Monthly Archives: August 2009

My Comments at the Copyright Consultation Toronto Town Hall

August 29, 2009 12:57 pm by Blaise Alleyne — —

Thursday night, I had a chance to speak at the government’s Copyright Consultation Toronto Townhall. I’ll post more detailed thoughts shortly, but in the meantime, Nick Dynice was kind enough to upload a video of my comments to YouTube. I wasn’t expecting a chance to speak and hadn’t prepared much, but my name came up [...]

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The ‘Creative’ Technology Behind The AP’s News Registry

August 6, 2009 10:33 pm by Blaise Alleyne — —

This post originally appeared on Techdirt. The Associated Press’ attempt to DRM the news is a bad idea for a variety of reasons, but its claims for the news registry’s capabilities seem pretty misguided, once you examine the technology behind it (the “magic DRM beans”). Ed Felten dug into the details of the registry’s microformat, [...]

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