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.

June 28, 2023: A Geo-Political-Economic Exploratory Forecast 2050 - The Sun Sets on the West

May 3, 2021: Equality, Equity & Egality - Words Have Meaning

March 14, 2021: Cancel Culture & De-Platforming - Return of the Stationers' Company - A Precedent

September 1, 2019: revised article

The Unfinished Revolution: Arts Management in a 21st Century Knowledge-Based/Digital Economy

June 14, 2019 Revised and Extended version

The Unfinished Revolution: Arts Management in a 21st Century Knowledge-Based/Digital Economy

Feb. 2, 2019 New Article

The Unfinished Revolution: Arts Management in a 21st Century Knowledge-Based/Digital Economy

January 21, 2019 New Article

Funding the Fine Arts: International Political Economic Trends - 1985, 2001, 2016+

Arts Management Network.

Sept. 19, 2018: Draft Chapter of a Work in Progress

1.1.1 The Age of Manuscripts from The Genesis & Evolution of Copyright: The Unfinished Revolution (pending)

May 13, 2018: New Article

Value without Price or Value Theory Redux

January 15, 2018:  New Compilation

The Compleat Canadian Copyright Act 1710-2018: Present, Past & Proposed Provisions, January 2018, ISBN 978-0-9921335-1-1.

Nov. 30, 2016

2 opinion pieces:

Austerity Trumped

Government should be more like Business?

Oct. 30, 2016 New Article

Disruptive Solutions to Problems associated with the Global Knowledge-Based/Digital Economy, Compiler Press, Oct. 2016

June 22, 2016: Xerox 6085 Professional Computer System Detailed Inventory

February 1, 2016: I am pleased to announce a new policy research paper:

Safe Harbour: The Unsettled Future of the Global Knowledge-Based Economy

November 12, 2015: New Library Article

Geller, P., "The Celestial Jam Session: Creative Sharing Online Caught in Conflicts of Copyright Laws", European Intellectual Property Review, 37 (8), 2015.

October 31, 2015: I am pleased to announce publication of Volume I: Copyright & Related 1886-2015 of the 2nd Edition The Compleat Multilateral Intellectual &

       Cultural Property Rights Series Volume II - Patents & Related 1883-2015, Volume III - Trademark & Industrial Design 1883-2015 and

       Volume IV - Cultural Property & Related 1854-2015 will be sequentially published over the next year. 

June 11, 2014: Reduced Pricing

The Compleat Canadian Copyright Act 1709-2013: Present, Past & Proposed Provisions, September 2013, ISBN 978-0-9921335-1-1

February 18, 2014: New Library Article

Patterson, L.R., Copyright in Historical Perspective - Overview, Vanderbilt University, 1968, 3-19.

February 2, 2014: New Article

A Summary Survey of Intellectual Property in the Global Village

September 28, 2013: New Book

I am pleased to announce publications of The Compleat Canadian Copyright Act: Present, Past & Proposed Provisions:1709 - 2013

October 15, 2012

Ten Ways to Know the Knowledge-Based Economy, plus Presentation Prologue, Atlantic Canada Economics Association Conference, October, 2012

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.