Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Integrating OpenText Content Server 2010 with SharePoint 2010

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By: Bruce Miller, RIMtech Inc.        www.rimtech.ca       bruce.miller@rimtech.ca As we all know, OpenText Content Server 2010 (CS 2010) is mandated as the EDRMS platform for electronic recordkeeping at the Government of Canada. Shared Services Canada (SSC) has developed a more or less standardized implementation of CS 2010, known as GCDocs, which Treasure Board hopes will be rolled out at some larger departments within the next year or so. Many of these same large departments have also implemented SharePoint 2010 as a platform for collaboration and document production. However, SharePoint cannot be used to manage Government of Canada...
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Friday, 20 July 2012

Recent Supreme Court of Canada Copyright Decisions Pave the Way for Research and Innovation by Expanding the Ambit of Fair Use

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Copyright law is designed to strike a careful balance between the property rights of authors in their original works and the public interest rights to foster economic and social progress [1]. Historically, copyright jurisprudence tended to favor the economic interest of authors by narrowly defining the scope of available defences to copyright infringement claims.  Recently however the defence of fair use has been the subject of heightened judicial analysis [2] in CCH Canadian Ltd. v. Law Society of Upper Canada, where the Supreme Court of Canada laid out a two pronged test for the determination of a valid fair dealing defence to copyright infringement pursuant to section 29 of the Copyright...
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