Archive for 2005

When Good Technology Goes Bad

A rather chilling case from Connecticut — the Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that Acme Auto levied an illegal $150 fine against car renters that drove their car over 79 mph. How did the car rental company identify the speeders?

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April 6, 2005 Comments are Disabled News

Copyright’s Convergence

My weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version and non-reg hyperlinked version, homepage version) reflects on two major copyright events of the past ten days — last week's Grokster case and the recently announced Canadian copyright reforms. Of all the interesting anecdotes about the Grokster case, I found the fact that people began lining up at 2:30 p.m. the day before the hearing the most interesting. As I argue in the column, when people are willing to line up for nearly 24 hours to hear a copyright case, something far bigger than accessing free music is taking place.

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April 4, 2005 Comments are Disabled Columns

Copyright’s Convergence

Last week, almost 24 hours before the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in MGM v. Grokster, a highly publicized file sharing case that pitted Hollywood against the technology community, dozens of people began lining up, prepared to brave a cold Washington, DC night in order to attend the hearing. Outside […]

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April 3, 2005 Comments are Disabled Columns Archive

B.C. Court Dismisses Privacy Claim Over Data Outsourcing

The British Columbia Supreme Court has dismissed a claim by a B.C. union challenging the outsourcing of the management of health information to a U.S. company.

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April 3, 2005 Comments are Disabled News

Spyware: The Latest Cyber-Regulatory Challenge

Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, Berkeley, CA link

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April 1, 2005 Comments are Disabled Conferences