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Just submitted the following comment to The Creators’ Copyright Coalition article The Hockey Song? Blame Michael Geist. I’m often just as apt to do it, but it fascinates me how different people interpret the same vents differently. Remember your semiotics, all meaning is negotiated! Your article doesn’t make clear how refusal to pay for something… Continue Reading The Hockey Song, Blame Michael Geist?

Want to send Grandma a DVD (OK, maybe play for her a DVD) of the latest baby pictures with your favourite Beatles songs in the background? If Canada’s proposed update to copyright law makes it into law it will result in a $500 fine for Grandma and a $20,000 fine for Mom and Dad! The… Continue Reading Canada’s new Copyright proposals: how to make Grandma a criminal

I’m both excited and to be able to announce that Sakai will bro Brock’s next Learning Management System. Terry Boak, Brock University’s Vice-President Academic finally officially announced the move to an open-source Sakai-based Learning Management System (LMS) at Wednesday May 14th, University Senate meeting. Thus I feel I can now start blogging about it. This… Continue Reading Sakai to be Brock University’s next LMS

Campus Technology posted an interview they did with Matthew Small today. It’s very interesting in that it gives insight into his mindset with respect to the patent and he refers frequently to any perceived problem with the patent to be with software patent law itself, not Bb’s patent. It’s a good point, software and business… Continue Reading Matthew Small and Clare Respond to Bb patent developments

How’d I miss this? www.campustechnology.com/articles/60271/. Maybe it’s just as well that I didn’t post this around April 1st. Credit to Giulia for spotting it. There were 10 total issues raised in the reexamination request covering all 44 of the claims in the Blackboard patent. The process isn’t over, and the patent is technically still valid,… Continue Reading BlackBoard patents invalidated!