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Positionless at WIPO

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 […]

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September 28, 2005 1 comment News

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 […]

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September 25, 2005 Comments are Disabled Columns

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 […]

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September 23, 2005 4 comments News

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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September 22, 2005 Comments are Disabled News

Emerson on Broadband

Industry Minister David Emerson used a speech in Toronto yesterday to emphasize the need to prioritize broadband access nationwide.  This issue has unfortunately stalled in recent years as Canada has seen its global ranking decline.  It is therefore encouraging to hear Emerson state that: "We’ve also been a leader in […]

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September 22, 2005 Comments are Disabled News