On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Prof. Michael Geist: "The longstanding debate over whether Bill C-18, the Online News Act, requires payment for linking came to an end yesterday. Government officials admitted that even basic quotes from news articles that include a hyperlink to the original source would scope user posts into the law and require platforms such as Google and Facebook to negotiate payment for the links. As noted below, even that position may understate the impact of the bill, which appears to also cover a user post of a news quote without a link. In other words, merely quoting a few sentences from a news article on an Internet platform is treated as making news content available, which triggers a requirement for the platforms to negotiate payment. This position runs counter to Canada’s copyright obligations under the Berne Convention and has no place in a country committed to freedom of expression."

How will this be made to affect us as individual internet users/publishers?

This report from Michael Geist might be of some help to you in your day-to-day work if you're a teacher. I'm not sure, as I am not a lawyer, but I am hopeful.

This news might also be of some help.

https://twitter.com/ldobsonhughes/status/1390026479191400453

Also, from Cory Doctorow re: infrastructure for stopping future pandemics:

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1389978938273714181

I think we've had alarms raised by the Indigenous nations about this here on the settler-nations of Turtle Island, right? Michael Geist at the University of Ottawa notes some ongoing trouble between South Africa and the USA along similar lines.

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/?p=13769

Should we all be screaming "Aaaaack!" (per the comic strip Cathy) or "Auuugh!" (per Peanuts) here?

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2020/02/we-dont-have-any-specific-analysis-cusma-negotiators-surprising-admission-on-key-privacy-issues/

Does the homework look properly done here?

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191125/23132643458/sketchy-sketchy-case-icann-execs-self-dealing-regarding-org-domain.shtml

Canada Lands Company's legal reps just put their litigational foot in something rotten and smelly here. This is a place where pop culture and the law cross paths and swords, somewhat.

Does this mean that no one can watch Forever Knight, Rookie Blue, Flashpoint (the Toronto cop show), Coroner and the like anymore? Probably not, but the fallout's probably going to create problems anyway.

https://boingboing.net/2019/10/03/clcl-trademark-trolls.html

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1407183

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-china-telecom-hijacked-internet-traffic-in-us-and-canada-report/

Accident or planned?

From Charles Stross:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/12/what-can-possibly-go-wrong.html

A reminder, I suppose, of the old lesson: if you can be framed, and if someone sees a benefit to framing you, it looks like it's going to happen. We can all consider ourselves forewarned.

Still coughing, but less so than yesterday or last night. I still didn't get much sleep despite going to bed earlier than usual, though there were fewer interruptions last night. Maybe things will further improve tonight. Since I've promised to report for work in the morning, they'd better.

Meantime...I heard about Ta-Nehisi Coates writing a Black Panther story for Marvel. This should be Interesting. I've read his non-fiction stuff for The Atlantic, much of which has opened my eyes to many things. We'll come back to this later, I expect.

Odd note: Marvel's legal people seem to have decided "Registered Gifted" isn't a thing they want to protect anymore...? Like I said: it's odd. If you're building a cultural IP library the way Marvel's been doing for decades even before Disney's current role began, you don't take decisions like that as a rule.

About unemployment insurance in Canada: something I noticed today, for your reference. And on that note, I'll be turning on the TV to listen to Power and Politics. Rosemary Barton's taken the hosting reins from Evan Solomon rather well, thus far...