Podcast Archive - Michael Geist
Oct 28, 2024 · This podcast drops on Monday, October 7th, the one-year anniversary of the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. I’ve largely kept the issue the rising tide of antisemitism since the Hamas terrorist attacks off the Law Bytes podcast, but those that follow my work will know that I have […]
The Canadian Digital Law Decade: The Ten Most Notable Cases, …
Dec 19, 2019 · As the decade nears an end, there have been no shortage of decade in review pieces. This post adds to the list with my take on the most notable Canadian digital cases, legislative initiatives, and policies of the past ten years.
Welcome to Michael Geist's Home on the Web. - Michael Geist
I am a law professor at the University of Ottawa where I hold the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law. I publish a wide range of articles, newsletters, and reports and I am involved in a several interesting Internet policy projects.
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Jun 21, 2021 · Michael Geist [email protected]. This web site is licensed under a Creative Commons License, although certain works referenced herein may be separately licensed.
Supreme Court of Canada Rules Text Messages May Attract …
Dec 8, 2017 · The Supreme Court of Canada has issued a landmark decision concluding that text messages may attract a reasonable expectation of privacy even after they have been sent and received. The case recognizes the importance of electronic communications and the privacy implications of electronic messaging, establishing a standard that is likely to have a significant impact on investigations across the ...
The Bill on Canada’s Digital Policy Comes Due: Blocked News Links ...
Sep 25, 2024 · Canada’s digital policy has seemingly long proceeded on the assumption that tech companies would draw from an unlimited budget to write bigger cheques to meet government regulation establishing new mandated payments. Despite repeated warnings on Bills C-11 (Internet streaming), C-18 (online news), and a new digital services tax that tech companies - like anyone else - were more likely to ...
Canada's Internet Music Success Story: SOCAN's Canadian Internet ...
Feb 25, 2019 · While the music industry continues to focus on a so-called "value gap" that does not reflect the state of Canadian law, mounting data also suggests that it does not provide an accurate depiction of the revenues being generated in Canada today from Internet streaming. SOCAN, Canada's largest music copyright collective, last week reported preliminary numbers for 2018, with the data indicating ...
Blocking is Back: Why Internet Blocking is the Next Big Canadian …
Mar 17, 2021 · In early 2018, Bell led a consortium of companies and organizations arguing for the creation of a new website blocking system in Canada. Complete with a new anti-piracy agency and CRTC stamp of approval, the vision was to create a new system to mandate site blocking across ISPs in Canada. Canadians challenged the so-called FairPlay proposal and the CRTC rejected the Bell application on ...
“From Radical Extremism to Balanced Copyright”: Canadian …
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In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law
Michael Geist [email protected]. This web site is licensed under a Creative Commons License, although certain works referenced herein may be separately licensed.