Archive for September, 2005

The Onion, CRIA Edition

While we were participating in a great launch of In the Public Interest, CRIA was across town promoting two new surveys that seek to link seemingly all teenager problems and recording industry woes with file sharing.  It is tempting to conduct a detailed analysis on how off-base these two new […]

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September 30, 2005 4 comments News
In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law Published

In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law Published

I am delighted to report that In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law has been published and is now available for purchase or free download under a Creative Commons license (I should note that all royalties will be donated to Creative Commons). I have great hopes for […]

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September 28, 2005 3 comments Books, News

Positionless at WIPO

As Jamie Boyle points out in a masterful piece in the Financial Times, this week (likely Wednesday), the World Intellectual Property Organization will move forward on a controversial Broadcasting Treaty by calling for a meeting later this year to negotiate a near-final text followed by a diplomatic conference sometime in […]

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September 28, 2005 1 comment News

The Long Arm of Canadian Internet Law

My weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, freely available hyperlinked column) reviews the Bangoura and Burke cases, the  two recent Canadian Internet jurisdiction decisions involving the Washington Post and New York Post. The Ontario Court of Appeal declined to assert jurisdiction in the Bangoura case, expressing concern that "to […]

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September 25, 2005 Comments are Disabled Columns

The Long Arm of Canadian Internet Law

Appeared in the Toronto Star on September 26, 2005 as The Long Arm of Internet Law The Canadian Internet law community is buzzing about this month’ s release of two new cases from Ontario and British Columbia that focused on the jurisdiction of Canadian courts over content posted online.  Involving […]

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September 25, 2005 Comments are Disabled Columns Archive