Articles by: Michael Geist

ICANN Faces Pressure From Friends and Foes

My latest Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, BBC version, homepage version) highlights the growing frustration with ICANN’s accountability and transparency. The column highlights the many policy issues associated with Internet governance and notes that over the past month even ICANN’s most ardent supporters have begun to express doubts about the organization' s lack of transparency and accountability.

April 4, 2006 — Comments are Disabled — Columns

ICANN Faces Pressure From Friends and Foes

Appeared in the Toronto Star on April 3, 2006 as Democracy Needed in Governing Web Appeared in the BBC on April 3, 2006 as Unease Over How Net Is Run Internet governance issues usually attract the attention of a relatively small number of Internet users, however, concerns associated with the […]

April 3, 2006 — Comments are Disabled — Columns Archive

South China Morning Post

April 3, 2006 — 1 comment — Columns

What Might Conservative Copyright Look Like?

With the House of Commons back in session this week, I have an op-ed in this week's Hill Times that focuses on how a Conservative government intent on adopting a market-oriented policy approach might treat copyright reform. The column notes that there is the potential that history may repeat itself […]

April 2, 2006 — 1 comment — Columns

Beyond Google

The Department of Justice’s subpoena of Google search data generated considerable attention last month with a judge ultimately ordering disclosure of only a fraction of what the U.S. government initally demanded. At the time, the coverage noted that Google was not the only target with similar requests to AOL, Microsoft, […]

March 30, 2006 — 1 comment — News