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14 Jun 2011, 11:52 pm
Howard Knopf reports that the Copyright Board of Canada has given Access Copyright until tomorrow to respond to the AUCC filing on transactional licences. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 2:08 pm
The Wire Report, May 6, 2011 by Howard Knopf http://bit.ly/k6QjUR For that tiny investment by Google standards, the company would have acquired a remarkable and likely insurmountable lead in the digitization and control of a database of all the world’s useful knowledge in book form, and a virtual monopoly on dealings with orphan works. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 12:35 am
Howard Knopf reports that the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) has filed an application to amend the Access Copyright interim tariff requiring it grant transactional or pay-per-use licences upon request. [read post]
25 May 2011, 3:32 am
Following the IPKat's citation of Howard Knopf's piece on Payback's attempt to claim the copyright symbol as a trade mark, the Kat has been reminded by reader Stewart Cameron that there is an IP practice which uses the symbol too -- albeit in a more discreet manner than Payback's. [read post]
23 May 2011, 3:20 am
With an unprecedented and possibly never-to-be-repeated admission that he is lost for words, the IPKat's friend and fellow blogger Howard Knopf records the horrific sight (above) of a copyright symbol being claimed as a trade mark. [read post]
18 May 2011, 11:51 pm
Howard Knopf points to Access Copyright's revised site design that includes a trademark notice on the © symbol. [read post]
13 May 2011, 11:17 pm
As Howard Knopf notes, the CPCC has just filed for the following levy: 50¢ for each electronic memory card with 1 gigabyte of memory or less, $1.00 for each electronic memory card with more than one gigabyte of memory but less than 8 gigabytes of memory, and $3.00 for each electronic memory card with 8 gigabytes of memory or more The financial impact of the levy would be significant. [read post]
13 May 2011, 4:39 pm
CANADA: Excess Copyright: about excess in Canadian and international copyright law, trademarks law and patent law (by Howard Knopf, a practitioner). [read post]
3 May 2011, 5:18 am
Within the context of third party liability and the extent, if any, to which internet service providers and hosts should bear responsibility for intellectual property infringements which they host or facilitate, fellow blogger Howard Knopf posed a question in Friday morning's session on "Rule of Law on the Internet: Feasible or Fantasy? [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 12:42 am
Howard Knopf reports that the NY Times has sent a cease and desist letter to a Canadian who wrote a short script that cracks its newly-erected paywall. [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 7:26 am
In response to a request for further information made by William New of the excellent and ever-reliable Intellectual Property Watch, which is based locally in Geneva, a spokesperson --who asked not to be identified by name -- explained that neither list has yet been ratified, but possible blogs for inclusion on the “A-List” include Howard Knopf’s Excess Copyright, which is known to have targeted the much-admired United States ‘301 reports’,… [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 5:06 pm
In response to a request for further information made by William New of the excellent and ever-reliable Intellectual Property Watch, which is based locally in Geneva, a spokesperson –who asked not to be identified by name — explained that neither list has yet been ratified, but possible blogs for inclusion on the “A-List” include Howard Knopf’s Excess Copyright, which is known to have targeted the much-admired United States ‘301… [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 4:48 am
The IPKat's friend Howard Knopf explains the story so far in characteristically forthright fashion on Excess Copyright here. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 9:50 pm
RCC counsel Howard Knopf, responded: Mr. [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 12:05 am
Howard Knopf posts 12 copyright law and reform predictions for 2011, with an emphasis on Canada. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 11:58 pm
The answer from a growing number of schools is that they are prepared to chart a new path that relies more heavily on emerging technologies and electronic access [as Howard Knopf notes, however, some schools are adopting a very restrictive interpretation of the law in charting this new path]. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 2:54 pm
Until the Supreme Court rules definitively on the subject, and resolves the uncertainties and disparities now pervading this area of the law, purveyors of foreign-made goods should adopt the mantra: caveat vendor".Writing from Canada, Excess Copyright blogger and internationally respected commentator Howard Knopf suspects that legislative intervention may be on the way: "This is a big setback for American retailers and consumers. [read post]
12 Dec 2010, 11:11 pm
As the fight over the proposed Access Copyright interim tariff heats up (Howard Knopf offers links to must-read submissions from many objectors), more Canadian schools are gearing up for life without the copyright collective. [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 6:34 am
Yesterday the IPKat was inspired by a spontaneous limerick from his friend Howard Knopf (lawyer, Excess Copyright blogger and a man who can probably spell 'Athabasca' without even needing to stop and count the 'a's). [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 8:54 pm
For reasons such as those outlined by Howard Knopf today on his blog (his earlier blog posting today can be found at: http://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2010/12/confrontation-at-copyright-board-big.html , there are compelling reasons why the Board could and should summarily dismiss this application at the outset. [read post]
