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 […]
Articles by: Michael Geist
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 […]
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 […]
The Canadian Path To Google Print
The decision by the Author' s Guild to sue Google over its Google Print initiative is obviously the story of the week. I' ve stayed quiet on this primarily because there have been some great postings (Lessig, von Lohmann, Band, Crawford, and Google' s own response among them) that say […]
Different Post, Different Outcome
On the heels of the Ontario Court of Appeal Bangoura decision, the B.C. Supreme Court has just released another Internet jurisdiction finding. Rather than the Washington Post, this case involves the New York Post, which is being sued by former Vancouver Canucks General Manager Brian Burke. The suit stems from […]
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