Technically Beautiful? The SCC and the Internet Age
Today marks an interesting anniversary in the Court’s jurisprudence. Ten years ago today, the Supreme Court released its decision in the case of U.F.C.W., Local 1518, v. KMart Canada Ltd., [1999] 2...
View ArticleBell Canada v. Bell Aliant Region Communications: Regulation of the...
On September 18, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in Bell Canada v. Bell Aliant Region Communications, 2009 SCC 40. Touching on areas such as administrative and communications law, the...
View ArticleR. v. Morelli: Understanding Criminal Possession of Digital Property
In R. v. Morelli (2010 SCC 8) the Supreme Court of Canada was faced with a number of complex and intertwined legal issues. The child pornography case turned on the validity of a search warrant obtained...
View ArticlePotential Liability For Hyperlinking: Crookes v. Newton
Considering putting a hyperlink on your website or blog? The case Crookes v. Newton, 2009 BCCA 392, may give you pause to reconsider. Although the British Columbia Court of Appeal held in Crookes that...
View ArticleModern-Day David and Goliath Battle Could Head to U.S. Supreme Court: i4i v....
Technology giant Microsoft Corp. has made one last-ditch effort to defend a decade-long patent infringement lawsuit against a small Canadian software company, i4i Inc. Last week, Microsoft filed a...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court in Bilski et al. v. Kappos tap floodgates for “business...
On June 28, 2010, the US Supreme Court released its reasons in Bilski et al. v. Kappos, No.08-964 545 F. 3d 943 (PDF link) (“Bilski”). The case was widely followed, in particular, by intellectual...
View Article“Officer Bubbles” Sues YouTube and Anonymous Commenters for Online Defamation
On September 22, 2010, Toronto Police Constable Adam Josephs launched a lawsuit in the Ontario Superior Court: Adam Josephs v. YouTube et. al (2010) CV-10-410890 (Ont. Sup. Ct.) (“Josephs v. YouTube”)....
View Article30 Seconds to Mars the SCC
iTunes, Amazon.com, Puretracks.com, Rogers Music Store, Sympatico Music Store. For those music lovers who legally download music, these various websites are but a few examples of online sources for mp3...
View ArticleCell Phones & Sawed-off Shot Guns (R. v. Manley)
Over the December holidays, I succumbed to Apple’s iPhone 4: 9.3 mm thin, recyclable aluminosilicate glass, retina display, A4 chip, Camera & LED…it’s everything I ever wanted in a phone! Moreover,...
View ArticleWhat’s in a (Domain) Name? Ontario Courts, International Administrators, and...
The legal concept of property is fluid and dynamic. It evolves over time in relation to “changes in the purposes which society or the dominant classes in society expect the institution of property to...
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