Yesterday, Rogers, Telus, Bell and Quebecor commenced an action against the copyright collective SOCAN. In the Federal Court suit Canada’s leading carriers are claiming a refund of all royalties paid to SOCAN under its Tariff 24 (Ringtone) tariffs since November, 2006.
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Retirement of Mario Bouchard http://wp.me/p3flp9-2NA
Can a Website Disclaimer Prevent Declaratory Judgment Actions in IP Cases? Maybe…or Maybe Not http://buff.ly/126bL5l
The Internet Society Wants to Punch Your Nose and Commoditize You Without Your Permission http://buff.ly/17fQH5t
ASSOCIATION FOR MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY v MYRIAD GENETICS – a comparison with EU and Australian law http://buff.ly/18QUYg3
State photo-ID databases become troves for police in US http://buff.ly/17SqYiQ
More IP books for review http://buff.ly/18QSyOC
U.K. hacked diplomats’ phones, emails, Guardian reports http://buff.ly/11sxS7g
New DRM Changes Text of eBooks to Catch Pirates http://bit.ly/ZX8SYc
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- CRTC Issues CASL (Canada’s Anti-Spam Law) Guidelines, background and commentary
- Developments in Computer, Internet and E-Commerce Law (2011-2012)
- Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations – Much Work Remains
- Evaluating the Industry Canada CASL regulations: my submission to the consultation
- Evaluating the Industry Canada CASL regulations: why they are needed
- Fixing CASL: comments on the draft CRTC and Industry Canada regulations
- Hyperlinking and ISP liability clarified by Supreme Court in Crookes case
- Impacts of Bill C-28 (the new anti-SPAM and anti-spyware legislation)
- Is Google News legal?
- Most popular intellectual property and technology law blogs
- My C-32 opening remarks
- My remarks to the Senate Committee studying Bill C-11
- New CASL regulations coming but will they fall short?
- Privacy law PIPA unconstitutional says Alberta CA in UFCW v Alberta
- Reflections on the new CRTC CASL regulations
- Rethinking FISA (Canada's Anti-SPAM law)
- So you want to protect computer programs by copyright, the Oracle v Google and SAS v WPL cases
- Social media, intellectual property and the workplace, is there a gap in the law?
- Some observations on Bill C-11: The Copyright Modernization Act
- The Supreme Court rules on copyright
- Understanding Flava Works v myVidster: does inline linking infringe copyright?
- Will it be illegal to recommend a dentist under Canada’s new anti-spam law (CASL)?
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