Articles by: Michael Geist

French Court Rules Against Hugo Heirs

France's highest appeal court has ruled against the heirs of Victor Hugo in their attempt to block the publication of a sequel to Les Miserables.

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February 2, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

Must Reads

This has been an exceptionally busy week, but I don't want some important stories to fall through the cracks: The NY Times on how courts are citing Wikipedia entries with growing frequency, while Simon Chester at Slaw provides a comparative Commonwealth look at the issue. Romania's President tells Bill Gates […]

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February 1, 2007 5 comments News

Scassa on Citizen Journalism and Privacy

Dal law prof Teresa Scassa points to the intersection between user-generated video and PIPEDA.

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January 31, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

CBC To Embrace Web 2.0

Tod Maffin reports on a memo circulated today and Ian Ketcheson responds with some suggestions.

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January 31, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

Conservatives for Fair Use?

The Canadian Press reports that there is speculation that the latest round of Conservative attack ads may violate someone's copyright.  The ads, which show brief clips from a Liberal debate last year, apparently were filmed by a consortium of broadcasters who say that they did not provide the Conservatives with […]

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January 30, 2007 3 comments News