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Gemini Award-winning reporter David Akin is the National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service and is based at the CNS Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Saturday, March 26
Do you have a First Amendment or not?
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DavidAkin
on Sat 26 Mar 2005 08:55 PM EST
Journalists in Canada are envious of their American cousins because of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Canada has no such protection for journalists enshrined in its Constitution. The U.S. amendment reads:
[The U.S.] Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free ... more »
Electronic Entertainment Policy Initiative
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DavidAkin
on Sat 26 Mar 2005 07:37 PM EST
 Internet activist, privacy protector, computer geek , and hog fan Lauren Weinstein (left) is up to no good again. This time he's trying to pull opposing factions in the digital content copyright debate together to find solutions to some tricky problems. He's calling it the Electronic Entertainment Policy Initiative:
Announcing ... more »
Canadian copyright reform initiatives released to cautious acclaim
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DavidAkin
on Sat 26 Mar 2005 05:01 PM EST
Ottawa plans to overhaul Canadian copyright law this spring. Unlike the U.S. Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), which many critics believed tipped the balance too far towards rights holders, the Canadian initiative seems to strike a balance and, of some note, was written with an eye towards a peer-to-peer universe:
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Blogs are the norm for just 3 per cent of us
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DavidAkin
on Sat 26 Mar 2005 04:36 PM EST
Reading blogs (and probably posting to your own or a pal's) is probably second nature to you. That's why you're reading these words, of course.
But some new surveys suggest that blogging and blogs have yet to have the mainstream impact their enthusiasts believe they will: "A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll ... more » |
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