Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. Mekhala Chaubal is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. 2011 will be remembered as a year of social movements and political upheavals in many parts of the world. This trend of transformation and development extended to Canadian and international intellectual property law. As a […]
Mark Bowman is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Court of Justice of the European Communities has ruled that internet service providers (ISPs) cannot be forced to monitor subscriber traffic if doing so impedes on their freedom to conduct their business and if doing so would infringe on the fundamental rights of […]
Sue Gaudi is the Vice-President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at The Globe and Mail Inc. She presented the following talk at a lecture to students in IP Osgoode's internship program, the Intellectual Property Law and Technology Intensive Program (IP Intensive). We are very pleased that The Globe and Mail is hosting one of our […]
Jennifer O’Dell is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall and Denise Brunsdon is a social media writer and researcher. In the wake of GooglePlus’ (Google+) strong launch with its much-lauded privacy settings, Facebook recently announced their new contribution to Internet privacy in social networking. For those hoping that these changes signal an important ideological shift […]
Brent Randall is a JD candidate at the University of Ottawa. After a very difficult summer regarding the security of the personal information of Sony customers, the technology company has chosen to protect itself from class action litigation in the future. In the Terms of Service (TOS) for the company’s Playstation Network, which is where […]
Michael Gilburt is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. David Lammy, Member of Parliament for Tottenham, has called for the suspension and surveillance of the BlackBerry Messenger (“BBM”) service after evidence indicated that the popular communication platform helped facilitate the London riots.
Satomi Aki is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the independent advertising watchdog of the UK, upheld On July 13, 2011, complaints against Jamster, a SMS mobile phone content provider, over their ad for a joke phone hacking app that was originally televised in April 2011.
Dan Whalen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Disgraced UK tabloid News of the World has finally crumbled under the mounting weight of the national phone-hacking scandal. As investigations heat up and criminal charges seem imminent, it is worthwhile to examine the law that prosecutors will seek to uphold and once again […]
Andrew Baker is an LLB/BCL candidate at McGill University Faculty of Law. Recent developments in the UK, including the notorious case of a famous footballer and a report from Lord Neuberger, have once again called into question the use of the super-injunction as a method of protecting privacy prompting responses from MPs, the judiciary, and […]
Jeffrey O’Brien is a JD candidate at the University of Alberta. In the recent case R v The Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom decided that the police can never hold on to DNA evidence collected from suspects not subsequently convicted.