re. software ownership

[Bob Chandler]

Sanjay,

Michael Geist's blog is an excellent source of information on these
issues.

Michael Geist is the Chair of Internet and E-Commerce law at the
University of Ottawa and probably the foremost authority (and critic) in
Canada on copyright and so-called "intellectual property" law.

Geist has a weekly column called "Law Bytes" that appears every Monday
in the business section of the Toronto Star.

Here's the link:

http://michaelgeist.ca/

The Canadian Music Creator's Coalition is a group composed of Canadian
musicians like Avril Lavigne, the Barenaked Ladies, Sarah McLachlan
(amongst others) who take the view that the record companies don't speak
for them (i.e. it's not a great idea for record companies to be suing
music fans).

Here's the link:

http://www.musiccreators.ca

A previous poster mentioned that this issue is "loaded".  Yup...it
definitely is! ;)

Bob





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> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:23:43 -0400
> From: "Sanjay Sodhi" <sanjay.sodhi at gmail.com>
> Subject: Software Ownership?
> To: "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community" <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Hi.
> 
> I'm writing a paper on software ownership, the legal implications of
> copyright "theft" and the like. My major focus is going to be on how
> downloading copyrighted music, software and movies is theft, and the fact
> that law has evolved to accommodate technological advances.
> 
> My question is, can anybody provide me with particularly good articles and
> the like that are particularly renowned for covering this topic?
> 
> Thanks.