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Canadian Anti-Piracy Firm Caught Infringing Copyright

Posted by Soulskill on from the of-pots-and-kettles dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Canipre, a Montreal-based intellectual property enforcement firm, yesterday issued a press release announcing an infringement monitoring program designed to take advantage of the Canada's new copyright notice-and-notice system. Yet a new report indicates that the company may itself be engaged in copyright infringement, with a director's blog posting dozens of full-text articles from media organizations around the world, often without attribution and some that are subscription-only content."

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  1. Same ole, same ole ... by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Do as we say, not as we do." History repeating itself, they're trying to get more customers to run what basically will amount to an extortion racket.

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  2. Re:It's not copyright infringement... by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If Rupert had his way, supplying a link to one of his rehashed press releases would require a payment to him

    Spain is trying that out right as we speak. I'm gearing up to laugh heartily when that entire concept explodes spectacularly in their face, and they're forced to rescind their ridiculous laws.

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