Last month, two members of the five-person Copyright Board, Justice William Vancise and Stephen Callary, published their disagreement with a decision to licence Breakthrough Entertainment’s use of excerpts from a book with an unlocatable author. Excerpts from the two members’ decision appear below.

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Motion simulator manufacturer D-Box Technologies Inc. of Longueuil QC has named Jean-Pierre De Montigny to the position of chairman of the board. In addition to the new role at D-Box, De Montigny is also vice-chairman of the board at Toronto’s Blackmont Capital, an investment dealer and capital markets firm. As well, he was president of Desjardins Securities from 2001 to 2005 and executive VP and CFO at Telesystem International Wireless from 2000 to 2001. He has 25 years’ worth of experience in the finance sector, and holds an MBA from McGill University in addition to several professional designations.
De Montigny will replace outgoing board chairman Andre Duquenne. D-Box president and CEO Claude Mc Master, who also takes a seat on the board, said of De Montigny: "He is a visionary, and contributed greatly to the strategic repositioning of the business. We are proud that the board will still be able to draw on his expertise and knowledge."

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Produced by Reel Girls Media, BOOKED.TV is a dynamic, interactive project that exploits the runaway popularity of forensic crime in popular culture. Using the latest in Web technology, BOOKED.TV offers webisodes, podcasts, expert chats and a discussion forum, designed to deliver information straight from Canada’s CSI teams. Our experts include (but are not limited to): Blood Spatter Analyst, Criminal Intelligence Analyst, DNA Specialist, Crown Prosecutor, Technology and Internet Crime, Ento-mologist, Forensic Odontologist, Private Investigator, Explosives Technician, Hom-icide Detective, Physical Anthropologist, Undercover Detective, and Terrorism and Emergency Response Specialist.

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From serious games to self-serve portals, corporate Canada is increasingly making use of interactive media to educate and inform employees and customers alike. But Desjardins Financial Security is using it as a tool to help workforces at the corporate clients it serves adequately plan for retirement – and stay out of court in the bargain.

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The federal government is hoping to bring more tourism dollars to First Nations communities with a new Web portal, titled the Virtual Tour of Aboriginal Canada (VTAC).

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A lunchtime panel on "the idiosyncrasies of the Canadian marketplace" at the first-ever iSummit on March 31 tackled the difficult issues around what it means to be Canadian in an ever-competitive and open world.

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