Earlier this week, Dr. Ficsor posted a blog inviting Canada to join the international community by ratifying the WIPO Internet Treaties. Dr. Ficsor is an internationally revered copyright scholar and professor and the former Assistant Director General of WIPO. As his posting pointed out, he was also responsible for organizing the preparatory work of the two Treaties, for the 1996 Diplomatic Conference adopting them, and for the first efforts to achieve their adequate implementation, There is no one on the planet who knows more about the treaties or what was intended by them than him.
Posts Tagged ‘WIPO Treaties’
Dr. Ficsor is right; Prof. Geist is wrong about the WIPO Internet Treaties
December 23rd, 2009Posted in Copyright, TPMs, WIPO Treaties
Tags: barry sookman Copyright copyright reform digital locks ficsor geist tpms wct WIPO WIPO Treaties wppt
Dr. Ficsor: An invitation to Canada to join the international community by ratifying the WIPO Internet Treaties
December 21st, 2009Geneva, December 21, 2009: An invitation – presented to Canada to join the international community by ratifying and duly implementing the WIPO “Internet Treaties” – that should not be turn down
Posted in ACTA, Copyright, Piracy, TPMs, WIPO Treaties
Tags: barry sookman canada Copyright copyright reform ficsor geist WIPO WIPO Treaties
Canada’s embarrassing place in the BitTorrent rankings, Torrentz.com and IsoHunt world leaders
December 15th, 2009TorrentFreak just published its Top 25 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2009. The list is based on traffic rank reports from Compete, Alexa and SiteReport’s World Rank.
Out of the top 25, 7 of them are located or have connections to Canada. Of the top 10, 4 are located or have connections to Canada. This means that Canada, alone, is home to more than 25% of the world’s public English language unauthorized BitTorrent sites and 40% of the leading ones are in Canada. The sites and their rankings according to TorrentFreak are:
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