L’arbitrage et la Loi sur le statut professionnel des artistes des arts visuels, des métiers d’art et de la littérature et sur leurs contrats avec les diffuseurs?

L’arbitrage et la Loi sur le droit d’auteur?

L’arbitrage et l’ordre public?

Quoi? La propriété intellectuelle et la Cour suprême?

Extra extra, get the decision in French or in English here.

Editor’s note: I would like to give a shout out to all my homies out there who reades the excellent Pressepapiers.net…. Umm… should have posted earlier… but human nature… la paresse… :p

This paper focuses on the international telecommunications and Internet policy issues which ENUM presents. Really really good.

« THE ENUM PROTOCOL, TELECOMMUNICATIONS NUMBERING, AND INTERNET GOVERNANCE« 

Why wireless spectrum should be sold to the highest bidder? Concerns about possible consequences of a too burdensome regulation over wireless spectrum licensing have been raised in an interesting article by Eli Noam (comments also by Lessig, Epstein and Hazlett) recently published in FT.com.

The European Commission seems to share these concerns and yesterday adopted a recommendation that encourages EU countries to allow for the deployment of W-LAN with as little regulatory burden as possible.
The Information Society Commissioner, Erkki Liikanen, affirmed that the Recommendation “is an important step for the deployment of multi-platform and high-speed Internet connections”

Ed Felten : DRM, and the First Rule of Security Analysis:

If you’re a copyright owner, you have two threat models to choose from. The first, which I’ll call the Napsterization model, assumes that there are many people, some of them technically skilled, who want to redistribute your work via peer-to-peer networks; and it assumes further that once your content appears on a p2p network, there is no stopping these people from infringing. The second threat model, which I’ll call the casual-copying model, assumes that you are worried about widespread, but small-scale and unorganized, copying among small groups of ordinary consumers.

Tim Hadley‘s reconstructed deconstruction of Creative Commons
license nuts and bolts. [Bags and Baggage]

Lessig on publishing lyrics snippets: MIT decides to ignore licensing paperwork and publish (hopefully) under fair use.

Et de citer Slashdot:

 » An anonymous reader writes « Ipsos-Reid has released its latest research on file trading. Bottom line, the great majority of users do not believe they are breaking the law. Only 9% feel there is anything wrong with their actions. With 40 million Americans identified as active file traders this is indeed stirring information, though not surprising. Another stat, 73% of US downloaders report that their motivation for trading was to sample music for later purchase. You can see the charts and original press release here. »

Well it seems the public opinion and the music industry have very polar stances of the issue, with the law probably somewhere in the middle. Where exactly in the middle, it remains to be seen.

« Canadian Supreme Court Justice Ian Binnie delivered a lecture entitled Technology and the Courts: The Incomprehensible Chasing the Unteachable? at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law on February 26. Watch recorded video , now online from U of T’s Center for Innovation Law and Policy. »

[ JURIST’s Paper Chase]

LawMeme has a conference report that is a refreshing read after the ad hoc reporting I’ve read from bloggers on this conference: it does have a lot of added value compared to the raw notes and is a good reading time/information value.

It is absolutely worth reading if you can set a few minutes aside.

LawMeme reports:

« Lee Hollaar, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah has made his book Legal Protection of Digital Information available for free download. »

Copyright Limitations and Contracts – An Analysis of the Contractual Overridability of Limitations
by Lucie M. C. R. Guibault

« A couple of more blogs on legal technology topics ».
[DennisKennedy.blog]

Interesting ITU Workshop on Member States’ Experiences with ccTLDs (Geneva, 3-4 March 2003)

The whole bunch of contribution (over 60!) to the meeting can be found at http://www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-t/workshop/cctld/index.html.
However, if you want to get a taste of the discussion going on, you can read the article on The Register « Internet battle lines drawn at extraordinary Geneva meeting« 

Le commissaire à la vie privée du Canada s’est prononcé sur une forme de surveillance en milieu de travail sous la Loi sur la protection des renseignements personnels et les documents électroniques (PIPEDA ou C-6 pour les intimes).
En somme: caméras de surveillance dans une gare de triage inutiles selon le Commissaire.
A ma connaissance, c’est la première fois sous cette Loi. Il y en a eu précédemment sur ce sujet?
La surveillance via les systèmes d’information est un sujet dont je suis toujours curieux. Fait à noter, LawMeme a battu BNA’s Internet Law News de vitesse sur la nouvelle, eux qui sont habituellement les champions dans ce domaine.
Merci Cla
[via LawMeme]

A St. Lucie West Middle sixth-grader used the excuse of forgetting his lunch
to return to his reading classroom and sat down at his teacher’s computer to
change five reading assignment grades, St. Lucie County sheriff’s deputies
said Tuesday. …

The 11-year-old student, who faces a 10-day suspension
and a principal’s recommendation that he be expelled, was arrested Monday on
a felony charge of offense against intellectual property. … The student
was booked into the St. Lucie County jail, then released to his father.
Mancini said he could face several years in a juvenile detention facility,
if convicted.

La propriété intellectuelle de qui? Quelle sorte de IPRs? Les notes ne sont pas des renseignements personnels qui appartiennent en bout de ligne à l’étudiant? Je peux pas m’empêcher de faire un rattachement avec les dossiers médicaux: est-ce que falsifier mon dossier serait un crime envers la propriété intellectuelle (ouh le gros mot-massue-devant-lequel-tout-bon-sens-doit-s’incliner)? C’est clairement répréhensible, mais une contrefaçon quelconque?

Mais bon, il a du culot le jeune, et je suis loin d’être convaincu que du bon vieux trichage « analogue » aurait pas mérité une telle attention. Ce qu’on ne comprends pas fait peur.

[ Palm Beach Post via Risks]

Pour nos amis qui se préoccupent de l’accès aux documents juridiques, Infotoday a un article sur Lexis et West et le monopole de fait, sinon de droit, qu’ont ces éditeurs sur des sources pourtant publiques.
[via BiPlog]

[via Nanog]: Very interesting talk on legal intercept in IP networks by Jaya Baloo at the the HiverCon corporate security conference held in Dublin, Ireland on November 26th and 27th, 2002: Lawful Interception of IP Traffic in the European Context.

[robertshaw.info]