Christopher Leger

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“This is a film about how copyright has become one of the most important consumer issues of the digital age; why corporate lobbying risks criminalizing the actions of hundreds of thousands of people; and what the future holds for the fight for fairer copyright laws.” more at http://www.youtube.com/user/Consumersintl

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Canadian copyright lobbyists seem to misunderstand the idea of intellectual integrity. They have done what countless lobbyists do – namely, hire an independent academic and expect that the expert will validate their argument. However, in this case, the expert did not report what the lobbyists wanted to hear, and they summarily replaced his report with [...]

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Copyright has absolutely nothing to do with any national security threats, and to suggest that it does undermines real national security issues as well as any faith in fair and open government. The Obama administration has continued the Bush administration policy of holding information regarding ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a trade treaty, outside of [...]

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This Week in Tech episode 183 is officially the best TWiT ever. The panel has a very rational and intellectually honest discussion on a wide range of intellectual property issues, and doesn’t contain any of the business-side, inside baseball, filler that Dvorak or Calicanis bring up. Honestly, it is the best hour and a half [...]

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Ars Technica alerted me to a very heartening story about a Harvard Law class defending a Boston University student against an RIAA filesharing lawsuit. These students are the future of the legal profession, and they themselves understand how technology can impact the law, regardless of the tactics the RIAA use in the future. The two [...]

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With another Obama administration official coming straight from the Biden/RIAA wing of the Democratic party, it appears less and less likely that the Obama administration will be anywhere near as consumer friendly as even the Bush administration was. I think that the odds are better than average that we may look back at Kevin Martin’s [...]

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The digital age is challenging the way intellectual property is controlled, and it is the right time for copyright laws and policy to be rethought. The plan that makes the most sense to me is one that addresses the concerns I have heard over and over in many places from many people, including (but not [...]

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