The Author:
James Gannon is a lawyer at the firm McCarthy Tétrault. The views expressed here are his own.
Category Archives: TPM
Why the “digital lock” rules in Bill C-11 will not have any impact on fair dealing in the education community
Posted by on December 12, 2011
Technological protection measures (or “TPMs”) are technologies that protect digital media and control how consumers can use digital products that they purchase. For instance, when you buy e-books from Kobo’s online book store, a TPM controls how that e-book can be copied. The TPM allows you to make copies of the e-book between devices that [...]
University of Toronto Presentation on TPMs and DRM
Posted by on March 2, 2011
I was delighted to be welcomed back to the University of Toronto Law School’s Technology and Intellectual Property Group conference this year. My presentation dealt with legal protection for technological protection measures (TPMs) and Bill C-32. Below are my slides from the presentation:
Sony moves to quickly restrain PS3 circumvention device
Posted by on January 12, 2011
One of the most successful copy-protection technologies in use today is that which is used in Sony’s PlayStation 3 video game console. Although many often attempt to depict TPM technologies as ineffective, in over four years since the launch of the PS3, no effective mod chip, hack or other circumvention device has surfaced among the [...]
