Posted: October 24th, 2011 | Author: Sarit Pandya | Filed under: Copyright, Copyright Reform, Featured, Internet, Media, Technology | No Comments »
Last Wednesday (October 19th, 2011), the Supreme Court of Canada released its judgement on Crookes v. Newton (2011 SCC 47). The case focused on whether or not liability existed when one post hyperlinks to allegedly defamatory material on the internet. The court’s decision was succinctly summarized by Justice Abella, who stated, “I would conclude that a hyperlink, by itself, should never be seen as “publication” of the content to which it refers.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: October 18th, 2011 | Author: Sarit Pandya | Filed under: Events | No Comments »
The first panel at the Cloudlaw Conference as on the topic of Jurisdiction. The three speakers were Professor Anupam Chander from the UCDavis School of Law, Professor Andrew Clement from the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, and Mr. Steve Mutkoski, who is the Worldwide Policy Director for Microsoft Corporation.
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Posted: October 17th, 2011 | Author: Kevin P. Siu | Filed under: Events, Intellectual Property | No Comments »
The last panel of last Friday’s CloudLaw conference was the Competition Policy and Intellectual Property panel discussing the existing policies regulating cloud computing providers, the effect of government legislation on cloud computing, and how upcoming IP and copyright legislation will affect the future growth of the field.
The four distinguished speakers were Prof. Salil Mehra from the Temple University Beasley School of Law, Prof. Pamela Samuelson from the Berkeley Law School, Dr. Craig McTaggart, Director of Broadband Policy from TELUS Communications, and Prof. Oliver Goodenough from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
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Posted: October 16th, 2011 | Author: Henry Ren | Filed under: Business, Competition, Intellectual Property, International, Patent | 1 Comment »
In the latest development in the legal saga between Apple and Samsung, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh tentatively declined to issue a preliminary injunction that would bar some Samsung smartphones and tablets from U.S. sale. In July, Apple had requested the injunction from the Northern District Californian federal court on the basis that Samsung’s Galaxy line of products copies the iPhone and iPad in functions and appearance. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: October 13th, 2011 | Author: Giselle Chin | Filed under: Digital Content, Events, Intellectual Property, Policy, Technology | No Comments »
Watch the live webcast of the Fall 2011 Cloud Computing Conference: Law and Policy Issues in the Cloud here. The Conference begins at 9:00 am Friday, October 14, and ends at 5:00 pm the same day.
Posted: October 8th, 2011 | Author: William Wu | Filed under: Copyright, Copyright Reform, Digital Content, Fair Dealing, Internet | No Comments »
Last week the Canadian federal government introduced Bill C-11, entitled An Act to Amend the Copyright Act. Since 2005, there had been three failed attempts at copyright reforms by the federal government. The last such attempt was Bill C-32 introduced in June 2010 during the last parliament, which died on the order paper when the federal election was called last spring. The new Bill C-11 is identical to Bill C-32. The following are some of the highlights from the bill: Read the rest of this entry »
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