Professor Geist’s weekly Toronto Star Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, HTML backup article, homepage version) focuses on the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Development Agenda. It notes that years of international agreements have failed to balance the interests of the developed and developing worlds and have predictably led to annual […]
Archive for January, 2005
Fairness calls for fairer rules
As developing countries seek access to new technologies, they frequently find that global intellectual property law rules represent a significant barrier to development.Years of international agreements have failed to balance the interests of the developed and developing worlds and have led to annual outflows of billions of dollars from the […]
More on a National Digital Library
Professor Geist spoke with Jon Gordon of Future Tense, a daily radio show heard throughout the United States about the prospect for a national digital library for Canada. The conversation focused on the benefits and legal challenges.
Downloading Nation
The Ottawa Citizen re-runs a piece from late last year focusing on the popularity of music downloading. Professor Geist comments on the exaggerated loss claims of the Canadian Recording Industry Association and highlights the benefits of P2P distribution. Professor Geist expanded on the issue in a two-part series in the […]
Debating the Impact of the Englander Decision
IT Business provides good coverage a call-in conference held today on the impact of the Englander PIPEDA decision. Professor Geist, who participated along with Heather Black of the Commissioner’s office and Pat Wilson of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, focused on the issue of deference toward the Commissioner’s findings.
Recent Posts
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 200: Colin Bennett on the EU’s Surprising Adequacy Finding on Canadian Privacy Law 
Debating the Online Harms Act: Insights from Two Recent Panels on Bill C-63 
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 199: Boris Bytensky on the Criminal Code Reforms in the Online Harms Act 
AI Spending is Not an AI Strategy: Why the Government’s Artificial Intelligence Plan Avoids the Hard Governance Questions 
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 198: Richard Moon on the Return of the Section 13 Hate Speech Provision in the Online Harms Act
