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No Record Label Licences? No Problem it seems for Google’s Music Locker

No Record Label Licences? No Problem it seems for Google’s Music Locker

Danny Titolo is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Google has officially entered the online music storage and streaming field. The service is called Music Beta by Google, and allows users to upload music libraries to a personal storage locker online. From this storage locker or cloud, users can then download or stream […]

Fired for Comments on Facebook: Speech, Social Media, and the Workplace

Fired for Comments on Facebook: Speech, Social Media, and the Workplace

Andrew Baker is a LLB/BCL candidate at McGill University Faculty of Law. A recent decision of a UK Labour Tribunal has upheld the dismissal of an employee for comments made on her Facebook page.  The case demonstrates the increasing use of social media in the employer/employee relationship and the legal effects on speech.

How Private Information Became “News of the World”

How Private Information Became “News of the World”

Dan Whalen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. As the volume of litigants and evidence stacks up against News of the World amid the ongoing British phone-hacking scandal, onlookers have increasingly begun to wonder how it had gotten so far without any serious repercussions. New investigations not only give concerning accounts of […]