10 Sep, 2008: Proposed Copyright Law a ‘Gift’ to Hollywood, Info Groups Say (Wired)
"If the Senate version becomes law, it is not immediately clear how the Justice Department's expanded powers would work in practice. For example, would the department assume the role of the Recording Industry Association of America, which has sued more than 30,000 people in the United States for copyright infringement since 2003?..."

15 May, 2008: US Congress Cites Free Expression as Reason ICANN Must Remain Controlled by US Govt.
US Congressmen are up to their old tricks of pretending to care about free expression publicly, while undermining it's practice with their policy decisions -- especially when it comes to free speech on the Internet. Congressman Edward Markey, the Chairman of the Congressional Sub-committee on Telecommunications and the Internet sent a letter urging the US Government to refuse ...

12 May, 2008: Crown copyright is overdue for retirement (Toronto Star)
"...Given the significant costs associated with a program that does more harm than good and that appears susceptible to political manipulation, any new copyright reform should eliminate Crown copyright and adopt in its place a presumption that government materials belong to the public domain to be freely used without prior permission or compensation."

30 Apr, 2008: CIPPIC Submission on ACTA to Canadian Government
The content of ACTA could have significant implications for Canada. Counterfeiting activity harms Canadian consumers and Canadian trade. All Canadians endorse the dedication of appropriate law-enforcement resources to addressing trade-debilitating commercial infringement. However, intellectual property policy equally touches on important policy frameworks governing innovation, privacy, security, trade, creativity and freedom of expression. Enthusiasm to address the harms legitimately attributed ...

25 Apr, 2008: USTR Press Release on 2008 Special 301 List
Report Highlights US Industry Desire for More Restrictive Intellectual Property Protection, Acknowledges Compliance by Some US Trading Partners....

25 Apr, 2008: Canada Remains in Good Company in USTR Special 301 Report (Micheal Geist)
"The U.S. Trade Representative has released its annual Special 301 report, in which it criticizes dozens of countries over their intellectual property laws while ignoring its own shortcomings. Despite demands from the copyright lobby that Canada be placed on the "Priority Watch List," Canada is again on the lower level Watch List along with 35 other countries including Norway, ...

13 Feb, 2008: No One Likes a Bully: the IIPA and Canada (William Patry)
"Despite the use of the word “International” in its name, the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) is an umbrella group comprised of 7 U.S. trade associations: the Association of American Publishers, Business Software Alliance, Entertainment Software Association (video game industry), The Independent Film & Television Alliance, The Motion Picture Association of America, National Music Publishers’ Association, and Recording Industry Association ...

16 Jan, 2008: US Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Orphan Works” Case (Library Journal)
"The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of Kahle v. Ashcroft, brought by Internet Archive and Open Content Alliance founders Brewster Kahle and Rick Prelinger in 2003, which challenged the constitutionality of the current copyright regime. Although not unexpected, the Supreme Court's refusal comes after a recent ruling by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals raised hopes ...

2 Dec, 2007: PC World Names the Most Anti-Tech Organization in America (PC World)
These groups line up against tech interests in courtrooms and corridors of power across the country: RIAA & MPAA, Big Pharma, BioTech, BigTelco, Verizon, AT&T, Progress & Freedom Foundation, large wireless carriers. Read Mark Sullivan's analysis...

27 Nov, 2007: A new copyright law is coming to Canada
"Ottawa copyright circles are buzzing with hints that the government is preparing its new revised copyright bill, and will be tabling it soon, perhaps as early as next week. And the buzz is that the new law will basically be a copy of the controversial U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Much in the as-yet-unseen bill will not ...

24 Nov, 2007: WTO Panel on Chinese Content Distribution Delayed (IP-Watch)
"The formation of a World Trade Organization panel requested by the United States on China’s distribution of American copyrighted material was delayed this week after a procedural move on an unrelated matter. The US panel request was to be considered by the WTO Dispute Settlement Body on 19 November, but the agenda for the meeting was blocked by Taiwan ...

2 Nov, 2007: Canadian Gov’t Commissioned Study Finds P2P May Increase Sales (Globe & Mail)
"Industry Canada, a ministry of the federal government, released a surprising study of peer-to-peer file-sharing on the music industry. The study is called The Impact of Music Downloads and P2P File-Sharing on the Purchase of Music: A Study for Industry Canada, and was written by Birgitte Andersen and Marion Frenz, of the Department of Management at the University ...

20 Oct, 2007: Canadian Copyright Rules Might Follow US Model (National Post)
Reform likely to mean stricter enforcement. A single sentence on copyright reform in Tuesday's Speech from the Throne spoke volumes about what the future of managing digital media could look like in Canada and suggested a U.S.-style amendment to the Copyright Act is on the way. Legal experts say this suggests reforms that could ultimately harm some consumers ...

27 Sep, 2007: China ‘regrets’ US repeated IPR complaint to WTO (China Daily)
"China regrets that the United States has appealed to the World Trade Organization (WTO) for the second time to set up an expert panel to investigate US complaints that China is failing to do enough to protect intellectual property rights (IPRs), a Chinese government spokesman said on Thursday. The Chinese government would actively respond to the US request and ...

25 Sep, 2007: WTO takes up US complaint against China patent regime (AFP)
""We strongly oppose the US attempt to impose on developing members through this case," China said in a statement. ... Beijing said the case went beyond what was prescribed in the "TRIPS" agreement among the 151 WTO members, which covers intellectual property and trade. ..."