Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. once described the law as nothing more than “prophecies of what the courts will do in fact.” If the practice of law is largely an exercise…
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IP Intensive: Inside the Sausage Factory at Canadian Heritage
“Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made.” Or so Otto Von Bismarck is (incorrectly) said to have said. That may well be true for the…
No Laughing Matter: Copyright Protection for Jokes
Some people just can’t take a joke. Other people have taken jokes, and it has landed them in court. Two recent American copyright cases offer an opportunity to look at…
Pokémon Go: Augmenting Legal Reality
Even in 2016, it is tempting to treat the Internet as separate from the bricks-and-mortar world. As much as we might like to keep them apart, Augmented Reality apps like…
Stop Gaming the System, Gamers: Twitch Sues Over Fake Viewer Bots
As the New Yorker caption goes, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” Update that for 2016: on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a bot. Twitch, a video streaming…