The Government will likely introduce new Bills to amend the Copyright Act and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) within the next few days. The Parliament of Canada Notice Paper for Wednesday September 28, 2011 provides notice that the Minister of Industry and Minister of State (Agriculture) will introduce a Bill entitled “An Act to Amend the Copyright Act” and a Bill entitled “An Act to Amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act”. The actual notices are dated September 27, 2011, which means that the Bills could be introduced as early as this Thursday.
Copyright and privacy bills to be introduced in House of Commons
Computer and Internet Law Weekly Updates for 2010-04-18Computer and Internet Law Weekly Updates for 2010-04-18
IRMA/Eircom graduated response agreement found compatible with UK data protection legislation. http://ow.ly/1zjbg # Text of ACTA to be made public following NZ meetings according to Joint statementhttp://ow.ly/1zrzZ # Debate: Graduated response to copyright infringement – Debatepedia http://bit.ly/bG8YG8 ...
Criminal copyright convictions of The Pirate Bay operators “necessity in democratic society” says human rights courtCriminal copyright convictions of The Pirate Bay operators “necessity in democratic society” says human rights court
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that the convictions of Fredrik NEIJ and Peter SUNDE KOLMISOPPI, operators of The Pirate Bay bittorrent site did not violate Article 10 of the European Convention ...
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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals released its decision in the WPIX, INC., v ivi INC. 2012 WL 3645304, (2nd.Cir.Aug. 27, 2012) case yesterday. It dismissed ivi’s appeal from a preliminary injunction prohibiting Ivi from ...