Article from the Barbados Advocate highlighting recent e-commerce law developments in Barbados and need for infrastructure development. see: CAIP v. SOCAN also see: ISPs Free From Paying Royalties for Downloads
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Canadian Arbitrator Overturns Dismissal Over Employee Email Usage
A Canadian labor arbitrator has overturned a decision by a government department to fire six employees who swapped pornographic emails at work. The arbitrator ruled the employer lacked sufficient cause for the firings. Professor Geist comments on the shifting standards under Canadian law for workplace computer surveillance. see: CAIP v. […]
Canadian Supreme Court Opens Up Second Copyright Balance
Professor Geist's latest Toronto Star Lawbytes column (Toronto Star version, HTML backup article, homepage version) examines last week's Supreme Court of Canada Tariff 22 decision. The column argues that the case may damage the music industry's strategy of suing individual file sharers as one member of the court offered a […]
Using Tariff 22 Decision To Sue Offshore Sites
The National Post features a story today on recording industry plans to use the Tariff 22 decision as the basis for suits against offshore sites. Professor Geist comments that similar suits against Grokster in the U.S. have succeeded on jurisdictional grounds but failed to show copyright infringement. see: CAIP v. […]
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