An offer they can't refuse?

I love the ambiguity in the title of this article from Canadian IP firm, Bereskin & Parr: Dealing With Inventors Who Refuse To Cooperate Or Disappear. In case the suspense is too much for you, I can tell you that it's concerned with employee inventors who become unavailable, not those who decline to make themselves scarce. As you guessed, of course.

Canadian copyright law and digital locks

Here's an interesting posting by Michael Geist about the proposed Canadian copyright law changes, which would deal with (among other things) breaking digital locks. Canada would fall into line with the USA and its Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a piece of legislation which Draco would probably find quite to his taste (although he'd surely find the omission of the death penalty inexplicable), and as one would expect the chattering classes have a lot to say about this piece of cultural imperialism and the Conservative government's craven submission to Big Copyright - here, for example.