Mike DeWolfe : The Daily Edition

This just in from the grand people at Access Copyright. These people are so happy that they can get money from Canadian schools for photocopied pages. Toronto - July 26, 2010 - Canadian creators and educational publishers have won a six-year legal battle to receive reasonable compensation for the reproduction of copyright-protected teaching materials used in the classroom, according to a decision by the Federal Court of Appeal. In 2009, the Copyright Board of Canada certified a tariff to compensate creators and publishers for the photocopying of their works in K - 12 Schools. Ministers of Education of all the provinces and territories with the exception of Quebec, along with close to a hundred individual s...

This from the CBC : Members of the Cowichan First Nation on Vancouver Island say the Hudson's Bay Company ripped-off their design for one of the most sought-after pieces of Canada's Olympic uniforms. The First Nation says it bid to knit its traditional sweaters for the Games, but instead the company went with a knock-off. The art of knitting what locals call "the Cowichan sweater" has been handed down from generation to generation, Cowichan elder Jenny Martin told CBC News Wednesday. "My mom taught me how to knit when I was 15 … and my mom had-made sweaters and ponchos," Martin said. Martin said the Bay's version of the sweater has an elk and a maple leaf but lacks authenticity. "It's not Cowichan-made," she said. The local MLA said the situation makes him angry. "VANOC has threatened legal action against businesses that use the Olympic logo or even use the word 'Olympic,'" said the B.C. NDP's Bill Routley. ...