Just because technology now exists to track a person through their mobile phone does not mean you are legally entitled to do so. This was the main conclusion by the…
Month: July 2013
Yahoo! Wins Twice At the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
On July 15th, 2013, Judge Walton of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (“FISC”) granted a motion put forward by Yahoo on June 14th, which called for the release of…
.shut-out for Legal Rights Objections in New gTLD Registrations
As of July 25th, WIPO has rejected all of the first 14 Legal Rights Objections (LRO) filed in response to applications for the registration of new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). While…
The Internet Taxi: Collective Management of Copyright and the Making Available Right, after the Pentalogy
Just after the adoption of Bill C-11,[1] the Supreme Court of Canada handed down five decisions, which are now referred to as the “pentalogy”, to follow the heretofore famous trilogy.[2]…
A New Arrival in the IGF Family: the Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality
The re-posting of this analysis is part of a cross-posting collaboration with MediaLaws: Law and Policy of the Media in a Comparative Perspective. (more…)
17 Year-Old Patent Causing Problems for Podcasters
Is a podcast analogous to a cassette tape recording of a magazine article? Jim Logan of Personal Audio thinks that it is, and that it thereby infringes his patent. (more…)