Monday, November 4, 2013

Readings for Nov. 11 - copyright & licensing

This is a long list of readings, but most are quite short and a number are websites to skim...

Geist, M. (2013) Introduction. The copyright pentalogy. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press. Free download here: http://www.press.uottawa.ca/sites/default/files/9780776620848_Introduction.pdf
(10 pages - brief introduction to one of the major currents in Canadian copyright law)

Government of Canada (2013). Crown copyright and licensing. Website. Retrieved Nov. 2013 from http://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/ccl/index.html

Government of Canada (2013). Open government license consultation report. Website. Retrieved Nov. 2013 from http://data.gc.ca/eng/open-government-licence-consultation-report
-  see also Scassa, T. (2012). Canada's new draft open government license. Retrieved Nov. 2013 from http://www.teresascassa.ca/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=113:canadas-new-draft-open-government-licence&Itemid=83

U.S. Government (n.d.). Copyright and other rights pertaining to U.S. government works. Website. Retrieved Nov. 2013 from http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (n.d.). What is intellectual property? Website. Retrieved Nov. 2013 from http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/

McLaren, C. (n.d.). Copyrights and copywrongs: interview with Siva Vaidhyanathan. Stay free! 20. Retrieved Nov. 2013 from http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/20/siva_vaidhyanathan.html
(Recommended: Vaidhyanathan's books Copyrights and Copywrongs, or The Anarchist in the Library.

Simeone, T. (2004). Indigeneous traditional knowledge and intellectual property rights. Ottawa: Parliament of Canada. Retrieved Nov. 2013 from http://www.parl.gc.ca/content/lop/researchpublications/prb0338-e.htm

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