No Internet law issue is more maddeningly frustrating than online music and peer-to-peer file sharing. Since the emergence of Napster nearly five years ago, the recording industry has found itself at loggerheads with millions of music fans over an approach that will satisfy both the industry's need for adequate compensation […]
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Web decision extends long arm of Ontario law
Few Internet law issues generate as much controversy as jurisdiction. While most now accept that traditional law applies online, the question of whose law should apply online remains subject to considerable debate. Since attempts to solve Internet jurisdiction issues through international treaties have thus far largely failed, individual courts have […]
Canada badly needs a national standard
The costs associated with privacy protection have long been a source of considerable debate. Ann Cavoukian, Ontario’s Privacy Commissioner, who together with the Toronto Star’s Tyler Hamilton wrote The Privacy Payoff, maintains that good privacy practices are actually good for business. In my column of January 19, I argued maintaining […]
Fighting privacy law questionable
In a year of headline-grabbing privacy developments in Canada, the Quebec government saved the best for last. On Dec. 17, just days before Canada’s national privacy law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), was scheduled to take full effect, the Quebec government initiated a constitutional challenge that […]
Contentious laws will mould technology
The world of technology law went out with a big bang in 2003. The last few weeks of the year witnessed headline-grabbing news — the prospect of lawsuits against individual music file sharers migrating to Canada, a Copyright Board of Canada decision that establishes a new levy on MP3 players […]
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