Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has pointed to US polling showing that as much as 45 percent of employers use social networking sites when scrutinizing job candidates. This didn’t surprise me, as I happen to know someone whose full-time job was […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The New York Times has recently published an interesting article about academic plagiarism. Within the article, a couple of examples of plagiarism are provided. The first example involves a freshman student who copied and pasted from a Web site’s frequently asked questions page, and […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In a recent English case involving the Times Newspapers Ltd (“Times”) and Detective Sergeant Gary Flood (“DS Flood”), the Court of Appeal interpreted the “Reynolds defence” to defamation and also decided that a newspaper publishing allegations on its website after it was communicated to […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. To help protect authors, the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 provided for inalienable termination rights, rights unique to the United States. An inalienable termination right means that when an author assigns their copyright rights to a publisher, and even if that assignment agreement stipulates […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has recently decided the case of Pequignot v. Solo Cup Co. between Matthew Pequignot, a licensed patent attorney, and the Solo Cup Company (“Solo”), a company that manufactures disposable cups, bowls, plates, and utensils. […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On June 2, 2010 the Federal Government of Canada introduced the Copyright Modernization Act (or Bill C-32) that proposes to amend the Copyright Act to better address the “challenges and opportunities presented by the digital age”. The Bill comes about two years after its […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On Tuesday, May 25 the Government of Canada introduced Bill C-29 to amend the legislation protecting the personal information of Canadians (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, or PIPEDA) in order to create a more secure online environment for both consumers and businesses. […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Granting summary judgment in favour of the music industry, a US federal court has found peer-to-peer file-sharing service LimeWire liable for copyright infringement. This judgment is yet another in a long line of cases that have established that distributing and maintaining a file-sharing service […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In Football Dataco Ltd & Ors v Brittens Pools Ltd & Ors the England and Wales High Court has recently ruled on the copyright status of annual football fixtures lists produced and published for the purposes of the English and Scottish Premier leagues and […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. For those unfamiliar with the term “cloud computing”, it refers to performing the functions of personal computers – such as running applications, communicating, and storing data – not on those personal computers, but rather on servers. Cloud computing is likely already part of your life. […]