After watching the Google DC debate on ACTA with its emphasis on the issue of transparency, it is worth revisiting the ACTA document spelling out confidentiality requirements among the negotiating countries.

SaveOurNet.ca points to a letter written by NDP MP Charlie Angus to Industry Minister Tony Clement late last year on net neutrality.

Reports this morning indicate that the government plans to prorogue Parliament, effectively shutting it down until March.

Yesterday I blogged about the origins of the WIPO Internet treaty, challenging Mihály Ficsor's claims that the treaty requires a ban on the distribution and manufacture of circumvention devices.

CRIA lobbyist Barry Sookman's blog is home this week to a guest post from Mihály Ficsor, a well-known international copyright author who is the former Assistant Director General of WIPO.

TorrentFreak recently published the Top 25 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2009, which charts the most-trafficked public, English-language sites.

MPAA Chair Dan Glickman appeared before a Congressional committee last week and left little doubt that ACTA is all about the Internet and copyright provisions.

Industry Minister Tony Clement announced this morning that the Government has overturned the CRTC decision on Globalive, giving the go-ahead for the fourth national wireless carrier to enter the marketplace.

As public discussion and media coverage of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement continues to mount, it is worth considering whether Canada will play host to an ACTA meeting next year.

There is some exciting news at the University of Ottawa as it has become the first major Canadian research university to announce a comprehensive open access strategy.

The government has now completed posting all the submissions it received during the copyright consultation.

The Electronic Commerce Protection Act, Canada's anti-spam bill (Bill C-27) passed through the House of Commons yesterday as a motion to support sending the bill to the Senate received approval.

isoHunt, the Canadian-based Torrent search engine, has filed a follow-up statement of claim against the Canadian Recording Industry Association as it seeks a declaration that it is operating legally in Canada.

Bill C-58 creates a mandatory disclosure requirement on Internet providers where they become aware of child pornography websites or have reason to believe a subscriber is using their service to violate child pornography laws.

Multiple reports today indicate that opposition is growing in Europe to plans for three-strikes policies that could lead to the termination of Internet access for some subscribers.

The OECD has released new data on its global counterfeiting estimates, concluding that the share of counterfeit and pirated goods in world trade is estimated to have increased from 1.85% in 2000 to 1.95% in 2007.

In the face of widespread criticism of the lack of ACTA transparency, participating governments and music industry lobbyists have claimed that the transparency issue is much ado about nothing.

Crown copyright concerns were raised repeatedly during this summer's copyright consultation as many groups expressed the view that government works should be treated as public domain.

One of the longstanding demands from lobby groups seeking reforms to Canada's IP enforcement rules has been changes to the Proceeds of Crime Program.

The Liberals have issued a noteworthy release calling for better competition and service for wireless and Internet services in Canada.

Bill C-27, the anti-spam bill, passed through the Industry Committee late Monday with the bill largely intact.

While the Liberal party indicated late in the summer that it would more actively oppose the Conservative government, apparently that may not apply to Bill C-46 and C-47, the lawful access legislation.

A new academic article published in the Journal of Information Law and Technology by Professor Emir Aly Crowne-Mohammed and Yonatan Rozenszajn, both from the University of Windsor, concludes that the anti-circumvention provisions found in Bill C-61 were unconstitutional.

The Federal Communications Commission has just posted a comprehensive study it commissioned on broadband policies around the world.

The Canadian Film and Television Production Association's copyright consultation submission warns against targeting P2P as part of copyright reform.

The Government continues to post copyright consultation submissions (still lots to go one month after the consultation concluded) with many making for interesting reading.

Consultants Mark Goldberg and Giganomics released a new report this week on the state of Canada's broadband infrastructure.

The Government is still in the midst of posting copyright consultation submissions.

Research teams from the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and the University of Oviedo’s Department of Applied Economics (supported by Cisco) have released a new study on global broadband quality.

I have been fairly critical of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority in recent months as I sense a discouraging drift away from its mandate of serving the broader public interest.

The U.S. is heading toward greater openness, whether in the network or within government.

FCC Chair Julius Genachowski is delivering a speech this morning that takes a strong stand for a free and open Internet (the U.S. regulator has also launched OpenInternet.gov as a site to debate the issue).

Today is the new last day to submit to the copyright consultation with the grace period expiring at midnight.

The government has just announced that there is a 48 hour extension on submissions to the copyright consultation.

The copyright consultation is days away from its conclusion and missing content from the consultation website has emerged as a problem.

The government has just posted the audio from the Toronto copyright roundtable held in late August.

Tonight the government held its second copyright town hall. Only it wasn't really a copyright townhall in the sense of bringing the community together to talk copyright in an open and balanced manner.

CRIA's Graham Henderson has posted an op-ed in the Georgia Straight in which he repeats many of his comments from an earlier copyright consultation roundtable.

With three weeks left in the copyright consultation, Athabasca University President Frits Pannekoek has issued an open public letter to all students urging them to speak out in the consultation.

Canada's two major post-secondary student groups have both filed their comments on the copyright consultation.

With only 24 days left in the copyright consultation, several Canadian music associations and groups are urging their members to become more active in the consultation.

Last week, Congressional Representatives Ed Markey and Anna Eshoo introduced the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009.

Over the past week, there has been a growing number of op-eds and public commentary that provide Canadians with a good sense of what the traditional copyright lobby is pushing for as part of the consultation.

The Winnipeg copyright roundtable is a must-listen as it includes some notable comments from the Manitoba Music Industry Association.

The CRTC has released the second annual Communications Monitoring Report 2009.

David Akin has unearthed a revealing memorandum from last spring that states the government's view on the protection of parody and satire under Canadian copyright law as well as highlighting one of the issues raised at the highest levels of the government before the introduction of Bill C-61.

Shaw has dropped a "price bomb" on Novus Entertainment, a small cable operator in Vancouver.

BitTorrent has shaken up the CRTC network management hearing with a late submission that seeks to set the record straight on BitTorrent and its impact on ISP networks.

The Canadian copyright consultation has launched with a site that offers Canadians several ways to ensure that their voices are heard.

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has released its long-awaited finding in the complaint against Facebook on a variety of privacy grounds.