Posted AT 10:00 PM EDT on 13/12/07
How did copyright become cool?
When did copyright law become sexy? Jim Prentice must be wondering. This week, Canada's freshly shuffled Industry Minister was set to table new copyright legislation that could have completely changed the relationship between Canadians and their digital media. But then he backed down, at least until the end of the year.
Maybe it had something to do with the furor over what that bill was said to have contained.
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