull told ABC radio on Wednesday.
Back in October last year, the Attorney-General also stated that the data retention laws will not “involve anything beyond what the telcos do at the moment.”
These false assurances from our senior politicians is infuriating spin.