Posted: July 7th, 2011 | Author: Giselle Chin | Filed under: International, Internet, Policy | No Comments »
On the day America celebrated its independence, Microsoft announced its growing presence in the Chinese market for online searches with a deal with Baidu, China’s leading search engine: Microsoft will supply search results for English-language queries on the Chinese search provider. More controversially, Microsoft will also censor its search results according to local law. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: June 7th, 2011 | Author: Giselle Chin | Filed under: Copyright, Copyright Reform, International, Policy | No Comments »
It seems the Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, is serious about his critique on today’s copyright laws. So serious, in fact, that he is looking into adjusting Russia’s copyright laws in the other direction by creating a Creative Commons styled copyright scheme.
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Posted: June 7th, 2011 | Author: Giselle Chin | Filed under: Intellectual Property, International, Internet, Policy | No Comments »
Most G8 leaders expressed support for greater internet regulation at the recent G8 Internet Summit, particularly in the areas of copyright issues. One focus of the Summit was an attempt to put together specific recommendations on “internet governance”. Regarding intellectual property, the Deauville communiqué renewed the countries’ commitment in ratcheting up enforcement against IP infringements.
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Posted: May 25th, 2011 | Author: Giselle Chin | Filed under: International, Internet, Policy | 1 Comment »
World leaders and movers and shakers of this digital age are gathered in Paris, France, just two days ahead of the 37th G8 Summit, for the first ever e>G8 Forum. The two-day forum is hosted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy with a focus on internet regulation. The purpose of the forum is to gather private sector technology leaders for plenary sessions, town hall meetings, and workshops to inform G8 nation heads and enrich their discussions at the following Summit. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: May 13th, 2011 | Author: Giselle Chin | Filed under: International, Internet, Privacy | No Comments »
In an attempt to prevent the spreading of sensitive information, a judge in Britain has banned Twitter and Facebook users, among others, from revealing details about a brain-damaged woman involved in a recent UK case. The order was issued in the Court of Protection regarding the case of a mother looking to withdraw life support from her brain damaged daughter. The ban seeks to prevent users from identifying the brain-damaged woman and her caregivers. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: May 4th, 2011 | Author: Giselle Chin | Filed under: Digital Content, International, Privacy | No Comments »
A class action has been filed in Ontario on behalf of approximately one million Canadian PlayStation and Qriocity users against Sony Corporation. The proposed lawsuit comes on the heels of what has become a string of data breaches and crumbling trust in the multinational corporation’s data security systems. Sony Corp’s announced in April that hackers had managed to break into databases containing personal information associated with nearly 100 million worldwide user accounts on the company’s popular PlayStation Network. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 20th, 2011 | Author: Giselle Chin | Filed under: Events, Intellectual Property, International, Policy | No Comments »
McGill University and the University of Western Ontario are hosting their fifth Transatlantic IP conference in Montreal, June 13 – 17. Open to students and practitioners, the conference features lectures by leading IP scholars and researchers from ten countries across Europe and North America. The focus of the conference will be on IP Rights and Scientific Research and IP in the Digital Environment, particularly at the international and comparative level.
For more information and registration details visit: www.law.uwo.ca/tipsa.
Posted: March 23rd, 2011 | Author: Catherine Marchant | Filed under: Featured, International, Internet, Privacy, Technology | 2 Comments »
The Federal Trade Commission, consumer advocates, and some legislators have been considering online privacy for years, but the issue has been increasingly in the forefront. The FTC released a “Do Not Track” Proposal in December, and several media sources have focused on the issue recently. The Wall Street Journal ran a series last summer entitled “What They Know”, which revealed that many websites install tracking tools on users’ computers Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: March 9th, 2011 | Author: Giselle Chin | Filed under: Competition, Copyright, Digital Content, International, Policy | No Comments »
Great music knows no boundaries, especially pirated music. Canada’s Social Science Research Council has just released the first independent, large-scale study of media piracy and enforcement in emerging economies, focusing on Brazil, Bolivia, India, Mexico, Russia and South Africa. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: March 7th, 2011 | Author: Susan Deefholts | Filed under: Business, Competition, Events, Intellectual Property, International, Policy | No Comments »
Dr. Ignacio de Leon will be speaking on Wednesday, March 9 and Thursday, March 10, as part of a joint speaker series co-sponsored by the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy and the Law and Development Society. For full details, please click through.
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