News of the Week; September 26, 2018
DIGITAL Québec Appeals Superior Court Ruling that Bill 74 is Unconstitutional Protecting Your Social Media Profile: How One New Zealand Technology Company Allegedly Violated Canadian Privacy Law Departing Employee Required to Transfer Social Media Accounts–Hyperheal Hyperbarics v. Shapiro District Court Misses The Forest For The Trees In Dismissing Constitutional Challenge To FOSTA What’s next for […]
News of the Week; September 19, 2018
DIGITAL SCC rules for ISPs in ‘test case’ for copyright infringement litigation costs Rogers Wins in Supreme Court of Canada (Howard Knopf) Rogers v. Voltage – My comments today September 14, 2018 on CTV (Howard Knopf) Supreme Court of Canada on Copyright Notices: Identification of IP Address “Not Conclusive of Guilt” (Michael Geist) Notice the […]
News of the Week; September 12, 2018
DIGITAL An EU copyright bill could force YouTube-style filtering across the Web What’s in the sweeping copyright bill just passed by the European Parliament Creators Supporting Link Taxes And Mandatory Filters Are Handing The Internet Over To The Companies They Hate The dangers hidden in the proposed Copyright Directive (Andres Guadamuz) The Intellectual Dishonesty Of […]
News of the Week; September 5, 2018
DIGITAL DOJ: We will examine social media firms that “may be hurting competition” We Shouldn’t Want Internet Giants Deciding Who To Silence; But They Should Let Users Decide Who To Hear Netflix and Other Streaming Services May Soon Be Legally Required to Make Content for Europe Netflix and Amazon will have to make more European […]
News of the Week; August 29, 2018
DIGITAL Blueprints For 3D Printed Guns Will Stay (Sort Of) Offline, Judge Rules Judge allows temporary ban on 3D-printed gun files to continue After court order, 3D-printed gun pioneer now sells pay-what-you-want CAD files Supreme Court rules ISPs entitled to recover costs of blocking websites selling counterfeit goods Important Appeals Court Ruling States Clearly That […]