Over the weekend, the Globe and Mail carried a piece about copyright piracy and the movies. The article stimulated discussion from Michael Geist and Rob Hyndman.
Update: [January 15, 9:15 am]
There is a report that Swedish firm The Pirate Bay is considering purchasing its own country in order to escape international copyright agreements. The owner of Sealand, a former military platform 7 miles off the coast of England, declared independence in 1967 and won a favorable court ruling that Britain could not claim sovereignty.
I’ll leave it to you to skip to their pieces. My contribution would be to also steer you to an interesting copyright case involving chocolate. It seems that Kraft has been using its Canadian rights to the artwork on a label as a means to restrict a Quebec company that has been importing the same chocolate on its own and undercutting Kraft’s price.
Can Kraft limit the ability of a company to sell chocolate that it has legally purchased in another country and imported it to Canada? Implications for DVDs, music, TVs, watches.
It is another twist to add to the intellectual property debate. Globalization and free markets – what are reasonable limits?
Update: [January 15, 9:15 am]
There is a report that Swedish firm The Pirate Bay is considering purchasing its own country in order to escape international copyright agreements. The owner of Sealand, a former military platform 7 miles off the coast of England, declared independence in 1967 and won a favorable court ruling that Britain could not claim sovereignty.
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