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editor’s note: file this under “news that’s of interest to students of copyright law; copyright activists; the copyright-curious; and anyone who has ever created anything.”
International Activists Launch New Website to Gather and Share International Copyright Knowledge
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL.net), and other international copyright experts joined together today to launch [...]

Launch:
The Clinique juridique des artistes de Montréal (CJAM) will announce the first stage of its 2009 workshop schedule and launch public delivery of a legal information service with a special event at Le Cagibi (5490 St-Laurent) on Friday November 27th 2009. The doors will open at 6:30pm and the event starts at 7pm. The evening [...]

I wanted to quote extensively from this article by Phd student Geof Glass about the impending changes to Canadian copyright law and the ways they will affect our lives as creators and sharers and digital transmogrifyiers and private citizens. The laws proposed will go even further then American laws to restrict even educational rights, and [...]