Ryan Erdman is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The National College Athletic Association (NCAA), a multi-billion-dollar corporation, serves as the dominant sanctioning organization for…
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Ontario Court Of Appeal Finds Insurance Coverage Does Not Apply To Cyber Hack
This article was originally published on E-TIPS™ For Deeth Williams Wall LLP on April 14, 2021. On March 15, 2021, the Ontario Court of Appeal (the Court), in Family and Children’s…
Kimble v Marvel gets caught up in SCOTUS's web
United States Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is a fan of comics. If you had not already read that in her bio at SCOTUS-tracking blog Supreme Court Review, you might…
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The Academy Awards Selfie Rights Debate
Copyright ownership in Ellen Degeneres’ famous Oscar Twitter Selfie, which holds the record for most retweets, might be unclear, but for the average citizen sharing the picture, it doesn’t matter much. Canada’s fair dealing…
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Dating Sites Scrape Internet for Women’s Photos, Including Those of Deceased
Dubious and likely illegal image scraping is alive and well. And outside of particularly public, harmful cases like Rehtaeh Parsons’ photo ending up on a dating site, few organizations or…
Pride and Percentages: Copyright Term Limits and Payments to Authors in the Romantic Period
In common law countries, the term of protection granted by copyright has been steadily growing ever since its advent in the eighteenth century, yet the benefits of these term extensions…