NEWS

This is where I'll announce the most recent additions to our web site. If you've visited us before and want to know what's changed, look here first.

May 12, 2011:

Findings & Conclusion: Pre-Common Law Copyright, Performing Rights & Licensing: An Annotated Chronology including Statutory Marginalia 567 to 1714

Re-Growing the Canadian Middle Class

April 25, 2011: New Book

Pre-Common Law Copyright, Performing Rights & Licensing: An Annotated Chronology including Statutory Marginalia 567 to 1714, April 2011, ISBN 978-0-9689523-9-9.

January 31, 2011: New Article

Fox, H.G., "Copyright in Relation to the Crown and Universities with Special Reference to Canada", University of Toronto Law Journal, 7 (1), 1947, 98-136.

December 8, 2010 - New Policy Research Note

Tilting at Windmills: Moral Rights & Benthamism,

Canadian Copyright Reform Policy Research Note #4, Compiler Press, December 8, 2010.

December 6, 2010: New Articles

Palmer, P.A., "Benthamism in England and America",American Political Science Review, 35 (5), October, 1941.

West, E.G., "The Benthamites as Educational Engineers: The Reputation and the Record", Carleton Economic Papers 92-05 April, 1992.

October 17, 2010: New Article

"St. Columba & Copyright", The Month, Vol. LXII, Jan-Apr. 1888, 88-89.

October 12, 2010: New Article for Library

Siiburn, M., "Early Charters of Incorporation Granted to Musicians", The Musical Times, March 1, p. 205, April 1, pp. 283-4 & May 1, p.356, 1922.

October 4, 2010: New Article

Copygate

September 28, 2010: New library article

Harvey, D., "Law and the Regulation of Communications Technologies: The Printing Press and the Law 1475 - 1641", Australian and New Zealand Law & History Society E Journal, 2005. 160- 211.

September 7, 2010

The Compleat Copyright Modernization Act of 2010, Compiler Press, September 7, 2010.

August 31, 2010

The 2010 Copyright Modernization Act and the Licensing Act of 1662 - Final Version, Canadian Copyright Reform Policy Research Note #3, Compiler Press, August 31, 2010.

July 28, 2010:

The 2010 Copyright Modernization Act and the Licensing Act of 1662 - Part 1, Canadian Copyright Reform Policy Research Note #3, Compiler Press, July 28, 2010

April 3, 2010

Begin a Library of articles by other authors.  First entries:

Prager, F. D., "History of Intellectual Property From 1545 to 1787", Journal of the Patent

                       Office Society 26 (11), November 1944, 711-760

Prager, F. D.  "The Early Growth and Influence of Intellectual Property", Journal of the

                        Patent Office Society 34 (2) , February 1950, 106-140.

March 31, 2010

 A Unified Theory of Canadian Copyright:  Canadian Copyright Reform Policy Research Note #2, Compiler Press, March 31, 2010

November 4, 2009: New Monograph

A Primer on Economics: "X" Marks the Spot

  A Lecture Series for Students of the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of

  Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan, Sept. 12 - Oct. 3, 2009

  Compiler Press, November 3, 2009

July 31, 2009: Canadian Copyright Reform

Policy Research Note #1: The Global Context

October 16, 2009: Upgraded & integrated site

On October 31, 2009 my other sites will either go dark or suffer acute link death because my American web host for 11 years is closing its doors.  This site - Compiler Press - is now fully integrated and secure.  I hope to re-launch the other sites in presentable form before month's end.  Thank you for your understanding.

Archives

Be advised, items published before October 18, 2009 especially links to references suffer many dead links. 

February 18, 2009: New Work

The Compleat Multilateral Cultural Property & Related 1874-2008 Agreements, Charters, Conventions, Covenants and  Treaties, February 2009, ISBN 978-0-9689523-6-8

August 22, 2008: 'Read Easy Version' of Bill C-61 An Act to Amend the Copyright Act

August 11, 2008: New Work

The Compleat Multilateral Trademark & Industrial Design Agreements, Conventions & Treaties 1883-2008, August 2008. ISBN 978-0-9689523-6-8

July 14, 2008: New Work

The Compleat Multilateral Patent & Related Agreements, Conventions & Treaties 1883-2008, July 2008, ISBN 978-0-9689523-7-5

April 23, 2008: New Article

Software: Copyright, Patent or Something Else.

April 28, 2007: CMCR 1886-2007

Table of Contents & Introduction now available on-line in Pdf format.