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Crystal Ball Gazing At The Coming Year in Tech Law

Predicting the future of Canadian technology law is challenging at the best of times, but during an election campaign prognostications are admittedly likely to be about as accurate as a coin flip. With that caveat in mind, my weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, freely available version) offers up […]

January 9, 2006 — 1 comment — Columns

Tone Deaf

The Sam Bulte fundraiser story has gone mainstream, with press coverage from the Canadian Press and the Toronto Star. The Canadian Press story focuses on concerns from noted Canadian historian and politican scientist Jack Granatstein, who says the fundraiser is inappropriate, adding that: "I worry when any politician, at any […]

January 6, 2006 — 13 comments — News

Sony Hit With Canadian Class Action Suits

With Sony slated to appear in a New York courtroom on Friday to seek approval for its class action settlement for the rootkit fiasco, its Canadian arm is now facing several Canadian class action suits. The Merchant Law Firm, based in Calgary, launched class action suits in both the Ontario […]

January 5, 2006 — 6 comments — News

Cleaning Up Copyright

With both prospective Canadian Heritage Ministers accepting copyright lobby cash (see The Sad Reality of Copyright Policy In Canada, Campaign Contributions, Tipping Point, That's What Friends Are For) and the funders making it clear that they are in the market for more (see Business As Usual), it is time to […]

January 4, 2006 — 9 comments — News

Business As Usual

Kudos to the Hollywood Reporter for jumping in this morning and covering (brief display) the Bulte story with an enlightening piece that includes comments from Douglas Frith of the CMPDA (movies) and Graham Henderson of CRIA. Leaving aside Frith's bizarre comment that on copyright "Canada is beginning to look like […]

January 4, 2006 — Comments are Disabled — News