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Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 01:37 AM PDT

Levy Links

Copyright

Levy Links

bullet ASAP CD Solutions - Andrea Kopplhuber 
bullet Canadian Government Copyright Board web site 
bullet CPCC (the bad guys)
bullet Sycorp web site's special levy section
bullet www.sycorp.com Petition Page
bullet Canadian Coalition for Fair Digital Access (some of the good guys)
bullet Canadian Taxpayers Federation (not directly related, but a good place to go)
bullet http://janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html A great article by an artist caught in the middle of the whole problem
bullet http://janisian.com/article-fallout.html a follow up to the one above, equally as good and informing

And some other related Links

bullet http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/juggling_with_packets.txt - you'll love this one - it shows how to store information in the "latency" inherent in the Internet and its servers and processes. I made the similar observation that large amounts of data can be stored in a beam of microwave energy bounced from the moon, and that this could lead CPCC to levy on microwave ovens - since they can be made to do this.
bullet http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200304/msg00129.html very readable link by a musician and Tim O'Reilly (of the book company)
bullet http://www.wipo.org/eng/diplconf/distrib/94dc.htm WIPO Treaty that started all this
bullet http://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/berne/overview.html The Berne Convention it (WIPO) is based upon
bullet http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/rp01100e.html The Canadian Copyright Reform web site
bullet http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/pics/rp/framework.pdf Framework for Copyright reform document (PDF)
bullet http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/pics/rp/digital.pdf Consultation Document on Digital Copyright (PDF)
bullet Copyright in a Frictionless World by Brendan Scott An excellent dissertation on the origins of copyright opens this eye-opening paper.
bullet http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/30/1072546532286.html Paper on the (minimal) effects of copying on CD sales.

 

Technology Related to Storage

bullet http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/news/20020611_millipede.shtml IBM's breakthrough storage technology - using dimples like punch cards but trillions of times smaller
bullet http://sci.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18172.html more on Millipede
bullet Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario called "Privacy and Digital Rights
Management (DRM): An Oxymoron?" http://www.ipc.on.ca/english/pubpres/papers/drm.pdf 

 

 

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