My colleague Ian Kerr offers a lyrical and thought-provoking look at what we can expect of the reasonable expectation of privacy.
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Weatherall’s Law
Kim Weatherall, whose blog has been an influential, must-read for months on all things to do with Australian IP reform, has decided to scale back with no further postings (though she plans to post less frequently at LawFont). She concludes her last post by thanking her readers, but it is […]
Rogers Listed as Top 10 Phish Host
New data from the PhishTank, a leading source on phishing information, reports that last month Rogers Cable ranked as the number nine host worldwide for phishing sites, with 419 hosted phishing sites. While that number is far below the South Korean leader, the inclusion of any Canadian ISP on this […]
Ch-ch-ch-changes
BoingBoing points to two noteworthy developments – EMI in Europe has sworn off copy-protected CDs, while Second Life has released its source code under the GPL.
Policy Responses to the User-Generated Content Boom
After a two-week hiatus, my weekly Law Bytes column is back (Toronto Star version, homepage version) with some reflections on Time Magazine's selection of "You" as the person of the year. Starting from the premise that the choice may ultimately be viewed as the tipping point when the remarkable outbreak of Internet participation that encompasses millions of bloggers, music remixers, amateur video creators, citizen journalists, wikipedians, and Flickr photographers broke into the mainstream, I focus on how governments and policy makers might assess how they fit into the world of a participatory Internet and user-generated content. I argue that it can do so by focusing on the three "C’s" – connectivity, content, and copyright.