Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Professor Robert Howell, of the University of Victoria, has authored a new book with Irwin Law entitled Canadian Telecommunications Law.
Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Earlier this month, the CopySouth Research Group released a new set of papers that critically analyse the failings and contradictions of the international copyright system.
Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The United Kingdom’s coalition government has asked telecommunications regulator Ofcom to review certain parts of the Digital Economy Act 2010 which would force ISPs to block access to websites that enable copyright infringement.
Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In one of the sleaziest moves to hit the internet in a while (and that is a very low bar), online dating site Gotham Dating Partners Inc. announced this month that it plans to take the information from up to 340 million public Facebook […]
Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In a blog post on his personal website, Mozilla global privacy and public-policy leader Alexander Fowler revealed that upcoming releases of Firefox will include a “Do Not Track” feature designed to stop online advertisers from tracking users. Google announced the same day that it will release a […]
Stuart Freen is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In a strongly-worded letter leaked on Michael Geist’s website, the CRTC has accused Rogers with failing to live up to its net neutrality obligations. The letter charges that Rogers’ internet traffic management policies “were not reflected on Rogers’ website and thus did not meet […]
Stuart Freen is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Sony Computer Entertainment America has launched a legal action against a number of computer hackers in an attempt to halt the proliferation of a Playstation 3 security breach. Last month two hacking groups cracked the PS3’s technological protection measures, potentially allowing users to play […]
Stuart Freen is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and a former Artmob research assistant. On January 13th, the York University based research project Artmob will host a demonstration of its content management software and begin a new round of beta testing. Artmob is an initiative to develop a multimedia digital archiving system […]
Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School Can a blogger posting links on a website be held liable for the contents of those linked sites? This is the question that was posed to the Supreme Court of Canada last week when it heard Crookes v. Newton, the latest case to tackle […]
Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency confirmed on Monday that it seized 82 domain names belonging to websites that were allegedly trading in pirated and counterfeit goods. The agency claims this is only an intermediate step in a larger ongoing project […]