Telecommunications and Intellectual Property Links

The Information Highway Advisory Council

• Final Report of the Information Highway Advisory Council: Connection, Community, Content: The Challenge of the Information Highway, September 1995
• The Even More Final Report of the Information Highway Advisory Council, Preparing Canada for a Digital World, Sept. 9, 1997.
• Main Index for Information Highway Advisory Council Documents. Contains a wide variety of discussion papers including ones on Privacy, Copyright, Access, and Economic Impact. Many of these are much more thoughtful than the rather bland conglomeration in the final report.
• Illegal and Offensive Content on the Information Highway A subcommittee document on pornography, hate literature, etc., which has been inexplicably deleted from the official web site.
• Main Index for CRTC Information, including recent policy reports and decisions.

Intellectual Property Information

• Industry Canada's Intellectual Property Policy Information Page.  A gold mine of links to discussion and research papers, press releases, and legal information.
• Copyright Policy Branch.  The Heritage Canada branch responsible for copyright policy and legislation.
• Association of Research Libraries Intellectual Property Page (US).  Includes international treaties.
• Association of Research Libraries Intellectual Property Links.

Other Telecommunications Policy Links

• The Americanization of Canada Files from the CBC National Magazine Website miirroring a weeklong television series about the Americanization of Canada. Contains many useful facts and figures regarding viewership of Canadian television, the Cannadian film industry, etc. The entire CBC National site, including other specials and transcripts of news broadcasts, is available here, but I have copied off these files in case they disappear.
• Government Information Canada An electronic journal with many articles on Canadian information policy.
• Internet Public Interest Research Group A good source of counterstatements to official government policy and business perspectives.
• Telecommunities Canada, an organization devoted to the discussion of community networking.
• Electronic Frontier Foundation  Check their archives for a running account of EFF's battle with U.S. encryption policy, censorship policy, etc.
• Electronic Frontier Canada. Another "counter-culture" organization dedicated principally to opposing encroachments on privacy and free speech in Canadian telecommunications policy.