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From Deadwood to Opportunity: CRIA Changes Its Tune on the Canadian Online Music Market

By Michael Geist
January 27, 2012 6:00 AM
Categories: Copyright Technology law
For many years, the most prominent critic of the Canadian online music market has been the industry itself. The Canadian Recording Industry Association (now known as Music Canada) has consistently argued that few would want to invest in Canada due to the state of our copyright laws.

Back in the Saddle Again: Getting Your ERP Implementation Back on Track

By Eric Kimberling
January 27, 2012 5:15 AM
Categories: Cloud computing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Unfortunately, ERP implementations still aren’t any easier than they were 15 years ago when I started in the ERP world. Despite the enterprise software industry’s best intentions to mitigate risk with cloud ERP systems, implementation accelerators, and other tools, ERP failure rates are still high and most projects still take more time and money than expected. For example, our 2012 ERP Report, which will be released next week, shows that nearly half (44-percent) of all ERP implementations fail to deliver at least half of their expected business benefits.

SOPA: The Rise of a New Internet Era?

By Marqui Web Marketing Blog
January 26, 2012 5:30 AM
Categories: Copyright
For journalists, bloggers and techies alike, last week passed in a whirlwind of headlines covering the controversy surrounding SOPA, the proposed anti-piracy legislation in the U.S. Some of the powerful language used to characterize the dispute? Protest, blackout, fear and censorship, to name but a few. Some of the bill's opponents, namely Mashable's editor-in-chief Lance Ulanoff, have declared that the passing of SOPA, if it were to occur, would be a regression into the "Dark Ages".

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