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Toronto – McCarthy Tétrault partners Barry Sookman and Steven Mason illustrate the challenges, concepts and approaches to copyright issues in their newly released casebook Copyright: Cases and Commentary on the Canadian and International Law. The authors draw on their experience in numerous high-profile intellectual property cases to show how copyright operates within various national legal systems and plays an important role in the creation and dissemination of valuable intellectual property assets.

Aimed at law students, law professors, librarians and practitioners, the casebook includes extracts from leading cases in both Canadian and international jurisprudence, and explains copyright matters to a broad audience through carefully selected court opinions and insightful commentary.

“Barry’s and Steven’s casebook reaffirms our team’s international expertise and ability to understand and resolve clients’ disputes regardless of jurisdiction,” said W. Iain Scott, the firm’s Chair and CEO. “It will be a valuable resource for anyone with an interest in copyright law.”

Published by Carswell, Copyright: Cases and Commentary on the Canadian and International Law can be purchased at Carswell’s online bookstore or by calling 1-877-750-9041.

At The Vancouver International Partnering Forum 2008, 600+ meetings were reported in just one day by top executives from international digital companies at the popular one-on-one sessions

Vancouver – This year, the number of match made 1+1s may just double, with an additional full day of programming that includes hand-picked B2B sessions, an International Keynote Luncheon, International Breakfast, Digital Networker’s Cocktail reception and exclusive international networking events.

So if you’re a digital company exploring global connections in mobile, Games, VFX, Web 2.0, Social Media, eLearning, Animation or a traditional media business planning new ventures into digital space, here’s a prime opportunity to meet the players who matter and identify opportunities to co-produce, invest, publish, aggregate, source or outsource projects.

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Toronto – E1 Entertainment (“E1”) today announced that its film and television content is now available on the iTunes Store in Canada, the US and the UK. E1 will launch its presence on iTunes with the recent theatrical blockbuster Twilight, which is now available for pre-order in the iTunes Store. Twilight is distributed by E1 in both Canada and the UK, and Summit in the US.

“We are excited to be able to offer film and TV enthusiasts the opportunity to rent or purchase E1 content on iTunes,” said Patrice Theroux, President Filmed Entertainment at E1. “We are expanding our digital offering on a multi territory basis and with iTunes we can provide consumers easy access to our library of films and television programs.”  iTunes customers in the US, Canada and UK can now enjoy a varied selection of E1-distributed new releases and catalogue titles including:
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Vancouver – Absolute® Software Corporation, the leading provider of firmware-based, patented, computer theft recovery, data protection and IT asset management solutions, has announced the official launch of Computrace® Mobile for the BlackBerry® platform. The new solution delivers asset management, data protection and geolocation tracking for the popular BlackBerry line of smartphones.

The launch follows a successful beta program that allowed select Absolute customers to test Computrace Mobile for BlackBerry smartphones within their live IT operations. One beta test customer, John D. Halamka, CIO, Beth Israel Deaconess & Harvard Medical School, commented, “I depend on my BlackBerry® to run five different organizations, $100 million in annual budgets, and 800 emails a day. The Computrace Agent enables me to track my Blackberry® via its internal GPS. Also, it enables my staff to track my location to an accuracy of about 20 meters. Over my 60 days of testing, it accurately tracked geolocation 24×7.”

“Our customers have the competitive advantage of being able to manage their laptops, desktops and smartphones from a single portal, helping to reduce operational costs and losses due to theft and inefficient allocation,” said John Livingston, president and CEO of Absolute Software. “We continue to extend our platform to ensure organizations have the visibility and protection they need to get the most from their investments in mobile computing.”
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Vancouver/North Myrtle Beach – Thinking Studios, a small independent Vancouver studio, and Slam Dunk Studios of North Myrtle Beach SC, are proud to announce the new PC game “Raycatcher”, which syncs its gameplay with your MP3s.  Create custom playlists of your favorite music and play for as long or as short as you’d like. The goal of the game is to spin a colorful cluster of shapes to catch multi-colored rays. This causes the cluster to grow, evolve, and unlock 30 new evolutionary stages.

Raycatcher, which is due for release in March 2009, represents the first game produced by the coordinated efforts of Thinking Studios and Slam Dunk Studios. “Raycatcher represents a new twist on the play to music gaming genre.” “We believe Raycatcher will appeal to a broad age group.”

Thinking Studios was started by John Warner, an artist currently employed in the game industry, who has worked on such titles as Company of Heroes and Dawn of War II.

Toronto – Red Wolf Online proudly announces its Beta launch of MeetingMade™, a web-based calendaring tool that automates and simplifies the scheduling of meetings and events by removing the tedious ‘back & forth’ over the phone or email.

With MeetingMade, you and your meeting participants share your availability without disclosing or compromising personal schedules in an easy-to-use interface. MeetingMade then calculates the best meeting time for everyone.

“I was inspired to create MeetingMade shortly after I moved to Toronto from Vancouver about 12 years ago, “ said David Tessler, President of Red Wolf Online. “Most of my childhood friends are busy professionals who now live here and we found it really difficult to get together. Our joke was that the amount of time it took to schedule a ‘get-together’ was more than the time we spent together.”
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