Post Tagged with: "internet"

What Do You Want the Internet To Be?

My weekly Law Bytes column (homepage version) highlights several potential Canadian policies that may create a very different Internet. They include ubiquitous network surveillance through the lawful access initiative, ISPs that engage in packet preferencing as in the two cases last week involving Vonage and Telkom Kenya, a new extended license that would require schools to pay millions of dollars for content that is currently freely available on the Internet, and rules that make it far easier to remove an allegedly infringing song than to remove dangerous child pornography. It concludes by riffing on an old Nortel ad campaign by asking whether this is really what we want the Internet to be?

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March 7, 2005 Comments are Disabled Columns

Will Canadian Cultural Policy Survive in the Age of the Internet?

Professor Geist’s weekly Toronto Star Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, HTML backup article, homepage version) examines several recent Canadian legal developments including CRTC hearings on satellite radio and VoIP, a Quebec court decision on satellite television, and copyright reform, arguing that the common thread through the cases how to […]

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November 8, 2004 Comments are Disabled Columns

E-Borders, Internet and IT Technologies

United States Department of Commerce Commercial Law Development Program, Washington, DC

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June 12, 2003 Comments are Disabled Conferences

Fairness Says It’s Time to Tax Goods Sold Online

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To those following the Internet taxation debate, the story smacks of déjà vu. 

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March 24, 2003 Comments are Disabled Columns Archive

Internet and E-commerce Law Update

Ottawa Technology Lawyers Group, Ottawa, ON

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November 12, 2002 Comments are Disabled Conferences