Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University In June of 2010, the UK’s Digital Economy Act came into force. The Act “includes provisions relating to the UK’s communications infrastructure, public service broadcasting, copyright licensing and online infringement of copyright, and security and safety online and in video games”. The Act was controversial from […]
Susan H. Abramovitch is a partner in Gowlings' Toronto office, practising exclusively in entertainment law. Susan's practice covers all aspects of music industry transactions, as well as film, television, live theatre, multimedia, videogaming and book publishing. IPilogue Editor Stuart Freen sat down with her earlier this week to talk about the video gaming industry and […]
Giovanni Maria Riccio is an IP Osgoode research affiliate, a professor of private comparative law at the University of Salerno, and an associate at Mazzetti Rossi e Associate On October 25, the Italian Data Protection Commissioner issued an interesting decision on Google Street View. Following a similar decision by the German Data Protection Authority, the […]
Dan Whalen is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School Earlier this month, a Québec court upheld a 2008 US judgment ordering self-styled “online marketer” Adam Guerbuez to pay over $1-billion (CAD) to Facebook, Inc. Guerbuez, a Montreal resident, was tried in absentia in California for allegedly pilfering Facebook users’ personal information to flood […]
Matt Lonsdale is a JD Candidate at Dalhousie University Last week the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) released its Annual Report to Parliament on the Privacy Act. A recurring theme is the friction at the nexus between individual privacy interests, national security concerns, and technological advances. In the Commissioner’s opening statement, she […]
Matt Lonsdale is a JD Candidate at Dalhousie University This November, Jennifer Stoddart’s term as Canada’s Privacy Commissioner will come to an end. The Conservative government may choose to re-appoint her and Stoddart has indicated she would accept the appointment if it were offered. However, the Vancouver Sun is reporting that it’s uncertain whether they […]
Nathan Fan is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School In a decision with “big brother” dimensions, the 9th Circuit on August 12, 2010 affirmed a ruling that the Fourth Amendment right is not violated when law enforcement agents enter a driveway without a warrant to plant a surveillance device on one’s car. With […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has pointed to US polling showing that as much as 45 percent of employers use social networking sites when scrutinizing job candidates. This didn’t surprise me, as I happen to know someone whose full-time job was […]
Robert Dewald is a J.D. Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School Canadian telecommunications giant Research in Motion (RIM), which manufacturers the popular BlackBerry, has reportedly offered information and tools to assist India’s government in monitoring encrypted emails and messaging services (Reuters). India, which had threatened to shut down the BlackBerry service, is the latest country to […]
Michael John Long is an LLM candidate advancing to the PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School In a recent blog posted on the IP Osgoode website I considered the ruling in City of Ontario v. Quon; a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the issue of the privacy of employee text messages […]