Court cases affected spam, copyright, music and much more in 2003 As individuals grappled with a deluge of spam and anti-spam legislation, concerns about their personal privacy, and confusion over the application of copyright law to the online environment, 2003 was a busy year for technology law. Although activities south […]
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Think Web’s virtually government free? Think again
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which will be held next week in Geneva, promises to be one of the most interesting technology-related events in recent memory. The result of months of discussion, the meeting will attract more than 50 heads of state and 6,000 delegates who will […]
Name names, or privacy law toothless
The Canadian privacy community has long circled January 1, 2004 on its collective calendar as the privacy equivalent of Y2K. The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), Canada’s national private-sector privacy legislation, kicks into full swing on that date, following three years of limited applicability to federally regulated […]
Will copyright treaty benefit Canadians?
As the Internet began to emerge as a powerful new communication tool in the mid-1990s, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency, moved quickly to establish two new treaties designed to address the copyright complications created by the online world. The WIPO Copyright Treaty and the […]
Why we must stand on guard over copyright
As a trading nation, Canadians have considerable experience with negotiating trade agreements. From the Auto Pact in the 1960s, to the U.S.—Canada Free Trade Agreement in the 1980s, we have relied on trade deals to facilitate economic growth and to encourage exports of everything from cars to forestry. In […]
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