Author: Barry Sookman

Generative AI: my keynote speech on the challenges and legal issues at ITechLawGenerative AI: my keynote speech on the challenges and legal issues at ITechLaw



I was delighted to have had the opportunity to discuss the challenges and legal issues associated with generative AI at the 2023 World Technology Law Conference in Toronto. I gave the keynote speech which was followed by presentations showing various uses of generative AI by Kritika Bharadwaj (Day Pitney LLP, United States), Matt Hervey (Gowling WLG, United Kingdom), Ideshini Naidoo (Thomson Reuters, Canada), and Stephen Henderson (Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, Canada).

The ITechLaw Association meeting had two other good sessions on generative AI.…

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Contracting for AI in tech contracts

Contracting for tech under the AI provisions of CPPA, AIDA and Law 25Contracting for tech under the AI provisions of CPPA, AIDA and Law 25



I had the pleasure to speak at the McCarthy Tetrault AI Summit along with my colleague Mike Scherman. The AI summit was attended by over 1,000 McCarthy Clients eager to hear about AI legal and regulation issues.

Mike and I spoke on the topic of Contracting for tech under the AI provisions of CPPA, AIDA and Law 25. We stressed the importance of including present and  future AI regulatory issues in the tech contracting process.

Our slides can be accessed below.…

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Sookman ALAI Copyright Year in Review

ALAI CANADA – ANNUAL MID-YEAR REVIEW OF CANADIAN COPYRIGHT LAW DEVELOPMENTSALAI CANADA – ANNUAL MID-YEAR REVIEW OF CANADIAN COPYRIGHT LAW DEVELOPMENTS



I was very pleased to give a presentation to ALAI Canada on developments in Canadian copyright law (from May 2022-May 2023). Last year’s Annual Copyright Review can be accessed here.

These were the cases I talked about.

IMS Incorporated v. Toronto Regional Real Estate Board, 2023 FCA 70
Audax Architecture Inc. v. McCuaig, 2022 FC 1747
Whitehall Entertainment Incorporated v. Kafka Pictures Inc., 2022 BCPC 184
Fox Restaurant Concepts LLC v. 43 North Restaurant Group Inc., 2022 FC 1149
Tremblay v.…

Google defamation

Google liable for $500,000 in damages for not delisting defamatory information: A.B. v GoogleGoogle liable for $500,000 in damages for not delisting defamatory information: A.B. v Google



In what has become a series of worldwide struggles against Google by persons whose reputations have been ruined by defamatory posts which Google refuses to de-list from its search engines, a Quebec man was awarded $500,000 in moral damages and a de-listing injunction against Google for breach of his rights under the Quebec Civil Code. The battle which started approximately 16 years ago and which ended after more than 6 years of litigation is reported in the case, A.B. c. Google, 2023 QCCS 1167.…

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