Updated December 2017
Michael Geist, Professor of Law Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law Faculty of Law, Common Law Section Centre for Law, Technology and Society
DEGREES
J.S.D., Columbia University, School of Law, 2002
LL.M., Columbia University, School of Law, 1998
LL.M. in Commercial and European Union Law, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, 1994
Graduate Legal Research Scholar (“Kenkyusei”), Kobe University Faculty of Law, 1992-93
LL.B., Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, 1992
Chinese Law Summer Program, East China Institute of Politics and Law, Shanghai, PRC, 1990
Political Science Major, University of Western Ontario, 1987-89
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Full Professor, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, 2012 - present
Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, 2003 – present
Associate Professor, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Information Studies (cross appointment), 2009 – present
Associate Professor, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, 2002 – 2012
Technology Counsel, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, 2002 - 2004
Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, 1998-2002
Acting Director, Ontario Research Network for E-commerce (ORNEC), 2001 - 2002
Director of E-Commerce Law, Goodmans LLP, Toronto, 2000 – 2002
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Associate-in-Law, Columbia University, School of Law, 1996-98
Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University, Faculty of Law, 1995-96
Articling Associate, Goodman Phillips & Vineberg, Toronto, Ontario 1994-95
HONOURS AND AWARDS:
University of Ottawa Open Scholarship Award, 2016
SSHRC Connection Impact Award, 2013
Canadian Lawyer, 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada, 2013
Canadian Lawyer, 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada, 2012
Canadian Lawyer, 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada, 2011
Managing Intellectual Property, Top 50 Most Influential Intellectual Property Worldwide, 2011
Public Knowledge IP3 Award for Intellectual Property, 2010
Kroeger College Award for Policy Leadership, 2010
Managing Intellectual Property, Top 50 Most Influential Intellectual Property Worldwide, 2010
Les Fowlie Intellectual Freedom Award, Ontario Library Association, 2009
Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law (renewed), 2008
Electronic Frontier Foundation 2008 Pioneer Award, 2008
Rector’s Award for Service to the University through Media and Community Relations, 2003
Public Leadership Award, Canarie’s IWAY Awards, 2003
Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, 2003
Ontario Premier’s Excellence Award, 2003
Canada’s Top 40 Under 40, 2002
Canadian Association of Law Teachers 2002 Scholarly Paper Award, 2002
2 SCHOLARLY and PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Visiting Professorships
Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law, December 2016 – January 2017
Hong Kong University, Faculty of Law, May – June 2016
University of Haifa, Faculty of Law, December 2006 – January 2007
University Administrative Duties
Director, Centre for Technology, Law & Society, 2009 - 2016
Member, University Open Access Committee, 2010 - present
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Ontario Research Network for E-commerce, 2002 – 2007
Chair, Legal Cluster, Ontario Research Network for E-commerce, 2002 – 2007
Member, Website Committee, 2005 – present
Member, Hiring Committee, 2002 – 2005
Member, Law School Technology Steering Committee, 2000 - present
Member, Program Development, LL.M. Program in Law & Technology, 2000-01
Member, Program Development, Graduate Certificate in E-commerce, 1999 – present
Member, Program Development, M.Eng in Internet Technologies, 1999 – 2001
Member, University E-Society Working Group, 2000 - present
Chair, Orientation Committee, 2000
Member, Admissions Committee, 1998 – 2000
Member, Library Committee, 1998 - 2000
Member, JSD Tory Writing Prize Committee, 1999
Government Testimony, Delegations and Task Forces
3 International Trade Committee on E-commerce, October 2017
Industry, Science and Technology Committee on Anti-Spam Law, October 2017
Senate Open Caucus on NAFTA, October 2017
International Trade Committee on NAFTA, September 2017
Access to Information, Privacy & Ethics Committee on Airport Privacy, September 2017
Industry, Science and Technology Committee on Tech Transfer, June 2017
Access to Information, Privacy & Ethics Committee on PIPEDA, March 2017
Senate Committee on Banking, Trade & Commerce on Copyright Board, November 2016
Canadian Heritage Committee Hearings on Local Media, October 2016
Access to Information, Privacy & Ethics Committee on Privacy Act, September 2016
International Trade Committee on TPP, May 2016
Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade on TPP, March 2016
Industry Committee on Bill S-4, March 2015
Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs on Bill C-13, November 2014
Senate Transport and Communications Committee on Bill S-4, June 2014
Justice and Human Rights Committee on Bill C-13, May 2014
Industry Committee on Bill C-8 (Counterfeiting), November 2013
International Trade Committee on Trans Pacific Partnership, June 2013
Industry Committee on SME adoption of digital technologies, May 2013
Senate Committee on Banking, Trade & Commerce on Bill C-11, June 2012
Senate Committee on Transport and Communications on Telecom, June 2012
Access to Information, Privacy & Ethics Committee on social media, May 2012
European Parliament, Committee on International Trade, March 2012
Industry Committee on e-commerce, October 2011
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International Trade Committee on CETA, February 2011
Access to Information, Privacy & Ethics Committee on open government, February 2011
Bill C-32 Legislative Committee, December 2010
Federal Communications Commission Open Internet Workshop, April 2010
European Parliament Hearing on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, April 2010
House of Commons Canadian Heritage Committee Hearings on Digital Media, March 2010
Liberal Roundtable on Copyright and the Digital World, February 2010
House of Commons Industry Committee Hearings on Electronic Commerce Protection Act (C-27), June 2009
Senate Transport and Communications Committee on telecommunications, May 2009
House of Commons Ethics, Access to Information and Privacy Committee on Privacy Act, May 2008
Parliamentary Intellectual Property Caucus on copyright, May 2008
House of Commons Justice Committee on Identity Theft, April 2008
House of Commons Industry Committee Hearings on Counterfeiting, May 2007
House of Commons National Security Committee Hearings on Counterfeiting, April 2007
House of Commons Industry Committee Hearings on Telecommunications Reform, March 2007
Task Force Member, National Ministerial Task Force on Spam, 2004
E-commerce Advisor, Canadian Delegation, Hague Conference Draft Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments, 2001
Delegation Member, Canadian Delegation, UNCITRAL Working Group on Electronic Commerce, 2001
House of Commons Industry Committee Hearings on Bill C-54 (Electronic Commerce Privacy Legislation), 1999
International Legal Committees
Advisory Board Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2009 - present
5 Board member, Information Sub-Board, Open Society Institute, 2007 – 2014
Member, Library and Archives Canada CDIS Review Panel, 2007 - 2009
Advisory Board Member, Privacy Commissioner of Canada External Advisory Board, 2006 - 2013
Canadian Representative, Dot-Org Advisory Council, 2003 – 2006
Co-chair, Internet Jurisdiction Project, American Bar Association and International Chamber of Commerce, 2002 – 2005
Adviser, American Law Institute Project on International Intellectual Property, 2002 - present
Legal Expert Network, Carnegie Mellon Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society, 2001 - present
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), North American Membership Implementation Task Force Member, 2000
Dutch Special Commission on Fundamental Rights in the Digital era, International Review Board, 1999- 2000
American Bar Association Internet Jurisdiction Project, Sale of Services Working Group Chair, 1998–2000
Corporate and Academic Boards
Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), 2012 - present
Canadian Legal Information Institute, 2010 - 2016
CANARIE, 2010 - 2016
Primal Fusion, 2010 – 2014
Digital Journal, 2010 - present
Media Miser, 2006 – 2014
Iotum, 2005 - 2007
Quova, 2005 - 2006
Canadian IT Law Association, 2001 - 2005
Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), 2001 – 2006
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Verifia, 2001 - 2003
NetActive Inc., 2000 – 2001
CanadaMD.com, 2000 - 2001
Youtopia.com, 1999-2002
Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) Editorial Board, 1997-2000
Conferences Organized
Taking Stock of Technology : Reflections on Law, Technology, and Society, March 2010 (150 attendees)
Canada – Australia Comparative IP and Cyberlaw Conference, September 2005 (180 attendees)
The Internet and the Law: A Global Conversation, October 2004 (250 attendees)
Comparative IP and Cyberlaw Symposium, October 2003 (200 attendees)
Public Forum on the Draft Ontario Privacy Legislation, March 2002, (65 attendees)
Copyright Law in the Digital Age Public Forum, March 2001, (300 attendees)
2000 Domain Name Governance, Law, and Policy Forum, November 2000 (200 attendees)
Academic And Conference Legal Committees
Chair, Programming Committee, Ottawa Technology Lawyers Group, 2002- 2006
Member, OCRI 45th Circuit Advisory Board, 2000 – 2004
Advisory Member, Japan Law Online Working Group, Nagoya, Japan 1999-2002
Co-Editor, JURIST Canada: The Law Professors’ Portal, 1999-2001
Advisory Committee Member, Law Tech Plus Conference, 1998-99
International Program Committee Member, IASTED International Conference on Law & Technology 1999 & 2000
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Editorial Appointments
Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Law and Information Technology (Oxford), 2010 - present
Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Privacy Law Review (Butterworths), 2003 - present
Editor-in-Chief, Internet and E-commerce Law in Canada (Butterworths), 2000 – present
Editorial Board Member, Indian Journal of Law and Technology (India), 2004 - 2012
Technology Law Editor, Canadian Business Law Journal, 2001 - present
Editorial Board Member, E-Commerce and Law Report (BNA), 2000 - present
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Internet Law (Aspen), 2000 - present
Editorial Board Member, Internet Law and Business (Computer Law Reporter), 2000 - present
Editorial Board Member, Cyberspazio e Diritto - Cyberspace and Law (Italy), 2000 – present
Contributing Editor, Canadian Journal of International Business Law and Policy, 1996-98
Foreign Law Editor, Columbia Journal of Asian Law, 1996-97
Peer Review Activity
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant Committee, 2010
Canada Research Chair Interdisplinary Advisory Committee, 2006 - 2010
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
National Research Council of Canada
Major Canadian and Australian Law Reviews
PUBLICATIONS
Books authored:
Michael Geist, Internet Law in Canada, 3rd Edition, Captus Press, 2002 (925 pp.)
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Michael Geist, Internet Law in Canada, 2nd Edition, Captus Press, 2001 (876 pp.)
Michael Geist, Internet Law in Canada, Captus Press, 2000 (747 pp.)
Books edited:
Michael Geist, ed., Law, Privacy and Surveillance in Canada in the Post-Snowden Era, University of Ottawa Press, 2015 (298 pp.) refereed
Michael Geist, ed., The Copyright Pentalogy: How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law, University of Ottawa Press, 2013 (456 pp.), refereed
Michael Geist, ed., From “Radical Extremism” to “Balanced Copyright”: Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda, Irwin Law, 2010 (652 pp.), refereed
Michael Geist, ed., In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, Irwin Law, 2005 (602 pp.), refereed
Chapters in Books:
The Canadian Copyright Story: How Canada Improbably Became the World Leader on Users’ Rights in Copyright Law in Copyright Law in an Age of Limitations and Exceptions, (R. Okediji, ed.), (Cambridge Univ. Press), 169-205 (2017)
The Trouble with the TPP’s Copyright Rules, in The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Canada: A Citizen’s Guide, (S. Sinclair and S. Trew, eds.), (James Lorimer & Company Publishers, Toronto), 158-68 (2016)
The Emergence of Net Neutrality Regulation in Canada: How Canada Developed a Consensus Policy on One of the Internet’s Most Contentious Issues, in Direito & Internet III, Marco Civil Da Internet, De Lucca et al, eds., (Quartier Latin, Sao Paulo, Brasil), 641-686 (2015)
Why Watching the Watchers Isn’t Enough: Canadian Surveillance Law in the Post-Snowden Era, in Law, Privacy and Surveillance in Canada in the Post-Snowden Era, (M. Geist, ed.) (Ottawa, University of Ottawa Press), 225 – 55 (2015)
Slaying the ACTA Myths, in The ACTA and the Plurilateral Enforcement Agenda, (P. Roffe and X. Seuba, eds.) (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press), 345-56 (2015)
Fairness Found: How Canada Quietly Shifted from Fair Dealing to Fair Use, in The Copyright Pentalogy: How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law, (M. Geist, ed.) (Ottawa, University of Ottawa Press) 157-86 (2013)
Canada’s Digital Economy Strategy: An Openness Framework, in The Internet Tree : The State of
9 Telecom Policy in Canada 3.0 (M. Moll and L. Regan Shade, eds.) (Ottawa, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) 21-8 (2011)
The Case for Flexibility in Implementing the WIPO Internet Treaties: An Examination of the Anti- Circumvention Requirements, in From “Radical Extremism” to “Balanced Copyright”: Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda, (M. Geist, ed.) (Toronto, Irwin Law) 204-46 (2010), refereed
Developing Canada’s Intellectual Property Agenda (with Jeremy deBeer) in Canada Among Nations 2007, (J. Daudelin and D. Schwanen, eds.,) (Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press) 159-180 (2007)
Network Neutrality in Canada, in For Sale to the Highest Bidder: Canadian Telecom Policy in an Era of Deep Integration (Marita Moll and Leslie Regan Shade, eds.) (Ottawa, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)
Anti-Circumvention Legislation and Competition Policy: Defining a Canadian Way, in In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law (M. Geist ed.) (Toronto, Irwin Law) 211 – 250 (2005), refereed
National Governments and Country Code Top Level Domains: A Global Survey, in Internet Governance: A Grand Collaboration (D. MacLean, ed.) (New York, UN ICT Task Force) 282 – 90 (2004)
The Shift Toward “Targeting” For Internet Jurisdiction in Who Rules the Net? Essays on Internet Governance and Jurisdiction (A. Thierer and C. Wayne Crews Jr. eds.) (Washington, DC: Cato Institute) 91 - 118 (2003).
On Target? The Shifting Standards for Determining Internet Jurisdiction in Communications Policy and Information Technology: Promises, Problems, Prospects (L.F. Cranor and S. Greenstein, eds.)(Boston: MIT Press) 65 – 102 (2002).
Papers in refereed journals:
The Policy Battle over Information and Digital Policy Regulation: A Canadian Perspective, Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Volume 17(2), 415-49 (2016)
Why Less is More When It Comes to Internet Jurisdiction, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 60 (1), 26-8 (2016)
Canada's Usage Based Billing Controversy: How to Address the Wholesale and Retail Issues, Queen's Law Journal, Volume 37(1), 221-56 (2011)
The Trouble with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, 30, No. 2 SAIS Review of International Affairs 137-47 (2010)
Canada’s Digital Economy Strategy: Toward An Openness Framework, 8 Canadian Journal of Law
10 and Technology 277-98 (2010)
Looking at the Future of Canadian Copyright in the Rear View Mirror, Lex Electronica, Vol. 10, No. 3, Winter 2006
Outsourcing Our Privacy?: Privacy and Security in a Borderless Commercial World, co-authored with Milana Homsi, 54 UNB Law Journal 272 – 307 (2005)
Computer and E-Mail Workplace Surveillance in Canada: The Shift From Reasonable Expectation of Privacy to Reasonable Surveillance, 82 Canadian Bar Review 151-89 (2003)
Cyberlaw 2.0, 44 Boston College Law Review 323 – 58 (2003)
Fair.com? An Examination of the Allegations of Systemic Unfairness in the ICANN UDRP, 27 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 903-38 (2002)
Is There a There There: Towards Greater Certainty for Internet Jurisdiction, 16 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1345-1406 (2001)
When Dot-Coms Die: The E-commerce Challenge to Canada’s Bankruptcy Laws, 37 Canadian Business Law Journal 34 – 74 (2002)
Old Copyright Law And New Technologies: Canadian Copyright Reform In The Digital Age, Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 69-101 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press) (2001) iCraveTV and the New Rules of Internet Broadcasting, 23 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 223-42 (2000)
The Reality of Bytes: Regulating Economic Activity in the Age of the Internet, 73 Washington Law Review 521- 74 (1998)
Where Can You Go Today?: The Computerization of Legal Education from Workbooks to the Web, 11 Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 141- 83 (1997)
Balanced Budget Legislation: An Assessment of the Recent Canadian Experience, 29 Ottawa Law Review 1- 38 (1997)
Towards a General Agreement on the Regulation of Foreign Direct Investment, 26 Law and Policy in International Business 673 - 717(1995)
Foreign Direct Investment in Japan: A Guide to the Legal Framework, 9 Banking and Finance Law Review 305 – 57 (1994)
Papers in refereed conference proceedings:
11 ACTA’s State of Play: Looking Beyond Transparency, 26 American U. Int’l L. Rev. 543-558 (2011)
Papers in conference proceedings:
Our Own Creative Land: Cultural Monopoly and The Trouble With Copyright (The Hart House Lecture 2006), The Hart House Lecture Committee, 2006 (47 pp.)
All Rights Reserved? Cultural Monopoly and the Troubles With Copyright, 10 Marquette Intell. Prop. L.R. 411-31 (2006)
Copyright & Privacy – Through the Copyright Lens (Sarah Deutsch et. al) 4 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 212 (2005)
Copyright & Privacy – Through the Technology Lens (Michael Geist et. al.) 4 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 242 (2005)
Internet Jurisdiction Law in Canada, Science, Truth & Justice, Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice Annual Conference (2001)
Law on the Web: Tracing the Critical Role of Legal Education, Japan Online Law International Symposium, (1999)
Major invited contributions and/or technical reports:
How Trolls Are Stifling Innovators, Gamers, and Netflix Junkies, in New Thinking on Innovation, (Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, ON), 67-72 (2017)
Field of Dreams?: Public Participation in Canadian Digital Policy, 2014 Law Society of Upper Canada Communications Law Conference (2014) (31 pages)
The Trouble With ACTA: An Analysis of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, European Parliament, Committee on International Trade (2012) (21 pages)
Confronting the Social Media Challenge, International Telecommunications Union (2011) (25 pp.)
Copyright Consultation Submission, 2 Osgoode Hall Rev.L.Pol'y. 59 - 72 (2009).
The Case for Flexible Fair Dealing, Industry Canada Intellectual Property Policy Directorate, 2007 (48 pp.)
Building Confidence: Security, Privacy and User Empowerment, Industry Canada E-commerce Branch, 2007 (8 pp.)
12 Copyrighting Science: Canadian Copyright Reform and the Future of Scientific Research, Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee, 2005 (23 pp.)
Global Internet Jurisdiction: The ABA/ICC Survey, American Bar Association, Business Law Section, Cyberspace Law Committee, Internet Jurisdiction Subcomittee, 2004 (28 pp.)
Governments and ccTLDs: A Global Survey (Version Two) Survey conducted in cooperation with the International Telecommunications Union, 2004 (23 pp.)
Governments and ccTLDs: A Global Survey, Survey conducted in cooperation with the International Telecommunications Union, 2003 (22 pp.)
E-Legal Kit – Volume One (E-commerce Law), Volume Two (E-commerce contracting), and Volume Three (Case Studies), United Nations International Trade Centre, 2003 (180 pp.)
Computer And E-Mail Workplace Surveillance In Canada: The Shift From Reasonable Expectation Of Privacy To Reasonable Surveillance, Canadian Judicial Council, 2002 (54 pp.)
Is There a There There: Towards Greater Certainty for Internet Jurisdiction, Uniform Law Conference of Canada and Industry Canada, 2001 (64 pp.)
In Search of the Virtual Label: Canada’s Labeling Legal Framework and the Impact of E-commerce, Canada Competition Bureau, 2001 (26 pp.)
The Competitive Threat of Malicious Code: An Environmental Scan, Canada Competition Bureau, 2001 (18 pp.)
Survey of Canadian Law Firms E-commerce Best Practices: A 2001 Update, Industry Canada, 2001 (23 pp.)
Canadian E-commerce and Privacy Study 2000: A Failure to Communicate, 2000 (93 pp.)
Consultation on CIRA Draft ADR Policy: Report and Analysis, Canadian Internet Registration Authority, 2000 (17 pp.)
CIRA Consultation on Alternative Dispute Resolution: Report and Analysis, Canadian Internet Registration Authority, 2000 (22 pp.)
E-Commerce and Canada’s Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, Industry Canada, 2000 (38 pp.)
E-Commerce and Legal Services in Canada: Meeting the Challenge, Industry Canada, Service Industries & Capital Projects, 2000 (30 pp.)
Consumer Protection and Licensing Regimes Review: The Implications of Electronic Commerce, Ontario Ministry of Consumer & Commercial Relations, 1999 (21 pp.)
13 Workshop and conference presented:
The 2017 Canadian Copyright Review: Making the Case (Again) for Balanced Copyright, CAUT Council Plenary, Ottawa, ON, November 2017
NAFTA and the Digital Environment, CIGI Global Forum Lecture, Ottawa, ON, November 2017
Canadian Copyright and Open Education: What Links Fair Dealing, OA, and OER, eCampusOntario TESS 2017, Toronto, ON, November 2017
Keynote: The Dynamic Environment for Digital Privacy in Canada, 2017 CANARIE National Summit, Ottawa, ON, November 2017
Keynote: From Opportunity to Responsibility: Law and Privacy at the Intersection of Technology and Education, Bring IT Together 2017 Conference, Niagara Falls, ON, November 2017
Living Among Intelligent Machines, Derry Dialogues, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, November 2017
The Challenges of Open, FWD50 Conference, Ottawa, ON, November 2017
The Regulatory Forum, ISP Summit 2017, Toronto, ON, November 2017
NAFTA and the Digital Environment, American University, Washington College of Law Distinguished Lecture, Washington, DC, November 2017
What is Citizenship in a Digital Environment?, Connected Canada 150, Ottawa, ON, October 2017
The ATI-Privacy-Security Cycle: How Access to Information Helps Fuel the Canadian Privacy and Security Law Debate, 2017 Freedom of Information Police Network Conference, Ottawa, ON, October 2017
CBA Access to Information and Privacy Law Symposium: The Regulators Perspective, CBA Access to Information and Privacy Law Symposium, Ottawa, ON, October 2017
Keynote: Why the Open Access Road Still Leads Back to Copyright, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, October 2017
Copyright and Education in 2017, Summer Institute 2017, Ottawa, ON, August 2017
Keynote: More Voices: Shaping the Future of Law, Policy and Technology, BSDCan2017, Ottawa, ON, June 2017
The 2017 Canadian Copyright Review: Making the Case (Again) for Balanced Copyright, Canadian Federation of Students Annual Meeting, Ottawa, ON, June 2017
Competing With Open (Access), WIPO Workshop, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, May 2017
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Keynote: The 2017 Canadian Copyright Review: Making the Case (Again) for Balanced Copyright, CALL 2017 Annual Conference, Ottawa, May 2017
Canadian Copyright Reform, Creative Commons Global Summit 2017, Toronto, ON, April 2017
Back to the Future: How Everything Old is New Again in Canadian Security and Privacy Law, MISA Northeast Privacy and Information Management Symposium, Sudbury, ON, April 2017
Recent International Treaties and Impacts on IP Law, Ontario Bar Association, Toronto, ON, April 2017
Trade agreements and electronic commerce—the users' perspective, RightsCon 2017, Brussels, Belgium, March 2017
Towards a Priva-TiSA-tion of Human Rights?, RightsCon 2017, Brussels, Belgium, March 2017
Diffusing fair use - the global trend and what it means for Australia, ADA Copyright Forum 2017, Canberra, Australia, February 2017
Fair Use, Flexiblity, Innovation and Creativity, CAMLA Speaker Series, Sydney, Australia, February 2017
Fair Use and Copyright, InternetNZ Speaker Series, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, February 2017
The Impact of Flexibility: A Canadian Case Study, NZCIEL Innovation and Investment Lecture Series 2016-2017, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, February 2017
Fair Use For Education, ALIA Information Online 2017, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia, February 2017
The Sharing Economy and Trade Agreements: The Challenge to Domestic Regulation, University of Sherbrooke Sharing Economy Workshop, Montreal, QC, January 2017
The Sharing Economy and Trade Agreements: The Challenge to Domestic Regulation, Haifa University Working Paper Workshop, Haifa, Israel, January 2017
The Sharing Economy and Trade Agreements: The Challenge to Domestic Regulation, Tel Aviv University Working Paper Workshop, Tel Aviv, Israel, January 2017
Keynote: Tech Law at Internet Speed: Keeping Pace With Privacy & Security Issues, ALOC Annual Conference, Niagara, ON, November 2016
Keynote: Using Law Responsibly: What Happens When Law Meets Technology, Cybera Cyber Summit 2016, Banff, AB, October 2016
15 Cultural Policy for the Digital Age, University of Ottawa Speaker Series, Ottawa, ON, October 2016
The TPP, IP & Digital Policy, University of Ottawa Speaker Series, Ottawa, ON, October 2016
Back to the Future: How Everything Old is New Again in Canadian Security and Privacy Law, SECTOR 2016, Toronto, October 2016
Keynote: The Challenges of Open, AMCTO 2016 Municipal Information, Access and Privacy Forum, Toronto, October 2016
Is “Real Change” Coming to Canadian Copyright?, Ontario Library Association, Ottawa, June 2016
Beyond Brochures: Toward a Bold National Digital Strategy, Liberal Digital Caucus, Ottawa, June 2016
Canadian Privacy and Surveillance Law in the Post-Snowden Environment, Hong Kong Legislative Council Speaker Series, Hong Kong, June 2016
When Law Meets Technology: Embracing the IT Policy Challenge, Ryerson IT Conference 2016, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, May 2016
Commentator: Social Media and the Practice of Law, LSUC Communications Law Conference, Ottawa, ON, May 2016
Keynote: Why ‘Open by Default’ Must Go Beyond Open Data, Open Data Summit 2016, St. John’s, New Brunswick, April 2016
The TPP Free Trade Charade, Broadbent Institute Progress Summit 2016, Ottawa, ON, April 2016
Internet Jurisdiction Panelist, RightsCon 2016, San Francisco, CA, March 2016
Keynote: Tech Law at Internet Speed: Keeping Pace With Privacy, Security and IT Issues, CPA Canada Annual Security Conference, Toronto, ON, March 2016
Commentator, International and Comparative User Rights in the Digital Economy, American University, Washington College of Law, Washington, DC, March 2016
Now What?: Canadian Privacy and Surveillance Law in the Post-Snowden Environment, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, March 2016
Where Fools Rush In: New Frontiers in International IP Law, IP and Innovation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, CIGI, Toronto, ON, March 2016
16 The TPP, IP and Digital Policy, Workshop on the TPP, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, January 2016
Is Real Change Coming to Canadian Copyright?, CAA Ottawa Chapter, Ottawa, ON, January 2016
The TPP, IP and Digital Policy, Hill Times Conference on the TPP, Ottawa, ON, December 2015
Keynote: The Proliferation of IP Policy, Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest, National Law School of India, Delhi, Delhi, India, December 2015
What’s Wrong With Copying Symposium, University of Toronto, Toronto, November 2015
Canada and the TPP: A Digital Policy Failure, CIGI Speaker Series, Waterloo, ON, November 2015
Is Real Change Coming to Canadian Copyright?, CRKN Annual Meeting, Ottawa, ON, October 2015
What Open Government Hides, GTEC, Ottawa, ON, October 2015
Missing Voices: The Making of Canadian Security and Privacy Law, HTCIA Atlantic Conference, Halifax, NS, October 2015
Canadian Copyright Developments, AIPLA Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, October 2015
Legal and Privacy Track, Strata + Hadoop World, New York, NY, September 2015
Accountability as Duct Tape: A Canadian Perspective, Asia-Pacific Privacy Commissioner – HKU Privacy Conference, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, June 2015
The Policy Battle over Information and Digital Policy Regulation: A Canadian Perspective, The Constitution of Information: From Gutenberg to Snowden, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, May 2015
How Can Canadian Authors Thrive in a Digital World, Authors Alliance, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, May 2015
Communications Law and Jurisdiction, Rebooting Canada’s Communications Legislation, Centre on Governance and the Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) Conference, Ottawa, ON, May 2015
Why Watching the Watchers Isn’t Enough, Emerging Issues in Public Law, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, May 2015
Keynote: (Un)Intended Consequences: The Canadian Experience with Cyber-Bullying Laws, Women in the Net Conference, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, May 2015
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The Two Weeks That Changed Canadian Copyright, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Big Thinkers Panel, Toronto, ON, April 2015
A Conversation About Bill C-51, Anti-Terror and the Canadian State, Public Law Group Speaker Series, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, March 2015
Why Watching the Watchers Isn’t Enough: Canadian Privacy and Surveillance Law in the Post- Snowden Era, Perspectives on Privacy Conference, Privacy Commissioner of Canada, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, February 2015
Keynote: TPP and the Future of IP, Intellectual Property Conference, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru, February 2015
The Right to be Forgotten, Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities Conference, Vancouver, BC, December 2014
An Overview of Technology Law from the Perspective of Public Policy-Oriented Consumer Interest Research (PPOCIR), Consumer Interest Research Workshop, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, December 2014
What Open Government Hides, Open Data/Open Government, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, November 2014
Field of Dreams?: Public Participation in Canadian Digital Policy, Media Democracy Day 2014, Vancouver, BC, November 2014
CASL and Common Sense: Coming to Grips With Canada’s Anti-Spam Law, IABC Toronto Speaker Series, Toronto, ON, November 2014
Keynote Speaker - New Directions for Teaching and Technology in the Age of “Access Education”, LawWorks Annual Conference, OISE, Toronto, ON, November 2014
The Battle over Subscriber Disclosure, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario Speaker Series, Toronto, ON, November 2014
Canada’s Digital Economy Strategy, Canadian Internet Policy Forum, Ottawa, ON, October 2014
The Internet: Do We Really Have No Privacy and Should We Just Get Over It, Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs Speaker Series, Halifax, NS, October 2014
Keynote: The Open Access Tipping Point: Toward Openness as the Default, Queen’s University Open Access Week, Kingston, ON, October 2014
Surveillance, Privacy and Accountability, CCLA Rights Watch Conference 2014, Toronto, ON, September 2014
18 Notice the Difference: Canada’s Notice-and-Notice Rules, TPP Negotiators Forum, Ottawa, ON, July 2014
Copyright and the Modern Academic, Social Sciences and Humanities Congress 2014, Brock University, St. Catherine’s, ON, June 2014
Internet Privacy and Surveillance: Responding to Scott McNealy, Geek Girls Toronto, Toronto, ON, May 2014
What Battlestar Galactica Teaches About Internet Governance, ISOC-IL Open Forum, Tel Aviv, Israel, May 2014
Field of Dreams?: Public Participation in Canadian Digital Policy, Law Society of Upper Canada Communications Law Conference, Ottawa, ON, April 2014
Taking User Rights Seriously: Two Weeks that Changed Canadian Copyright, University of Hong Kong and University of Ottawa Law and Technology Symposium, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, April 2014
Keynote – New Directions for Teaching and Technology in the Age of ‘Access Education’, Technology in Education, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, March 2014
Keynote – Data, Privacy and Policy: Responding to Scott McNealy, Altsecon Conference, Halifax, NS, March 2014
Keynote - Cloud Computing in a Post-Snowden World: Do We Need a Canadian Cloud?, University of Ottawa Law Review Symposium, Ottawa, ON, February 2014
The Internet, Free Trade, and Transparency: An International Perspective, Trade and Transparency in the Internet Age, Yale University, New Haven, CT, February 2014
Why Watching the Watchers Isn’t Enough: Canadian Surveillance in a Post-Snowden Environment, ISACA, Ottawa, ON, December 2013
Keynote – The Two Weeks That Changed Canadian Copyright, 3rd Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, December 2013
Why Watching the Watchers Isn’t Enough: Canadian Surveillance in a Post-Snowden Environment, Technicity 2013, Toronto, ON, November 2013
The Case for Flexibility in Implementing the WIPO Internet Treaties: An Examination of the Anti- Circumvention Requirements, Asia-Pacific IP Forum, Renmin University of China, Suzhuo, China, November 2013
Whither Privacy Protection: A Scan of the Major Privacy Legislative Initiatives, Canadian Bar Association Privacy Committee, Alberta Chapter, Edmonton, AB, October 2013
19 Uniting Internet Freedom and Cyber-Security Through Information Governance, ARMA International Conference, Las Vegas, NV, October 2013
The Open Access Tipping Point: Toward Openness as the Default, Open Access Colloquim, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, October 2013
Fairness Found: How Canada Quietly Shifted From Fair Dealing to Fair Use, The Copyright Pentalogy: How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, October 2013
Is There Still a There There?, Media Governance or Media Freedom? Digital Regulation in the P2P and SNW Context, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, September 2013
The Benefits of Flexible Implementations of Copyright Laws at the National Level, Media Governance or Media Freedom? Digital Regulation in the P2P and SNW Context, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, September 2013
The Two Weeks That Changed Copyright in Canada…And What Comes Next, McGill University, Montreal, QC, September 2013
The Year the Internet Fought Back and the Free Flow of Information, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, August 2013
Keynote - The Two Weeks That Changed Copyright in Canada…And What Comes Next, ABC Copyright Conference, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, June 2013
Copyright Law and Practice Now, Insight Conference, Toronto, ON, December 2012
Is there Still a There There?, Pitblado Lectures 2012, Winnipeg, MB, November 2012
The Year the Internet Fought Back, IABC East Annual Meeting, Ottawa, ON, November 2012
The Year the Internet Fought Back, University of Saskatchewan Technology Week, Regina, SK, November 2012
Technology, the Law and the Future of Access, University of Saskatchewan Future of Law Conference, Regina, SK, November 2012
The Year the Internet Fought Back..and What it Means for Government Policy Making, Polivery 2012, Toronto, ON, October 2012
Coping with Copyright, Alberta Education Workshop, Edmonton, AB, October 2012
When Does Lawful Access Become Lawful Surveillance, SECTOR Conference 2012, Toronto, ON, October 2012
When the Internet Met Copyright, NXNEi 2012, Toronto, ON, June 2012
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Canada’s Copyright Forest, ABC Copyright Conference, Ottawa, ON, June 2012
The Year the Internet Fought Back, BCCLA Lecture Series, Vancouver, BC, June 2012
Facing Up to Facebook: The Government Challenges and Opportunities of Social Media, Information Management, Access and Privacy Symposium, Toronto, ON, May 2012
The Year the Internet Fought Back, Mesh Conference 2012, Toronto, ON, May 2012
Keynote: When the Internet Met Copyright, Manitoba Libraries Association Annual Meeting, Winnipeg, MB, May 2012
Keynote: When the Internet Met Copyright, B.C. Libraries Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, May 2012
Moving Forward on Copyright, NAIT Workshop, Edmonton, AB, May 2012
When Does Lawful Access Become Lawful Surveillance, Security Conference 2012, Toronto, ON, May 2012
Keeping it Global: Transnational Awareness and Organizing, Innovate/Activate 2.0, Berkeley, CA, April 2012
Why Social Media Matters, National Judicial Institute Conference, Gatineau, QC, April 2012
The Case for Flexibility in Implementing TPM Legal Protections, APEC Conference on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions, Santiago, Chile, April 2012
The Limitations and Exceptions Sandbox, APEC Conference on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions, Santiago, Chile, April 2012
Canada’s Copyright Forest, Carleton University, Culture and Ownership, The Past and Future of Intellectual Property, Ottawa, ON, March 2012
The Year the Internet Fought Back, Futures for Knowledge, Open Online Conference, March 2012
The Year the Internet Fought Back, Ottawa PC Users Forum, Ottawa, ON, March 2012
Countering Internet Fraud: Beyond Education, Competition Bureau Anti-Fraud Week, Ottawa, ON, March 2012
The Other Canadian Internet Forum, Canadian Internet Forum, Ottawa, ON, February 2012
Beyond SOPA, Keynote at Seminar on Copyright, Distance Learning & Open Access, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, FL, January 2012
21 Lawful Access and Privacy’s Field of Dreams, Friends of University of Haifa Speaker Series, Ottawa, ON, January 2012
Conference Co-Chair, Privacy and Information Security Congress 2011 The Future of the Internet: Opportunities & Challenges of Web 3.0, Ottawa, ON, November 2011
Regulatory Panel, Canadian ISP Conference, Toronto, ON, November 2011
When the Internet Met Copyright, Campus Stores Canada Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, November 2011
You Are Anonymous, McLuhan 100, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, November 2011
Whither WIPO: Will WIPO Wither?, 40th Annual Canadian Council on International Law Conference, Ottawa, ON, November 2011
Why Copyright Reform is not the Cure for What Ails the Music Industry, Nova Scotia Music Week Conference Keynote, Yarmouth, NS, November 2011
Facing up to Facebook: The Opportunities and Challenges of a Web 2.0 World, MISA 2011 Security Conference, Kingston, ON, October 2011
In the Public Interest: The Law and Ethics of Investigative Journalism, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, ON, October 2011
The Trouble with Digital Locks: Why the Future of Electronic Books is Open, 9th International Conference on the Book, Toronto, ON, October 2011
Canada’s National Digital Strategy: Hidden in Plain Sight, Cybera Summit 2011: Data for All, Banff, AB, October 2011
The Business Case for Greater Access to Information, 7th International Conference of Information Commissioners, Ottawa, ON, October 2011
Confronting the Social Media Challenge, ITU Global Industry Leaders Forum, Armenia, Colombia, September 2011
Privacy’s Field of Dreams, Privacy Commissioner Annual Conference, Quebec City, QC, September 2011
Copyright’s Pressure Points, Mesh Conference, Toronto, ON, May 2011
A Cautionary Tale on National Digitization Strategies, Law of the eBook Conference, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, May 2011
Platforms as Regulators, NYU School of Law Platforms and Power Roundtable, New York, NY, May 2011
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The Canadian Copyfight Story, 21st Annual Institute of Law Clerks of Ontario Conference, Ottawa, ON, May 2011
How to Vote for the Internet, Canadian Conference on IT Audit, Governance and Security, Toronto, ON, March 2011
The Canadian Copyright Myths, University of Toronto TIP Conference, Toronto, ON, March 2011
International Privacy 3.0, 23rd Annual International Law Institute, State Bar of Texas, Houston, TX, February 2011
Keynote Address – PIPEDA @ Ten, 12th Annual Privacy and Security Conference, Victoria, BC, February 2011
The Trouble With ACTA, 2011 Duke University School of Law Hot Topics in IP Symposium, Durham, NC, February 2011
The Trouble With ACTA, Stanford Law and Technology Association Speaker Series, Stanford, CA, January 2011
The Case For Flexibility in Implementing the WIPO Internet Treaties, Rights and Copyright: Bringing Canada into the 21st Century, Toronto, ON, December 2010
Privacy in the Clouds, CA Technologies Roundtable on Cloud Computing, Toronto, ON, December 2010
Privacy Law in Canada: Year in Review, 2010 National Administrative/Labour & Employment/Privacy & Access Law Conference, Ottawa, ON, November 2010
Art, Technology & Science Panel, Canada Research Chairs: Thinking Ahead for a Strong Future, Toronto, ON, November 2010
The Privacy Challenge, Privacy & Information Security Congress 2010, Ottawa, ON, November 2010
The Privacy Challenge: The Changing Legislative Landscape, PIPA Conference 2010, Calgary, AB, November 2010
IP vs. DP: Privacy and Copyright Enforcement, 32nd International Privacy and Data Protection Commissioner’s Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, October 2010
Facing Up to Facebook, Privacy in the Age of Facebook, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel, October 2010
Keynote: Open Access and the Canadian Copyfight, Open Access Forum, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, October 2010
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Keynote: The Copyright Divide, Access 2010, Winnipeg, MB, October 2010
The Case for Flexibility in Implementing the WIPO Internet Treaties, From “Radical Extremism” to “Balanced Copyright”: Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, October 2010
What’s Wrong with Bill C-32, Book Publishers Association of Alberta Annual Conference, September 2010
ACTA: Internet Provisions, ACTA Expert Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2010
ACTA: Institutional Provisions, ACTA Expert Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2010
The Canadian Copyfight Story: The Next Chapter, ABC Copyright Conference, Athabasca, AB, June 2010
Digital Networks, Digital Rights Roundtable, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, June 2010
ACTA’s State of Play: Beyond Transparency, IP Enforcement Workshop, Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, DC, June 2010
Keynote: The Canadian Copyfight Story: The Next Chapter, Canadian Library Association Annual Conference, Edmonton, AB, June 2010
The Canadian Copyfight Story: The Next Chapter, GRAND Annual Conference, Ottawa, ON, June 2010
Open Access and the Canadian Copyfight, The Age of Open Access, Social Sciences and Humanities Annual Congress, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, May 2010
The Canadian Copyfight Story: The Next Chapter, Canadian Federation of Students Annual Meeting, Ottawa, ON, May 2010
The Potential of Open Development for Canada and Abroad, International Development Research Centre Public Panel, Ottawa, ON, May 2010
The Truth About ACTA, ARL General Meeting, Seattle, WA, April 2010
Open Internet: International Perspectives, FCC Open Internet Workshop, Seattle, WA, April 2010
Keynote Address - Why Copyright?, Ministry of Justice IP Day, Gatineau, QC, April 2010
Privacy Technology and the Law: A Canadian Update, NZ Privacy Commissioner Speaker Series, Auckland, NZ, April 2010
Keynote Address - The Truth About ACTA, PublicACTA, Wellington, NZ, April 2010
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The Truth About ACTA, ALDE Hearing on ACTA, Brussels, Belgium, April 2010
Challenges in Open Government, Open Government Speaker Series, Ottawa ON, March 2010
Keynote address - Why Copyright?, CIPS Saskatchewan, Regina, SK, March 2010
Why Social Media Matters, Canadian Real Estate Association Annual Conference, Ottawa, ON, March 2010
Future of the Internet Workshop, MIT, Boston, MA, March 2010
Regulatory and Jurisdictional Issues, Emerging Law and Policy Issues in Cloud Computing, Berkeley Law School, Berkeley, CA, March 2010
Why Copyright?, Canadian Authors Association, Ottawa, ON, January 2010
The participative web: consumer-driven content in e-commerce, OECD Conference on Empowering E-consumers, Washington, DC, December 2009
Canada’s Digital Agenda, 6th Annual Canadian Telecommunications Forum, Ottawa, ON, December 2009
The Privacy Challenge, MISA Conference, Hamilton, ON, November 2009
The ACTA Threat, Beyond TRIPS: The Current Push for Greater International Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, DC, November 2009
Copyright Law Update, NCALL Speaker Series, Ottawa, ON, October 2009
Net Neutrality in Canada, 40th Annual IIC Conference, Montreal, QC, October 2009
Paris Accord II, Paris Accord Symposium, Paris, France, October 2009
The ACTA Threat, Third International Symposium on Achieving Balance in the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: Global Perspectives, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2009
Open Access 2.0, Ottawa Open Access Forum, Ottawa, ON, October 2009
The Future of Law Making, Pacific Legal Technology Conference, Vancouver, BC, October 2009
Why Copyright?, B.C. Civil Liberties Association Public Lecture, Vancouver, BC, October 2009
Digital Advocacy, Government Relations Institute of Canada, Ottawa, ON, September 2009
Toward a Canadian Digital Agenda, Digital Economy Roundtable, Ottawa, ON, June 2009
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The Great Debate, NextMedia Conference, Banff, AB, June 2009
A Civic-minded Digital Generation: Has technology tuned-out youth?, 2009 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ottawa, ON, May 2009
Why Copyright?, Summer Institute of Film and Television Keynote Address, Ottawa, ON, May 2009
Digital Advocacy, Ottawa E-Business Cluster, Ottawa, ON, May 2009
Net Neutrality in Canada, SavetheNet.ca Town Hall, Ottawa, ON, May 2009
Privacy 2.0, FOIPN Workshop, Ottawa, ON, April 2009
Why Copyright?, CASLIS Toronto, Toronto, ON, April 2009
Digital Advocacy, Toronto Association of Law Libraries, Toronto, ON, April 2009
Using Innovative Information Technology To Our Advantage, Health Canada Executive Conference, Ottawa, ON, April 2009
Why Copyright?, Perspectives Lecture Series, Red Deer College, Red Deer, AB, March 2009
Copyright Policy, Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Governance: The Next Four Years, Washington, DC, January 2009
Copyright and Connectivism, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, December 2008
Why Copyright?, McGill University, Montreal, QC, November 2008
Global Networks, Trudeau Foundation Annual Conference, Montreal, QC, November 2008
Why Copyright?, Robert A. Gordon Lecture Series, Humber College, Toronto, ON, November 2008
New Media: Perils of the Internet, Canadian Media Lawyers Association Annual Meeting, Ottawa, ON, November 2008
Why Copyright?, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, November 2008
Why Copyright?, Kiwanis Club, Ottawa, ON, October 2008
Privacy and Technology, CBA Privacy Section Lecture Series, Ottawa, ON, October 2008
Why Copyright? The Fight for Canada’s Digital Future, University of Alberta Scholarly Communication Series, Edmonton, AB, October 2008
26 Why Copyright?, B.C. Information Policy Conference, Vancouver, BC, October 2008
Digital Advocacy, University of California-Berkeley SIMS Lecture Series, Berkeley, CA, October 2008
IM for IT Professionals: Understanding the Implications of Emerging Technologies on Information Management, GTEC 2008, Ottawa, ON, October 2008
The Privacy Challenge, MISA Conference, Toronto, ON, September 2008
Why Copyright?, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, September 2008
The Global A2K Movement: History, Impact and Future, A2K3 Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2008
Moderator – OECD Future of the Internet Ministerial Conference, Privacy Panel, OECD Ministerial on the Future of the Internet Economy, Seoul, Korea, June 2008
Building Confidence: Security, Privacy and User Empowerment, 2008 International Conference on Information Culture, Seoul, Korea, June 2008
Digital Advocacy, Social Media and the Commodification of Community, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, May 2008
Keynote - Digital Advocacy, Mesh Conference, Toronto, ON, May 2008
Why Copyright?, Toronto Libraries Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, May 2008
Keynote - Why Copyright?, APLA Annual Conference, Charlottetown, PEI, May 2008
Canada’s Wireless Crisis, Spectrum 20/20, Ottawa, ON, May 2008
The Copyright Myths, Public Policy Forum on Copyright, Ottawa, ON, April 2008
E-Publishing and the Law, Canadian Journalism Foundation, Vancouver, BC, April 2008
Why Copyright?, Carleton University Library, Ottawa, ON, April 2008
Keynote Address - Hands on the Internet, Museums and the Web 2008, Montreal, QC, April 2008
Hands on the Internet, Canadian Bar Association Tech/IP Group, Calgary, AB, April 2008
Why Copyright?, University of Calgary Workshop on Copyright, Calgary, AB, April 2008
Facing Up To Facebook, Algonquin College Lecture Series, Ottawa, ON, March 2008
Why Copyright?, Osgoode Hall Law School PTTP Lecture Series, Toronto, ON, March 2008
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E-Publishing and the Law, Canadian Journalism Foundation, Toronto, ON, March 2008
Telecommunications Policy for the 21st Century, Library of Parliament Lecture Series, Ottawa, ON, February 2008
The Eight Most Important Policy Issues and the Internet, Government of Canada 2008 Policy Conference, Ottawa, ON, February 2008
Why Copyright?, Australian National University Lecture Series, Canberra, Australia, February 2008
Unlocking Access, University of Melbourne Information Futures Forum, Melbourne, Australia, February 2008
Keynote Address – Hands on the Internet, VALA 2008 Conference, Melbourne, Australia, February 2008
Hands on the Internet, Canadian Bar Association/Department of Justice Public Law Lecture Series, Ottawa, ON, January 2008
Facing Up To Facebook, CSIS Internal Security Program, Ottawa, ON, January 2008
Digital Rights in the Age of the Participatory Internet, University of Ottawa IT Fair, Ottawa, ON, January 2008
Why Copyright?, Federal Court Clerk Speaker Series, Ottawa, ON, January 2008
Unlocking Access, University of Ottawa Research Rounds, Ottawa, ON, January 2008
Why Copyright?, Canadian University Press Annual Conference, Ottawa, ON, January 2008
Copyright Choices and Voices, Canadian Federation of Students Annual Meeting, Gatineau, QC, November 2007
Human Rights and Neutrality on the Internet, Internet Governance Forum, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, November 2007
Openness Discussant, Internet Governance Forum, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, November 2007
Copyright Redefined, Canadian Association of Broadcasters Annual Meeting, Ottawa, ON, November 2007
ISurveillance, The Revealed I Conference, Ottawa, ON, October 2007
Canadian Content in a World of Abundance, Forum on Canadian Culture and Technology, Gatineau, QC, October 2007
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Lawful Access, 11th Annual It.Can Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, October 2007
The Internet and Mass Collaboration, The Banff Forum, Banff, AB, October 2007
Unlocking Access, University of Ottawa Open Access Public Forum, Ottawa, ON, October 2007
New Media, New Doctrines, Unfinished Business, 8th International Conference on Law via the Internet, Montreal, QC, October 2007
The Case For Net Neutrality in Canada, OBA Educational Institute, Ottawa, ON, October 2007
Closing Commentator, OECD Forum on the Participative Web, Ottawa, ON, October 2007
Keynote Speaker, Canada Roundtable on the Future of the Internet Economy, Ottawa, ON, October 2007
Canadian Content Online, CRTC Invitational New Media Forum, Ottawa, ON, October 2007
Closing Speaker, 29th International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioner’s Conference, Montreal, QC, September 2007
Keynote Address - Open Access: Necessary But Not Sufficient, PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference, Vancouver, BC, July 2007
Copyright Panel, 2007 Canadian Authors Association National Conference, Ottawa, ON, July 2007
Law and Policy for a Web 2.0 World, ISSA Annual General Meeting, Ottawa, ON, June 2007
The Future of Internet Law, ISACA Annual General Meeting, Ottawa, ON, June 2007
Unlawful Content and Illegal Activities: Policies and Practices, 2007 Canadian Telecom Summit, Toronto, ON, June 2007
A Hands-On Approach to the Internet, 7th Annual Think Link Conference, Waterloo, ON, May 2007
The Canadian Copy-Fight, Ottawa Computer Users Group, Ottawa, ON, May 2007
The Future of the Internet, Computers, Freedom & Privacy 2007, Montreal, QC, May 2007
Network Neutrality, Telecommunications and Broadcasting Insight Conference, Ottawa, ON, April 2007
A2RK, Access to Knowledge Two, Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 2007
Law and Policy for the Participatory Internet, ICT Standards Advisory Council of Canada Annual Meeting, Ottawa, ON, March 2007
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The Case Against Canadian Anti-Circumvention Legislation, Musical Myopia, Digital Dystopia, New Media and Copyright Reform, McGill University, Montreal, QC, March 2007
Yours, Mine and Ours: The Digital Rights Debate, Canadian Music Week 2007, Toronto, ON, March 2007
Law and Policy for the Participatory Internet, Workshop on the Virtual Consumer, Ottawa, ON, February 2007
Net Neutrality, Net Neutrality Public Forum, Ottawa, ON, February 2007
Security, Privacy and Access: The Next Stage, MISA Program, Kingston, ON, January 2007
Legal Limits of IP, Cross Border Legal Challenges in High Tech Law, Santa Clara University School of Law, San Jose, CA, January 2007
The Case for Fair Use in Canada, Canadian Heritage Copyright Policy Branch Lecture Series, Ottawa, ON, January 2007
New Creativity and the Internet, Government Living Leadership Program, Gatineau, Quebec, January 2007
Law and Policy for the Participatory Internet, OECD/NSF Roundtable on the Future of the Internet, Washington, DC, January 2007
Our Own Creative Land, University of Haifa Faculty Lecture Series, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, January 2007
Search Engines and Unintended Consequences, The Law of Search Engines, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, December 2006
The Importance of Digital Information and 21st Century Access to Canada’s Future, Toward a Canadian Digital Information Strategy: National Summit, Montebello, QC, December 2006
Network Neutrality, RABC 2020 Summit, Ottawa, ON, November 2006
The DGC and Copyright: Be Careful What You Wish For…, Directors Guild of Canada Annual Directors Meeting, Toronto, ON, November 2006
IP and Development, Edge Network First Annual Conference, Ottawa, ON, November 2006
The Canadian Copy-Fight: Copyright, Culture, and the Internet, CapCHI Speaker Series, Ottawa, ON, November 2006
New Creativity and the Internet, Government of Canada Communicators Conference 2006, Ottawa, ON, November 2006
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Canada’s Choice: Copyright and the Internet, HTCIA Ottawa Speaker Series, Ottawa, ON, November 2006
Privacy Law: The Road Ahead, OBA First Annual Privacy Law Summit, Toronto, ON, November 2006
User Generated Content: What Does it Mean for Consumers and Marketers?, Federal Trade Commission Tech-Ade Hearings, Washington, DC, November 2006
Copyright and Control in the Digital Age, Controlling Intellectual Property: The Academic Community and the Future of Knowledge, Ottawa, ON, October 2006
The Legal and Policy Implications of New Technologies on Information Management, Managing Information in the Public Sector, Edmonton, AB, October 2006
Privacy and the Workplace, IAPP Privacy Academy 2006, Toronto, ON, October 2006
Security, Privacy and Access: Creating a Balance, MISA Symposium, Toronto, ON, October 2006
Format Wars: Digital Rights Management and Interoperability, Future of Music Conference 2006, Montreal, QC, October 2006
CopyCamp Plenary, CopyCamp, Toronto, ON, September 2006
Monitoring in the Workplace, ACCA Annual Meeting, Ottawa, ON, September 2006
Hate on the Internet, 3rd International Hate on the Internet Summit, Toronto, ON, September 2006
All Rights Reserved? Cultural Monopoly, the Internet and the Trouble with Copyright, VI World Computer Law Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 2006
National and International Dimensions of Commons, Unlocking IP, Sydney, Australia, July 2006
Our Digital Future: Copyright, Culture, and the Internet, Canadian Library Association Annual Meeting, Ottawa, ON, June 2006
Copyright Conundrums, Copyright in Libraries: The Digital Conundrum, Ottawa, ON, June 2006
Copyright and Creativity in International Scholarship, Association of Research Libraries Members Meeting, Ottawa, ON, May 2006
Spyware Legislation Solutions, Anti-Spyware Coalition Public Workshop, Ottawa, ON, May 2006
Copyright and Social Networks, Mesh Conference 2006, Toronto, ON, May 2006
31 Copyright/CopyLeft: New Directions in Copyright, PWAC Annual Conference, Ottawa, ON, May 2006
Cyberlaw of Contracts, NJI Civil Law Seminar, Halifax, NS, May 2006
VoIP Regulation in North America, Information Tech Law Association Annual Summit, San Francisco, CA, May 2006
Net Neutrality, Telecommunications Invitational Forum, Cambridge, ON, May 2006
Internet Connectivity in Canada: A Public-Private Model, Educause 2006, Washington, DC, April 2006
The Global Spam Battle: Taking Stock, APECTel Spam Symposium, Calgary, AB, April 2006
The Two-Tier Internet, Access to Knowledge Conference, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, April 2006
The Good News Story, IDRC Lecture Series, Ottawa, ON, April 2006
All Rights Reserved? Cultural Monopoly and the Trouble With Copyright, Ninth Annual Hon. Helen Wilson Nies Memorial Lecture, Marquette Law School, Milwaukee, WI, April 2006
Our Own Creative Land, Annual Hart House Lecture, University of Toronto, Toronto, March 2006
Canada’s Choice: Copyright, Culture and the Internet, Queen’s Law School, Kingston, ON, March 2006
Toward a Digital Millennium Culture Act for Canada, University of Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review Symposium, 21st Century Copyright law in the Digital Domain, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2006
Neutral Networks and Neutral Content, Canada Competition Bureau Enforcement Branch, Ottawa, ON, March 2006
Privacy: A Look Ahead, Alberta Law Review Annual Banquet, Edmonton, AB, February 2006
Rapporteur – The Future of the Digital Economy, OECD Conference on the Future of the Digital Economy, Rome, Italy, January 2006
Neutral Networks and Neutral Content, Canada Competition Bureau E-commerce Sector Day, Ottawa, ON, January 2006
Broadband Internet and the New Regulatory Paradigm, IIC Canada Annual Conference, Ottawa, ON, December 2005
32 P2P and Canadian Law, World Summit on the Information Society, IP Justice Workshop, Tunis, Tunisia, November 2005
Internet 1995 or 2005: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, University of Victoria IP Law Conference, November 2005
Canada’s Choice: Copyright, Culture and the Internet, UBC Lecture Series, Vancouver, BC, November 2005
Should Canadian Law Protect the Technologies that Protect Copyright? A Debate, It.Can Annual Conference, Montreal, QC, October 2005
Looking at the Future of Copyright in the Rear View Mirror, Bill C-60 and Copyright Reform in Canada, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, ON, October 2005
Privacy and the Internet, OACCPP Annual Meeting, Niagara, ON, October 2005
Canada’s Choice: Copyright, Culture and the Internet, Access 2005, Edmonton, AB, October 2005
Keynote Address – Privacy, Technology and Compliance: The Next Stage, Netspeed 2005, Edmonton, AB, October 2005
O’Canada, Future of Music Summit, Washington, DC, September 2005
There’s Something Happening Here, Canadian Bar Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, August 2005
IP vs. IP3, Canadian Bar Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, August 2005
E-commerce Year in Review, Ontario Bar Association Year-End Dinner, Toronto, ON, June 2005
Music, the Law and the Net: A Canadian Perspective, Computer Law Association Annual Summit, Washington, DC, May 2005
The Electronic Contract: A Canadian Perspective, The Emerging Law of Electronic and Internet Transactions, Shanghai, China, April 2005
Personal Jurisdiction and the Internet: The Emerging Framework, Cyberlaw: Emerging Trends and Future Directions, Beijing, China, April 2005
Here and There: Unpacking the Complexity of Internet Jurisdiction, Spyware: The Latest Cyber- Regulatory Challenge, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, Berkeley, CA, April 2005
Canadian Copyright Law, Fordham Annual Conference on International Intellectual Property Law & Policy, New York, NY, March 2005
33 Canada’s Choice: Copyright, Culture and the Internet, University of Montreal Speaker Series, Montreal, QC, March 2005
Data Sharing: Risks, Issues and Realities, IAPP National Summit, Washington, DC, March 2005
Keynote Address: Canada’s Choice: Copyright, Culture and the Internet, Sound Bytes, Sound Rights: Canada at the Crossroads of Copyright Law, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, February 2005
Copyright and the Internet: Is There A Canadian Way?, KDMI Open Access Lecture Series, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, February 2005
The View From Here: How Will Technology, the Internet and Security Concerns Impact Privacy?, Council of Chief Privacy Officers, Ottawa, ON, February 2005
Copyright & Privacy: Through the Technology/Copyright Lens, Piracy v. Privacy, John Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL, November 2004
Internet Law Update, Ottawa Technology Lawyers Group, Ottawa, ON, November 2004
Untouchable? A Canadian Perspective on the Anti-Spam Battle, International Conference on the Legal Aspects of an E-commerce Transaction, The Hague, The Netherlands, October 2004
Untouchable? A Canadian Perspective on the Anti-Spam Battle, IT.Can Annual Conference, Calgary, AB, October 2004
Keynote Address – Unhappy Gilmore: The Internet’s Six Layers of Liability, Society for the Policing of Cyberspace Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, October 2004
Unhappy Gilmore: The Internet’s Six Layers of Liability, The Internet and the Law: A Global Conversation, Ottawa, ON, September 2004
Trust, Privacy and Security, E-commerce to the E-economy: Strategies for the 21st Century, Ottawa, ON, September 2004
Internet Jurisdiction, UNESCAP Conference on Regional Harmonization of Electronic Commerce, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2004
Keynote Address - Privacy and Expectations, ARUCC Annual Meeting, Ottawa, ON, June 2004
Comparative Domain Name Dispute Resolution, ABA IP Section Summer Conference, Toronto, ON, June 2004
Canadian Privacy Law, IAPP Privacy Futures Conference, San Francisco, CA, June 2004
Internet Jurisdiction, ICC Commercial Law and Practice Spring Meeting, Rome, Italy, May 2004
34 (Re)Thinking Copyright, ALAI Rethinking Copyright Conference, Ottawa, ON, May 2004
Privacy and Expectations, Canadian Access and Privacy Association Annual Meeting, Ottawa, ON, May 2004
Sparring With Spam, Law Society of Upper Canada, New Developments in Communications Law, Ottawa, ON, April 2004
Beyond ICANN: International Governance of the Internet in the 21st Century, ABA International Law Section Spring Meeting, New York, NY, April 2004
Chair, Internet Jurisdiction: A Global Survey, ABA Business Law Section Spring Meeting, Seattle, WA, April 2004
Rapporteur, UN ICT Task Force Internet Governance Workshop, New York, NY, March 2004
Unhappy Gilmore: The Internet’s Six Layers of Liability, University of Manitoba, Faculty of Law, Winnipeg, MB, March 2004
Panelist, From Wireless to iPod, Canadian Music Week 2004, Toronto, ON, March 2004
Governments and ccTLDs: A Survey of National Governments and Internet Governance, ITU Internet Governance Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland, March 2004
PIPEDA: Canada’s New Privacy Law, 4th Annual IAPP Privacy and Security Summit, Washington, DC, February 2004
Major Privacy Law Challenges for 2004 and Beyond, Living With the New Private Sector Privacy Law: What You Need To Know, Ottawa, ON, February 2004
Selling and Marketing Online – Emerging Legal Issues, Toronto Computer Lawyers Group, Toronto, ON, February 2004
Keynote Address – Privacy and Expectations, University of New Brunswick, Faculty of Law, Law Week, Fredericton, NB, February 2004
Moderator, ID Theft: Canada’s Legal Framework, ORNEC’s ID Theft Workshop, Ottawa, ON, February 2004
Unhappy Gilmore: The Internet’s Six Layers of Liability, Torys Technology Law Speaker Series, Ottawa, ON, February 2004
Chair, Law and Regulatory Panel, OECD Spam Summit, Brussels, Belgium, February 2004
Panelist, Canadian Copyright – Legislative Reform, Canadian Association of Broadcasters Annual Meeting, Quebec City, QC, November 2003
35 Keynote Address – Privacy and Expectations, 4th Annual Privacy and Security Workshop, Toronto, ON, November 2003
Who is Watching You? The What, Why & How of Tracking Employees, IAPP Privacy Academy, Chicago, IL, October 2003
Current Issues and Key Initiatives: The Privacy Perspective, Privacy, Security, & Trust Workshop, Montreal, QC, October 2003
Organizer, University of Ottawa Comparative IP and Cyberlaw Symposium, Toronto, ON, October 2003
Keynote Address – Privacy and Expectations, Access and Privacy Workshop 2003, Toronto, ON, October 2003
Internet Law Update, Ottawa Technology Lawyers Group, Ottawa, ON, October 2003
Speech, Choice & Cyberspace, American Library Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, June 2003
Panelist, Expert Spam Workshop, Internet Law and Policy Forum, Ottawa, ON, June 2003
E-Borders, Internet and IT Technologies, United States Department of Commerce Commercial Law Development Program, Washington, DC, June 2003
Cyberlaw 2.0, Internet Marketing Conference, Montreal, QC, May 2003
Moderator, Canadian IT Law Association Spring Training II, Toronto, ON, May 2003
Cyberlaw 2.0, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, April 2003
Cyberlaw 2.0, National Law School of India, Bangalore, India, March 2003
Legal Issues in E-commerce Law, Bangalore, India, March 2003
Legal Issues in E-commerce Law, Mumbai, India, March 2003 ccTLDs and Transnational Policymaking, Cardozo Law School, New York, NY, March 2003
Keynote Address - ccTLD Governance Project, International Telecommunications Union Workshop on Member States and ccTLDs, Geneva, Switzerland, March 2003
Cyberlaw 2.0, Canadian Bar Association – BC Chapter, Computer Law Section, Vancouver, BC, February 2003
Watching Your Employees: Emerging Personal Boundaries in the Workplace, 3rd Annual Data Privacy and Security Summit, Washington, DC, February 2003
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Computer And E-Mail Workplace Surveillance In Canada: The Shift From Reasonable Expectation Of Privacy To Reasonable Surveillance, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, February 2003
Moderator, The World of Cybertaxes, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Toronto, ON, January 2003
Cyberlaw 2.0, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Toronto, ON, January 2003
Cyberlaw 2.0, Torys Technology Law Tuesday Speaker Series, University of Ottawa, Common Law Section, Ottawa, ON, January 2003
Recent Developments of the Domain Name Dispute Resolution System in Canada, OCRI/CATA Intellectual Property Management –The Strategic Landscape, Ottawa, ON, January 2003
Internet and E-commerce Law Update, Ottawa Technology Lawyers Group, Ottawa, ON, November 2002
Panelist, Recent U.S. Legal Developments Roundtable, 4th Georgetown University Advanced E- commerce Law Institute, Washington, DC, November 2002
Digital Copyright: A Look Ahead, Nikkei Digital Core Speaker Series, Tokyo, Japan, November 2002
Recent Developments of the Domain Name Dispute Resolution System in Canada, Recent Developments of Domain Name Dispute Resolution in Canada and Korea, Seoul, Korea, November 2002
Computer And E-Mail Workplace Surveillance In Canada: The Shift From Reasonable Expectation Of Privacy To Reasonable Surveillance, Yukon Bar and Bench Day, Whitehorse, Yukon, October 2002
Panelist, Primer on Privacy Compliance for the Private Sector, Privacy Trends: Complying with New Demands, Ottawa, ON, October 2002
Cyberlaw 2.0, Boston College Symposium on Intellectual Property, E-Commerce and the Internet, Boston, MA, October 2002
Creating a Trusted Environment: Legal Challenges, Partnering for E-business, Toronto, ON, October 2002
Computer And E-Mail Workplace Surveillance In Canada: The Shift From Reasonable Expectation Of Privacy To Reasonable Surveillance, Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice Dialogues About Justice: The Public, Legislators, Courts and the Media, Hull, Quebec, October 2002
Internet Law Update, 6th Annual IT.Can Association Conference, Ottawa, ON, October 2002
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Computer Surveillance of the Judiciary, 4th International Conference on Law via the Internet, Montreal, PQ, October 2002
Canada.com: In Search of a Canadian Internet Law Policy, Saskatchewan Law Review Lecture, University of Saskatchewan College of Law, Saskatoon, SK, September 2002
Watching Employees: Legal Considerations, Practical Guidelines and Netiquette, ILPF Security v. Privacy Conference, Seattle, WA, September 2002
Hot Internet IP Issues Around the World, ABA Summer IPL Conference, Philadelphia, PA, June 2002
Extra-Territoriality and the Internet, INET 2002 Conference, Washington, DC, June 2002
Cyberlaw 2.0, OBA E-commerce Section Year-End Dinner, Toronto, June 2002
Cyberlaw 2.0, OCRI’s 45th Circuit, Ottawa, June 2002
Keynote Address: Jurisdiction, Advocates’ Society Lawyers and the Internet, Ottawa, May 2002
E-commerce in a World Without Borders, CALT 2002 Annual Conference, Toronto, May 2002
E-commerce Legislation Update, IT.Can Law Association Spring Training Conference, Vancouver, May 2002
Internet Law Panel, LSUC Communications Law Conference, Ottawa, April 2002
Computer And E-Mail Workplace Surveillance In Canada: The Shift From Reasonable Expectation Of Privacy To Reasonable Surveillance, Canadian Judicial Council, Ottawa, March 2002
Discussant, Impact of IT for E-Banking, The Information Technology Revolution: Policy Implications for Financial Services, Schulich School of Business, Toronto, March 2002
Fair.com? An Examination of the Allegations of Systemic Unfairness in the ICANN UDRP, International Telecoms Laws Post De-Regulatory Landscape, Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, NY, March 2002
Internet Content Liability, Internet Law and Policy Forum International Workshop on Content- related Issues: Policy/Legal Frameworks and Solutions, Tokyo, Japan, February 2002
The Cyberlaw Rules: How the Internet is Transforming Law, Canadian Centre for Management Development's Armchair Series, Ottawa, February 2002
Technological Change and Legal Response in E-commerce, Information Technology and Legal Regulation: Promise and Pitfalls, Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, February 2002
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Copyright and Censorship, Censorship and Privacy: Civil Liberties in a Digital Age, University of Toronto, Toronto, January 2002
Chair, Intellectual Property Summit Protecting, Enforcing And Exploiting Your IP Rights In The Global Marketplace, Toronto, January 2002
Keynote Address - Domain Names: A New Frontier for Disputes, Advocates’ Society Litigation Meets the Internet, Toronto, January 2002
Intermediary Liability in the Online Environment: Public Issues, Internet Law and Policy Forum Workshop, Brussels, Belgium, December 2001
Copyright and Trade Issues, Centre For Trade Policy and Law Trade and Culture Conference, Ottawa, November 2001
Internet Jurisdiction Following Yahoo.com, BNA Public Policy Forum, Washington, DC, November 2001
Internet Jurisdiction, Georgetown University Advanced E-commerce Institute, Washington, DC, November 2001
Internet Law Update, County of Carleton Law Association Litigation Update, Montebello, Quebec, November 2001
Canadian Copyright Reform, Canadian Association of Broadcasters Annual Meeting, Ottawa, October 2001
Internet Jurisdiction, Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) 2001, Alexandria, Virginia, October 2001
Internet Jurisdiction, European E-commerce Legal Information Platform (ECLIP) E-contract Conference, Brussels, Belgium, October 2001
Keynote Address – Internet Jurisdiction, Internet Law Insight Conference, Toronto, September 2001
Internet Jurisdiction, Uniform Law Conference of Canada Annual Meeting, Toronto, August 2001
What, Me Worry? Privacy, Liability and Other Online Legal Issues in the Information Age, Canadian Bar Association Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, August 2001
Policies for the New Economy: Legal Framework, Government of Canada Policy Research Branch, Montreal, June 2001
Is There a There There? Towards Greater Certainty for Internet Jurisdiction, Internet Society INET 2001, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2001
39 The Internet and Jurisdiction, EPIC Policy Briefing: Emerging Cyberspace Issues, Washington, D.C., June 2001
Panelist, The Impact of a Global Internet on Copyright, Canadian Institute of International Affairs Meeting, Toronto, May 2001
Discussant, Canada’s Intellectual Property Framework: A Comparative Overview, International Conference on Intellectual Property and Innovation in the Knowledge Based Economy, Toronto, May 2001
Is There a There There? Towards Greater Certainty for Internet Jurisdiction, Toronto Computer Lawyers Group, Toronto, May 2001
Internet Jurisdiction Update, National Judicial Institute Intellectual Property Seminar, Ottawa, May 2001
Is There a There There? Towards Greater Certainty of Internet Jurisdiction, IT.Can Law Association Spring Training Conference, Toronto, April 2001
The Cyberlaw Rules: How the Internet is Transforming Law, Ryerson CWC/CTV Women’s Career Accelerator, Toronto, April 2001
Keynote Speaker – Is There a There There? Towards Greater Certainty for Internet Jurisdiction, University of Washington School of Law - Beyond the Information Superhighway: Searching for the Next Policy Metaphor, Seattle, Washington, April 2001
Is There a There There? Towards Greater Certainty for Internet Jurisdiction, Consumer Measures Committee/Uniform Law Conference of Canada Workshop on Consumer Protection and Jurisdiction in Electronic Commerce, Toronto, April 2001
Conference Chair and Organizer, Canadian Copyright Law in the Digital Age Forum, Ottawa, March 2001
International E-commerce Law Update, Joint Open Forum on Standardization Enablement in Electronic Commerce, Ottawa, March 2001
Legal Education.com, National Judicial Institute’s Technology-Based Distance Learning and the Judiciary Conference, Ottawa, February 2001
Legal Issues Panelist, OECD Conference Building Trust in the Online Environment: Business to Consumer Dispute Resolution, The Hague, Netherlands, December 2000
CEO Panel Moderator, Marketing Online Conference, Toronto, December 2000
Conference Chair, 2000 Domain Name Governance, Law & Policy Forum, Ottawa, November 2000
Copyright in the Balance: Old Laws and New Technologies, Royal Society of Canada Annual Symposium, Ottawa, November 2000
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Copyright Law Moderator, BNA Internet and E-commerce Law Public Policy Forum, Washington, DC, November 2000
E-commerce Regulatory Update, 4th Annual Canadian IT Law Conference, Halifax, October 2000
Internet Jurisdiction Law in Canada, Science, Truth & Justice, Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice Annual Conference, Victoria, October 2000
Domain Name Dispute Resolution in Canada, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada AGM, Vancouver, September 2000
ICANN’s Domain Name Dispute Resolution Process, Internet Law and Policy Forum Jurisdiction II: Global Networks, Local Rules, San Francisco, California, September 2000
E-commerce and Web for Canadian Lawyers, Canadian Bar Association Annual Meeting, Halifax, August 2000
Sale of Services and Internet Jurisdiction, Internet Jurisdiction Law Plenary, American Bar Association Annual Meeting, London, England, July 2000
E-Business: The Future, Comdex Canada, Toronto, July 2000
The Cyberlaw Rules, Kiwanis Club of Ottawa, Ottawa, July 2000
E-commerce Law Moderator, Third International Workshop on the Technological Challenges of E- commerce, Waterloo, June 2000
What It Means When You Click I Agree, Net 2000 Conference, Ottawa, June 2000
Legaleducation.com, 10th Annual CALI Conference, Chicago, Illinois, June 2000
Canadian E-commerce Law and Policy: Facing the Future Challenge Today, Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement Three Years Later: Lessons and Challenges for the 21st Century, Ottawa, May 2000 iCraveTV and the New Rules of Internet Broadcasting, Media Law and Ethics Enter the 21st Century, Little Rock, Arkansas, April 2000
Internet Jurisdiction Update, University of Montreal Technology Law Forum, Montreal, April 2000
The Media and Privacy: Friend, Foe or Folly, Computers, Freedom & Privacy Conference 2000, Toronto, April 2000
What It Means When You Click I Agree, E-Commerce Canada 6th Annual Symposium, Ottawa, February 2000
Online Dispute Resolution and Internet Jurisdiction, National Capital Association of Communications
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What It Means When You Click I Agree, Legal Challenges of the Internet, University of Toronto, January 2000
Consumer Protection and Licensing Regimes Review: The Implications of Electronic Commerce, Ontario Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations E-Commerce Roundtable, Toronto, December 1999
Keeping Pace With Internet Jurisdiction Issues, Compliance Guide to Online Financial Transactions, Strategy Institute, Toronto, October 1999
The Internet and International Law, ILSA 5th Annual Conference, Ottawa, September 1999
Sale of Services and Internet Jurisdiction: A Telemedicine Case Study, Internet Law and Policy Forum (ILPF) International Conference, Montreal, July 1999
Reality Testing: Legal Solutions to Hate on the Net, Second International Symposium on Hate on the Internet, Toronto, March 1999
Law on the Web: Tracing the Critical Role of Legal Education, Japan Online Law International Symposium, Nagoya & Kyoto, Japan, March 1999
Finding Information in a Sea of Knowledge,1999 Law Tech Plus, Ottawa, February 1999
Hate Speech on the Internet, 1999 CJLSA National Conference, Ottawa, January 1999
Using Web Lectures in the Classroom, 1998 CALI Conference - Preparing for the Road Ahead, Chicago, Illinois, June 1998 and 1998 SEAALS Conference, Marco Island, Florida, July 1998
Canadian Media Opinion Pieces (Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, Globe & Mail)
Globe and Mail
Canada and the U.S. Go in Separate Directions on Net Neutrality (Nov 22/17)
No Deal is Better than a Bad Deal: Why Canada Won the TPP By Standing Up for Balanced IP, Culture, and the Auto Sector (Nov 10/17)
Like Buckley’s for Business: Canada’s Anti-Spam Law May Taste Bad, but It Works (Oct 27/17)
Life After NAFTA: Why No Deal May Free Canada on IP Policy (Oct 19/17)
How Melanie Joly Can Build an Effective Digital Cancon Strategy on the Cheap (Sept 26/17)
Why Clicking I Agree May No Longer Mean You Agree to Everything (June 26/17)
42 Ottawa Was Right to Unplug the Notion of a Tax on the Internet (June 15/17)
Why Canada Needs a Strong Anti-Spam Law Now More than Ever (May 29/17)
Why Copyright Law Poses a Barrier to Canadian AI Ambitions (May 17/17)
Canada’s Analog Broadcasting Policy Makes no Sense in a Digital World (Apr 18/17)
Why Warrantless Access to Internet Information is Back on the Lawmaking Agenda (Apr 3/17)
What Would a Digital Economy Era NAFTA Mean for Canadians? (Mar 21/17)
Canada is Now Home to Some of the Toughest Anti-Piracy Rules in the World (Mar 3/17)
If Ottawa is Serious About Innovation, It Needs to Fix the Mobile Market (Feb 20/17)
Did a Canadian Court Just Establish a Right to be Forgotten (Feb 6/17)
The Trouble for Canadian Digital Policy in an “America First’ World (Jan 24/17)
Why a Media Coalition is Decrying a CRTC Ruling on Super Bowl Feeds (Jan 10/17)
CRTC’s Internet Edict Falls Short of a Disruptive Overhaul (Dec 23/16)
How the Supreme Court Can Avoid Turning the Web Into a Wild West (Dec 13/16)
Melanie Joly’s Tough Choice on Canadian Content: New Thinking or New Rules (Nov 30/16)
In Ottawa, TPP’s Death Could Open Door to Transparent Trade Dealing (Nov 13/16)
CRTC Should Update Rules on Differential Pricing (Oct 31/16)
The Devil’s in CETA Details, Specifically on Dispute Settlement (Oct 25/16)
New Digital Taxes May Be the Future of Cancon (Oct 12/16)
How Ottawa Revived Canada’s Most Controversial Privacy Issue (Oct 5/16)
Toronto Star (and many Ottawa Citizen or Hill Times)
Ottawa Needs to Combat Abuse of Intellectual Property Rights (Aug 15/16)
Piracy a Big Issue in Copyright Law Review (Aug 8/16)
User Consent in Need of an Upgrade (Aug 1/16)
43 Canada’s Digital Shelves Are Strangely Empty (July 25/16)
Privacy a Price Web Pay When Games Blend Virtual, Reality (July 18/16)
History Shows CETA Isn’t an Easy Deal (July 11/16)
‘Zero Rating’ Battle Throws Net Neutrality in Doubt (July 4/16)
Voltage Case Could Erode Our Privacy on the Web (June 27/16)
Set-Top Box Crackdown Will Chill Innovation (June 20/16)
Ottawa Should Disclose Its Surveillance Practices (June 13/16)
Australia, Canada Share Dismal Innovation Record (June 6/16)
Telecom Transparency Guidelines Need Clarity (May 30/16)
Time for TPP’s ‘Plan B’ (May 23/16)
Rejecting Bell’s Broadband Fight Sends a Clear Signal (May 16/16)
Forget a Netflix Tax, Here’s How to Shake Up Canada’s Culture (May 9/16)
Digital CanCon Fight Could End Up New Whine in Old Bottles (May 2/16)
The Case For Greater Web Access (April 25/16)
Copyright Law for the Blind Requires Fine Tuning (April 18/16)
Universal Internet Program a Positive Step (April 11/16)
Ontario Music Fund Oversight Hits A Sour Note (April 4/16)
Canada Needs to Keep Next Billion Dollar Start Up at Home (Mar 28/16)
When it Comes to the TPP, US Demands Could Trump Canadian Desires (Mar 21/16)
Copyright Ruling Strikes Fair Balance In Heated Education Fight (Mar 14/16)
Skinny TV Packages Jump Start Competition (Mar 7/16) iPhone War Shines Light on Right To Privacy (Feb 29/16)
Secrecy Around $30M Ontario Music Fund Strikes Wrong Notes (Feb 22/16)
Broadband Battle Breeds Civic Discord (Feb 15/16)
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The Demise of Journalism is Greatly Exaggerated (Feb 8/16)
Canada Is About to Sign the Pacific Trade Deal. What Next? (Feb 1/16)
Why Your Telecom Must Defend Your Right to Privacy (Jan 25/16)
Why Canada Could Get Caught in A Global Privacy Battle (Jan 18/16)
Why Mayor John Tory is Against Competition for Access (Jan 11/16)
How 2016 Will Shape Canadian Tech Policy (Jan 4/16)
Ashley Madison to Zero Rating: A 2015 A to Z (Dec 28/15)
Sky High Drug Costs Have Nowhere To Go But Up (Dec 21/15)
How To Defuse the Battle With Uber (Dec 14/15)
U.S. Netflix May Find Itself on Ottawa’s Hit List (Dec 7/15)
Quebec’s Online Gambling Law Threatens Canada’s Open Internet (Nov 30/15)
Paris Attacks Put Canada’s Internet Privacy Laws at Risk (Nov 23/15)
TPP Is Bad News For Digital Copyright, Privacy (Nov 16/15)
Let’s Loosen Canada’s Digital Copyright Rules (Nov 9/15)
Don’t Expect Liberals to Undo CRTC Reforms (Nov 2/15)
Privacy, Telecom Among Trudeau’s Priorities (Oct 26/15)
How Harper Lost His Pro-Internet Approach (Oct 19/15)
How the TPP May Put Your Health Care Data At Risk (Oct 13/15)
CBC Shoots Itself in the Foot With Election Coverage (Oct 5/15)
Universal, Affordable Broadband Should be an Election Issue (Sept 28/15)
The Dancing Baby Video That Changed Copyright Law (Sept 21/15)
Internet Privacy Hangs in the Balance (Sept 12/15)
Public Domain Label Takes Aim At Music Industry (Sept 5/15)
45 BC Court Upholds Competitive Google Keywords (Aug 29/15)
Senate Reports Hints at Future Digital Policies (Aug 22/15)
How Canada Caved in TPP Trade Talks (Aug 15/15)
CRTC Needs Stricter Penalties For ISPs (Aug 8/15)
Digital Issues Deserve Election Spotlight (Aug 1/15)
CRTC Drafts Blueprint for Fair Internet Access (July 25/15)
Trade Pact Could Affect Health Costs, Privacy (July 18/15)
The Public Should Come First (July 11/15)
Telecom Transparency Rules Fail To Satisfy (July 4/15)
Blocking Online Gambling is a Slippery Slope (June 27/15)
Many Canadian TV Channels May Be on the Chopping Block (June 20/15)
Budget Bill Will Transform Privacy In Canada (June 13/15)
Netflix Access Rules Not the Same As Law (June 6/15) Reasons for Caution on Trans Pacific Trade Pact (May 30/15) You Are On Your Own for Online Privacy Protection (May 23/15) Canada’s Goals for Broadband Access Lagging (May 16/15) CRTC Falls Short on True Wireless Competition (May 9/15) Behind the Recording Industry’s Latest Campaign (May 2/15) Ottawa Out of Tune With Shifting Terms of Music Copyright (April 25/15) Action Needed on Film Industry Tax Incentives (April 18/15) Opt-Out Approach Doesn’t Cut It For Privacy (April 11/15) Government Treated Bill C-51 Hearings as Theatre (April 4/15) Canada Shows Its Anti-Spam Law Has Teeth (Mar 28/15) Ruling Reins in Real Threat: TV Giants (Mar 21/15) Privacy Protection Under Threat by Bill C-51 (Mar 14/15) Behind Ontario’s Push for Netflix Tax (Mar 7/15)
46 RCMP Data Inaccurate, Memo Finds (Feb 28/15) New Era in Canadian Broadcasting Will Follow Sun News Demise (Feb 21/15) Bell is Not Respecting Its Customers’ Privacy (Feb 14/15) Surveillance Bill Needs Careful Review (Feb 7/15) Slow Clap for CRTC’s Net Neutrality Stance (Jan 31/15) Taxman Wants to Level the Digital Playing Field (Jan 24/15) Are You Breaking the Law By Streaming Online (Jan 17/15) Copyright Notice Loopholes Need to be Closed (Jan 10/15) A Chance to Hit Reset Button on Digital Policies (Jan 3/15) A Look Back at the Technology Law Battles of 2014 (Dec 27/14) New Internet Copyright Rules to Launch (Dec 20/14) New Law Doesn’t Settle Issues Over Internet Access (Dec 13/14) CRTC Can’t See the Forest for the Trees (Dec 6/14) Open Government Notable for What it Hides (Nov 29/14) Popular App Takes Privacy for a Ride (Nov 22/14) The Importance of Online Anonymity (Nov 15/14) Fourth Wireless Player Would Push Prices Down (Nov 8/14) Good News, Bad News on our Privacy Protection (Nov 1/14) The Perils of Quick-Fix Anti-Terrorism Measures (Oct 25/14) How Business Chilled Patent Troll Reform (Oct 18/14) Political Speech and Copyright Law Don’t Mix (Oct 11/14) Behind the Wireless Sector’s ‘Trust Us’ Mantra (Oct 4/14) A Fight Regulator Can’t Win (Sept 27/14) Ottawa Reckless in Mining Subscriber Data (Sept 20/14) CRTC Hearing Becomes the Netflix Show (Sept 13/14) Broadcast Regulator Catching Up to Reality (Sept 6/14) Counterfeit Law May Be Shaped by US Concerns (Aug 30/14) What’s a ‘Reasonable Expectation’ of Privacy? (Aug 23/14) 47 Made in Canada Copyright Rules Win Over EU (Aug 16/14) Can Anyone Own a National Domain? (Aug 9/14) Eli Lilly Patent Lawsuit May Have Costly Implication (Aug 2/14) Recording Industry Critique of Online Royalties Off-Key (July 26/14) It’s Up to Ottawa to Protect Canadians’ Privacy (July 19/14) Future of Broadcasting in the CRTC’s Hands (July 12/14) TPP Remains Largely Hidden From Public View (July 5/14) Anti-Spam Law Delivers Shock to the System (June 28/14) Finding the Right Balance on Online Regulation (June 21/14) Canada Hasn’t Signed Copyright Treaty for the Blind (June 14/14) Breach Shows Holes in Digital Privacy Act (June 7/14) Privacy Suffers from Poor Political Will (May 31/14) CBC Missing Out on the Broadcast Revolution (May 24/14) ‘Right to be Forgotten’ Ruling Lacks Balance (May 17/14) Net Neutrality Battle Unlikely to Upload Here (May 10/14) Five Measures to Counter Telecom Disclosures (May 3/14) Is the CRTC Ready to Hit the Reset Button on Television Regulation in Canada? (Apr 26/14) Canadian Government Buries Massive Trademark Overhaul in Budget Implementation Bill (Apr 19/14) Why the Government’s New Digital Privacy Act Puts Your Privacy at Risk (Apr 12/14) Digital Canada 150: The Digital Strategy Without a Strategy (Apr 5/14) How Telcos and ISPs Hand Over Subscriber Data Thousands of Times Each Year Without a Warrant (Mar 29/14) Why the U.S. Government Isn’t Really Relinquishing its Power Over Internet Governance (Mar 22/14) The Web We Want: Could Canada Lead on a Digital Bill of Rights? (Mar 15/14) If U.S. Cloud Computing Isn’t Good Enough for the Canadian Government, Why Should it Be For You (Mar 8/14) The Future of Television Consultation Omits the Big Question: Do We Still Need the CRTC? (Mar 1/14) 48 Downloading Decision: Federal Court Establishes New Safeguards on Disclosures in File Sharing Lawsuits (Feb 22/14) Canadian Digital Strategy Takes Shape with 2014 Budget (Feb 15/14) Canadian Media Production and Music Groups Calls for New Rules for Netflix, Google (Feb 8/14) Competition Bureau Raises Concerns Over Canadian Wireless Market (Feb 1/14) Why Canada’s Telecom Companies Should Come Clean About Customer Information (Jan 25/14) Canadian Regulators Place Google’s Business Model Under Microscope (Jan 18/14) ISPs Push for Two-Tier Internet Based on Data Caps (Jan 11/14) Why CSEC and CSIS Should be Subject of an Independent Investigation (Jan 4/14) Technology and the Law in 2014: 14 Questions in Need of Answers (Dec 28/13) The Letters of the Law: The Year in Tech Law and Policy (Dec 21/13) The Case for Cancelling Canada’s Simultaneous Substitution Rules (Dec 14/13) What Will Canada’s Anti-Spam Law Mean for Users? (Dec 7/13) The Federal Government’s Complete E-Government Failure (Nov 30/13) Lawful Access Returns Under the Cover of Cyberbullying Bill (Nov 23/13) Leaked TPP Text Confirms Countries Had Plenty to Hide (Nov 16/13) New Risks Emerge as Anti-Counterfeiting Bill Placed on the Legislative Fast Track (Nov 9/13) Statscan Data Points to Canada’s Growing Digital Divide (Nov 2/13) Is Bell’s Plan to Monitor and Profile Canadians Legal? (Oct 26/13) Canada May Nearing Open Access ‘Tipping Point’ (Oct 19/13) The Great Canadian Personal Data Grab (Oct 12/13) Canadian Government Quietly Pursuing New ISP Code of Conduct (Oct 5/13) The Untold Story Behind the LAC-Canadiana Digitization Plan (Sept 27/13) How the Government Can Put Digital Consumers First (Sept 20/13) Canada Complicit in Undermining Internet Privacy (Sept 14/13) Regulated Wireless Roaming Fees May be on the Way (Sept 7/13) Canadian Universities Navigate Learning Curve for New Copyright Rules (Aug 31/13) Time for Canadian Privacy Regulators to Take Action on Pervasive Surveillance (Aug 24/13)
49 Does in Matter Where Your Data Lives? (Aug 17/13) CRTC Ruling a Small Step Toward Broadcast Overhaul (Aug 10/13) Getting Signals Straight in the Great Wireless War (Aug 3/13) Secret Surveillance Puts Internet Governance System at Risk (July 27/13) Moore’s Mission: Put Canada’s Digital Economy Back on Track (July 20/13) The ‘Miracle in Marrakesh’ Provides New Path for Digital Access (July 13/13) Verizon Entry to Canada Could Spark Shift Toward Single North American Communications Market (July 6/13) Celebrating the Canadian Digital Policy Success Stories (June 29/13) Is the Government About to Can Its Own Anti-Spam Law (June 22/13) Canadian Surveillance Laws Can’t Handle Modern Day Snooping (June 15/13) Will Canada Stand Up for the Rights of the Visually Impaired? (June 8/13) Can Canada’s Failed Wireless Policy Be Saved? (June 1/13) Canada’s Lack of Innovation an Emerging Crisis (May 25/13) Time to Clean Up the Mess at the Copyright Board (May 18/13) Why Creators and Consumers Should Welcome the ‘Netflix Threat’ (May 11/113) Canadian Government Establishes Two-Tier Approach for Trade Talks (May 4/13) Your Information Is Not Secure in Ottawa (Apr 27/13) CRTC Should Force Broadcasters to Compete (Apr 20/13) Deep Divisions Surface in Canada’s Wireless Industry (Apr 13/13) Canada’s Digital Divide Likely to Widen (Apr 6/13) Quebec Court Says No to eBay’s Online Contract (Mar 30/13) Policy Laundering Lies Behind Ottawa’s Support for Trade Treaties (Mar 24/13) Fight for Wireless Competition Not Over Yet (Mar 17/13) What’s Really Behind Ottawa’s Anti-Counterfeiting Bill (Mar 10/13) Lights, Camera, Kickstarter: How Internet Crowdfunding is Changing the Way Movies are Funded (Mar 3/13) Internet Surveillance Bill is Dead But Canada’s Telecom Transparency Gap is Alive and Well (Feb 24/13)
50 One Phone Call is not Enough: Court Rules You Have the Right to Google a Lawyer (Feb 17/13) Businesses Think Anti-Spam Law Should Protect Them, Not Consumers (Feb 10/13) CRTC Should be Bolder With Wireless Code (Feb 3/13) CRTC Should Put Consumers First and Drop ‘Must Carry’ Requirements (Jan 27/13) Swartz’s Death Places Spotlight on More Open Access to Information (Jan 20/13) Government Caves to Lobbying Pressure on Anti-Spam Legislation (Jan 13/13) Courts Adopt Aggressive Approach in Cross-Border Internet Jurisdiction Cases (Jan 6/13) Crystal Ball Gazing at the Year Ahead in Tech Law and Policy (Dec 30/12) Letters of the Law: The Year in Tech Law and Policy (Dec 23/12) The Tax-Free Six Step Approach to a Digital Economy Strategy (Dec 16/12) Secrecy the Standard as Canada Enters Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks (Dec 9/12) File Sharing Lawsuits Could Lead to Clogged Courts as Canadians Rely on New Liability Caps (Dec 2/12) UN Internet Meeting About Who Pays, Not Who Rules (Nov 25/12) Supreme Court Serves Stunning Reminder of the Patent Bargain (Nov 18/12) What the New Copyright Law Means For You (Nov 11/12) How Canadians Reclaimed the Public Interest on Digital Policy (Nov 4/12) Supreme Court Confirms Privacy Rights Survive in the Workplace (Oct 28/12) CRTC Pushes Bill of Rights for Consumers (Oct 22/12) Make No Mistake, This is a New CRTC (Oct 21/12) Internet Governance World Meets in Toronto Amid New Domains Controversy (Oct 14/12) Random Government Takedown Demands Point to Need for Policy (Oct 7/12) Privacy Commissioner Should Name “Leaky” Websites (Sept 30/12) Copyright Lobby Demands Rollback of Recent Canadian Reforms in Secretive Trade Deal (Sept 23/12) Setting the Stage for the Next Decade of Open Access (Sept 16/12) CRTC Places Consumers and Access at the Top of its Priority List (Sept 9/12) Putting Some Substance into Canada’s Digital Economy Penske File (Sept 2/12)
51 How to Address Canadian Media Convergence if Bell – Astral is Approved (August 26/12) Public Safety Shuffle Could Allow for Internet Surveillance Restart (August 19/12) Billions at Stake if Canada Caves on Drug Patent Demands (August 12/12) Is the Competition Bureau Ready to Take on Media Convergence? (August 5/12) Prime Minister’s Privacy Policy Requires a Re-Write (July 29/12) CRTC’s Message to Broadcasters: Regulatory Games Coming to an End (July 22/12) Supreme Court Shakes the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law (July 15/12) Canada – European Trade Deal At Risk Due to Controversial Copyright Rules (July 8/12) All the News That’s Fit to Post and Link: Federal Court Clears Up Legal Risks (July 1/12) What’s Behind Canada’s Entry to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks (June 24/12) Internet Domain Name Land Grab More Than Just ‘Fools Gold’ (June 17/12) UN Internet Takeover Rumours Mask Bigger Governance Shortcomings (June 10/12) Seeking Solutions to the Mounting Social Media Privacy Concerns (June 3/12) Conclusion of Copyright Debate Leaves Many Ifs… (May 27/12) How Canada’s Telecom Companies Have Secretly Supported Internet Surveillance Legislation (May 20/12) The Future of Education Is Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed (May 13/12)
Isn’t There a Better Way to Spend $750 Million? (May 6/12)
Canada's Domain Name Agency to the Public: We Don’t Trust You (Apr 29/12)
Other People’s Money: Why AUCC Signed the Most Expensive Copyright Insurance Policy in Cdn History (Apr 22/12)
Cutting Community Internet Access Program Highlights Absence of Digital Strategy (Apr 15/12)
Should Canadians have to pay for TV channels they don’t want? (Apr 8/12)
The Results are In: Online Voting Still Too Risky (Apr 1/12)
Reading the Tech Tea Leaves in the Fine Print of the Budget (Mar 25/12)
Ottawa Picks Bland Over Bold on Telecom Policy (Mar 18/12)
Copyright Bill Hits the Home Stretch (Mar 11/12) 52
All Your Internets Belong To US, Continued (Mar 4/12)
Lawful Access Sends Signal Canada Is Open for Big Brother Inc. Business (Feb 26/12)
Searching for Compromise on Online Surveillance (Feb 19/12)
How the CRTC Helped to Put An End to Internet Throttling (Feb 13/12)
Could SOPA Make Its Way Into Canadian Copyright Law? (Feb 6/12)
Keeping Score of Canada’s Spectrum Auction (Jan 30/12)
The Day the Internet Fought Back (Jan 23/12)
Why My Website Went Dark Yesterday (Jan 19/12)
Crafting Copyright Policy to Create a Competitive Advantage (Jan 16/12)
Are Canada's Digital Laws Unconstitutional? (Jan 9/12)
Crystal Ball Gazing at the Year Ahead in Tech Law and Policy (Jan 2/12)
The Letters of the Law: The Year in Tech Law from A to Z (Dec 19/11)
Vic Toews' Lawful Access Deception (Dec 12/11)
Copyright in the Balance This Week at the Supreme Court of Canada (Dec 5/11)
Digital Economy Strategy Has Become Government's "Penske File" (Nov 29/11)
The CRTC’s Declaration of Independent ISP Independence (Nov 22/11)
All Your Internets Belong to U.S. (Nov 15/11)
Net Neutrality Enforcement Put to the Test (Nov 7/11)
Anti-Spam Law In Limbo As Lobby Groups Seek New Exceptions (Oct 30/11)
Supreme Court Stands Up for the Internet (Oct 23/11)
Is the Government’s Open Initiative Now Closed? (Oct 16/11)
Why Are Consumers Missing from the CRTC's Online Video Ruling? (Oct 9/11)
Why Canada's New Copyright Bill Remains Flawed (Oct 2/11)
53 Public Debate on Lawful Access Misses Real Concerns (Sept 26/11)
Hurt Locker File Sharing Lawsuits Put the Hurt on Everyone (Sept 19/11)
Digital Issues Largely Missing From Ontario Election Campaign (Sept 13/11)
Uncertainty abounds as digital TV transition deadline arrives (Aug 27/11)
RIM’s woes partly based in Canadian telecom policy (Aug 20/11)
Telecoms lure ex-ministers into boardrooms (Aug 13/11)
New rules for domain disputes (Aug 6/11)
Court grapples with legalities of anonymous online postings (July 30/11)
Canadian universities switch to tech savvy course alternatives (July 23/11)
Competitive conditions prompt Web data-cap debate (July 16/11)
Lots of complaints but few consequences (July 9/11)
Why competition holds the key to a broken broadcast system (July 2/11)
CRTC Caving into Industry Pressure (June 24/11)
Is Internet connectivity a human right? (June 17/11)
Forecast iffy for music cloud services in Canada (June 10/11)
EU/big pharma deal would raise health care costs (June 3/11)
What Harper's ministers should be doing digitally (May 29/11)
Can Canadian Broadcasters Compete With Free? (May 21/11)
Web Surveillance Legislation Requires Study, Not Speed (May 15/11)
Tory Majority Gives Ottawa A Crack At Breaking The Digital Logjam (May 8/11)
Apple, Sony security slips show flaws in our laws (May 1/11)
Federal party platforms all offer surprises on digital policy (Apr 24/11)
'Playbook' Tax Means Apple Wins (Apr 19/11)
There's No Liberal iPod Tax, But Here's the Tory One (Apr 17/11)
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The Boxing Day Shopper Who Upended Privacy Laws (Apr 10/11)
U.S. web-streamed TV could change game for Canadian broadcasters (Apr 3/11)
Now’s our chance to ask candidates about Internet policy (Mar 27/11)
Canadian Backed Report Says Piracy a Market Failure, Not Legal One (Mar 20/11)
Governments' ominous thirst to control the web (Mar 13/11)
Content Rules, Not Canadian Ownership, Protect Our Culture (Mar 6/11)
U.S. digital project signals the rise of versatile e-textbooks (Feb 27/11)
What to do with the Newly Surplus TV Airwaves (Feb 20/11)
Is the Best Copyright Law the Old One? (Feb 13/11)
The Real Reason We Pay So Much For Internet (Feb 6/11)
Clearing up the Confusion over the Caps (Feb 4/11)
Monster Merger Threatens New Uses of Web (Jan 30/11)
Empower Privacy Watchdogs to Enforce Laws, Name Offenders (Jan 23/11)
Ottawa AWOL but Others Busy Digitizing Canada's Heritage (Jan 16/11)
Supreme Court Will Lead Tech Law in 2011 (Jan 9/11)
The Letters of the Law: 2010 in Tech Law from A to Z (Dec 28/10)
Canadian Education Faces Technology Tipping Point (Dec 19/10)
Location Matters Up in the Cloud (Dec 5/10)
Canadian Courts Set High Bar for Privacy Damage Awards (Nov 28/10)
Separating Copyright Facts from Fiction Ahead of Legislative Hearings (Nov 21/10)
Lawful Access Bills Would Reshape Internet in Canada (Nov 15/10)
Consumers Face Barriers in Taking Advantage of Wireless Competition (Nov 7/10)
Facing up to the generational privacy divide (Oct 31/10)
55 Laying bare the divide over future of book industry (Oct 24/10)
Digital advocacy’s ‘weak ties’ should not be underestimated (Oct 17/10)
Why are U.S. net services slow to migrate north? (Oct 10/10)
U.S. uses domain names as new way to regulate the Net (Sep 27/10)
Media mergers the latest stab at ‘walled garden’ strategy (Sep 20/10)
Significant new costs loom for students (Sep 13/10)
Competition concerns drive CRTC Internet provider policy (Sep 5/10)
Conrad Black case targets Net defamation standards (Aug 29/10)
Telecom complaints commissioner remains a relative unknown (Aug 9/10)
U.S. move to pick digital locks leaves Canadians locked out (Aug 2/10)
Digital TV transition could lead to new divide (Jul 26/10)
Why Parma ham stands in way of trade talks (Jul 19/10)
Court: Internet providers aren't broadcasters (Jul 12/10)
‘Geo-blocking’ websites is a business rather than legal issue (Jul 5/10)
Developing world opposition mounts to anti-counterfeiting agreement (June 28/10)
Unlocked iPhones could herald true mobility (June 21/10)
Opening up Canada’s digital economy strategy (June 14/10)
Judge rules Google’s keywords belong to top bidders (June 7/10)
Long-awaited copyright reform plan flawed but flexible (June 3/10)
Security breach disclosure bill has bark but no bite (May 31/10)
An unofficial user’s guide to the coming copyright bill (May 24/10)
Who's going to lead our digital strategy? (May 17/10)
Software piracy charges against us unfair (May 10/10)
CRTC of old re-emerges in music station case (May 3/10)
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Privacy takes big step towards global enforcement (Apr 26/10)
Open government moving in parallel but opposite directions (Apr 19/10)
Talks on secret anti-counterfeiting treaty spring a leak (Apr 12/10)
State Farm challenges Canada's privacy law in court (Apr 5/10)
Broadcast policy gives the web a wide berth (Mar 29/10)
MP shakes up copyright landscape (Mar 22/10)
Book-sales rules about competition, not culture (Mar 15/10)
Hackers, viruses threaten online voting validity (Mar 8/10)
10 years of policy neglect reflected in digital rankings (Mar 1/10)
Technology giants defend Canada's copyright law (Feb 22/10)
ISPs fall short on Net neutrality rules (Feb 15/10)
Dell warranty ruling victory for consumers (Feb 8/10)
National Film Board unreels online smash hits (Feb 1/10)
Three strikes and you’re out system draws cries of foul from governments (Jan 25/10)
Critics misjudged the power of digital advocacy (Jan 18/10)
Ottawa pulls its own Internet hoax (Jan 11/10)
The 10 players who will shape technology law (Jan 4/10)
Technology gives the law a workout in 2009 (Dec 28/09)
EU demands in free trade talks would retool our copyright laws (Dec 21/09)
Canada dragging its feet on open data initiatives (Dec 14/09)
Record industry faces liability over 'infringement' (Dec 7/09)
Will web child-porn bill do more harm than good? (Nov 30/09)
Broadcasters want more than fee for carriage (Nov 23/09)
57 Telco ownership rules from bygone era (Nov 16/09)
Secret talks threaten copyright policy (Nov 9/09)
Consumer choice key to ending this fight (Nov 2/09)
Internet providers ease back on throttle (Oct 26/09)
Canadian universities closed-minded on open access (Oct 19/09)
Do-not-call list undermined by loopholes in law (Oct 12/09)
Canadian anti-spam bill far from a done deal (Oct 5/09)
Case for Net spying not closed (Sep 28/09)
In search of smart new domain name initiatives (Sep 21/09)
Standing on guard for privacy - before Facebook (Sep 14/09)
Digitization of Canada's heritage left to Google (Sep 7/09)
Ottawa killed cellphone cost calculator (Aug 31/09)
Canada hardly a leader in the world of wireless (Aug 24/09)
Designing a copyright bill that's built to last (Aug 17/09)
Internet providers fight over high-speed claims (Aug 10/09)
'Crowdsourcing' puts many extra hands to work (Aug 3/09)
Amazon, Kindle and an Orwellian misstep (Jul 27/09)
Web neutrality hearings paving the way for action (Jul 20/09)
Free, over-the-air TV fades to black (Jul 13/09)
Neutrality hearings begin with conflicting claims (Jul 6/09)
Ministers finally embrace Canada's digital future (Jun 29/09)
Liberal shift may assure Net neutrality (Jun 22/09)
Connecting Canada to the digital world (Jun 13/09)
Time to slay Canadian file-sharing myths (Jun 8/09)
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High-speed Net expensive, slow: Report (Jun 1/09)
Two clicks and you're out, panel rules (May 25/09)
Anti-spam bill targeting phishers, spyware (May 18/09)
MPs miss chance to embrace YouTube generation (May 11/09)
U.S. List Unfairly Tarnishes Canada’s Digital Reputation (May 4/09)
Do-not-call violations set alarm bells ringing (Apr 27/09)
Old issues in modern TV 'crisis' (Apr 20/09)
Easing the passage of AIDS medicines to Africa (Apr 13/09)
Canadian Domain Name Authority at Crossroads (Apr 6/09)
Battle over Anti-Counterfeiting Treaty Heats Up (Mar 30/09)
Songwriters Bid To Legalize File Sharing Gets a Rewrite (Mar 23/09)
Canadian privacy rights buried in the fine print (Mar 16/09)
Storm Clouds Ahead For Canadian Wireless World (Mar 9/09)
Little new in new-media hearings (Mar 2/09)
Digital transition opens door to 'WiFi on steroids' (Feb 23/09)
Details of transition to digital TV a little blurry (Feb 16/09)
Scaling wall over Canada's trade complaint against China (Feb 9/09)
Tough action can reverse do-not-call disaster (Feb 2/09)
Canada Post plays Grinch in censorship row (Jan 26/09)
Flaherty Budget Chance to Put Tech Back on Track (Jan 19/09)
The music industry's digital reversal (Jan 12/09)
Crystal Ball Gazing at the Coming Year in Tech Law (Jan 5/09)
The letters of the law: a lively year in Canadian technology law and policy (Dec 22/08)
59 CRTC Internet regulation proposals take shape (Dec 15/08)
Full-length movies going online (Dec 8/08)
Lawless Canada Emerging as a Spam Haven (Dec 1/08)
CRTC ruling not the last word on Net neutrality (Nov 24/08)
'Enhanced' licence could boost privacy, security risks (Nov 17/08)
Can culture policy apply to new media? (Nov 10/08)
Treaty consultation process snubs public (Nov 3/08)
Proposed podcasting royalty fight not over (Oct 27/08)
Parties stick with obsolete strategies (Oct 20/08)
Canadian Digital Scorecard Heading Into Election Day (Oct 13/08)
Is an Internet tax coming? (Oct 6/08)
Coming to grips with an Internet that never forgets (Sept 29/08)
Canada missing out on open access momentum (Sept 22/08)
Public policy consultations no field of dreams (Sept 15/08)
Digital issues deserve spot in election campaign (Sept 8/08)
Ride Sharing Controversy Highlights Power of Networked Economy (Sept 1/08)
Culture Cuts a Blow to Canada’s Digitization Strategy (Aug 25/08)
Your PVR might make you an outlaw (Aug 18/08)
Text-message spat obscures costlier issues (Aug 11/08)
How to override do-not-call exemptions (Aug 4/08)
Public left out of anti-counterfeiting trade talks (July 28/08)
Government Copyright Bill Fails Green Test (July 21/08)
Business Takes Sides In Net Neutrality Debate (July 14/08)
Popular Iphone Debuts This Week (July 7/08)
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CIRA's 'Whois' Policy A Stunning Setback For Privacy (June 30/08)
Spectrum Auction Bonanza Allows For Proactive Thinking (June 23/08)
How The U.S. Got Its Canadian Copyright Bill (June 16/08)
Troubling Details In New Downloading Law (June 13/08)
Transparency Needed On ACTA (June 9/08)
Internet Matures As Tool For Political Advocacy (June 2/08)
Stuck With Analog Rights In Digital World (May 26/08)
Senator's Anti-Spam Bill Is Welcome News (May 19/08)
Crown Copyright Is Overdue For Retirement (May 12/08)
Iphone Shines Spotlight On Our Wireless Flaws (May 5/08)
Domain Name Policy Puts Us In Internet Vanguard (April 28/08)
A Swing And A Miss For 'Three Strikes' Policy (April 21/08)
Museums Should End Fees For Public Domain (April 15/08)
Do-Not-Call Faces Challenges (April 7/08)
Bell Throttles Its Internet Competitors (April 1/08)
CBC Prime Time Ready For Bittorrent (March 24/08)
Business In The Hotseat Over Net Censorship (March 17/08)
Everybody Is Jumping On The Levy Bandwagon (March 10/08)
Canada Stuck In Slow Lane On 'Traffic Shaping' (March 3/08)
Canadians Are Playing Key Role In `Books 2.0' (February 25/08)
Broad Consensus Is Building On Copyright Front (February 18/08)
Our Heads Should Be In The Clouds (February 11/08)
How Obama Is Using Tech To Triumph (February 4/08)
61 The Dangers Of `Locking Down' The Internet (January 28/08)
Copyright Reform A Threat To Privacy (January 21/08)
Our Universities Could Learn Plenty From MIT (January 14/08)
Tech Law Issues To Watch In 2008 (January 7/08)
The Year In Canadian Tech Law, A to Z (December 24/07)
Facebook More Than Just A Cool Tool For Kids (December 17/07)
How The Next Billion Will Reshape The Internet (December 10/07)
Cellphone Spectrum Auction Only First Step (December 3/07)
Private Email Is Not Always Hush Hush (November 26/07)
All I Want For Christmas is a Legal TiVo (November 19/07)
Canada’s Digital Info Strategy Stuck in an Analog World (November 12/07)
How the Internet on Cable Became the Internet As Cable (November 5/07)
Music Publisher’s Takedown Strikes the Wrong Chord (October 29/07)
The Telecom Takeover of Canada’s Do-Not-Call List (October 22/07)
Music Industry Needs a Dose of Innovation, Not Intervention (October 15/07)
Canadians Deserve Better ISP Transparency (October 8/07)
Privacy Threats No Longer ‘Terra Incognita’ (October 1/07)
Canadian Broadcasting Policy for a World of Abundance (September 24/07)
Misleading RCMP Data Undermines Counterfeiting Claims (September 17/07)
New Research Policy a Victory for Open Access (September 10/07)
Unlocking the Mysteries of Locked Cellphones (September 3/07)
Canadian Heritage Must Face Up To New Digital Reality (August 27/07)
A Digital Economy Blueprint for the New Industry Minister (August 20/07)
Getting Social Networks To Socialize (August 13/07)
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IPod Levy May Yet Face the Music (August 6/07)
Complicated Dell Computer Case Set Standard for Online Contracting (July 30/07)
Canada’s Lack of Pricing Competition Threatens Mobile Internet (July 23/07)
CRTC Initiatives Confront “Defining Challenge of our Time” (July 16/07)
Giving the Internet a Sporting Chance (July 9/07)
Canadian Cultural Policy Must Adapt to the Internet World (July 2/07)
Canada’s Do-Not-Call Registry Has Been Put on Hold for Too Long (June 25/07)
Federal Spectrum Auction Puts Wireless Competition On The Line (June 18/07)
Taking a Peek Behind the Scenes of Canada’s Movie Bill (June 11/07)
Multilingual Domain Name Delay A Barrier to Diversity on the Net (June 4/07)
National Science and Technology Strategy A Missed Opportunity (May 28/07)
There Will Be No Reform of Federal Privacy Laws, So Get Over It (May 21/07)
Copyright Permission Has No Place in this House (May 14/07)
Facing Up To Facebook Fears (May 7/07)
B.C. Defamation Lawsuits Put Online Freedom Of Speech At Risk (May 1/07)
We Mustn’t Cave in to Copyright Bullying (April 23/07)
ISP Must Come Clean on Traffic Shaping (April 16/07)
Web Radio May Stream North to Canada (April 9/07)
More Web Regulation Doesn’t Make Any Sense (April 2/07)
Liberals Try to Resuscitate Big Brother Plan for the Internet (March 26/07)
Special Interest Law Undermines the Olympic Spirit (March 19/07)
Number Portability Only First Step for Harried Internet Users (March 12/07)
Can’t Blame Canada for Counterfeiting (March 5/07)
63 Open Access Movement Reshaping Rules of Academic Research (February 26/07)
Recording Industry’s Digital Strategy Out of Tune (February 19/07)
Bernier’s Troubling Stand on Net Neutrality (February 12/07)
Hollywood’s Piracy Claims of Movie Piracy More Fiction Than Fact (February 5/07)
Vista’s Fine Print Raises Red Flags for Users (January 29/07)
Privacy Breach Exposes Flaw in Law (January 22/07)
Centuries Old Library Program Enters the 21st Century (January 15/07)
The Policy Response to the User Generated Content Boom (January 8/07)
The Letters of the Law: The Year in Canadian Tech Law (December 18/06)
National Digital Info Strategy Requires Courage Before Cash (December 11/06)
Child Pornography Blocking Plan a Risk Worth Taking (December 4/06)
You Might As Well Smile, We’re All on Candid Camera (November 27/06)
Hearings Offer Chance to Fix Holes in Privacy Law (November 20/06)
Oda Fundraising Concerns Threatens Broadcasting Reform (November 13/06)
Videotron Rekindles Fear of a Two-Tier Internet (November 6/06)
The Divide and Conquer Web Surveillance Plan (October 30/07)
Still Too Many Glitches to Vote for E-Voting (October 23/07)
YouTube Deal Could Signal Change For File Sharing (October 16/07)
ICANN Sacrifices Privacy for Shot at Independence (October 9/07)
Tech Law Research Hurt By Budget Cuts (October 2/07)
Bernier Should Put Spam Law Back on Agenda (September 27/06)
Sony Rootkit Deal Leaves Canadian Consumers Unsettled (September 20/06)
The Most Dangerous Treaty You’ve Never Heard About (September 13/06)
Educators Proposal Needs a Rewrite (September 6/06)
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Tough Choice for CRTC in Internet Hate Case (August 28/06)
Statscan Survey Shows Web’s Potential and Pitfalls (August 21/06)
New Battle of Waterloo Shows Danger of Over-Broad Patents (August 14/06)
Online Defamation Laws Threaten Free Speech (August 1/07)
Future of Business is Selling Less of More (July 21/06)
$20 Million in Publicity for $300 (July 14/06)
Time to Rethink CBC as Public Broadcaster (July 7/06)
Subsidizing the Copyright Lobby (June 30/06)
Dot-xxx Decision Exposes Flaws in Net Governance (June 23/06)
Captain Copyright Can Take a Hit (June 16/06)
No Two-Tiered Journalism (June 9/06)
Cyber-security Plan Must Heed Privacy Concerns Too (June 2/06)
Domain Names Shouldn’t be Only a U.S. Domain (May 22/06)
Radio Needs to Listen to the Music (May 15/06)
Supreme Court Tips Its Hand on Privacy (May 8/06)
Compatibility Worries Fuel Battle Over iPod Law (April 17/06)
Democracy Needed in Governing Web (April 3/06)
Ottawa Should Read Telco Report’s Finer Print (March 27/06)
Amateurs Shaking Up Broadcasting (March 20/06)
Don’t Subsidize Web Providers (March 13/06)
China Fights U.S. on Internet Addresses (March 6/06)
Rothstein’s Said a Lot About Tech Law (February 27/06)
U.S. Patriot Act’s Long Reach (February 20/06)
65 Two-Tiered Email to Hurt Consumers (February 13/06)
Oceans of Data Ripe for Abuse (January 30/06)
Borderless Internet Continues to Confound Judges (January 23/06)
Who Speaks for the Public (January 16/06)
Tech Laws We Need (January 9/06)
Rootkit Fiasco Shows Sterner Laws Needed (January 2/06)
Apple to Zundel, the Year in Tech Law (December 26/05)
Dangers in ISPs Bid for New Tools (December 19/05)
Make Internet an Election Issue (December 12/05)
Liberals Leave Raft of Unfinished E-Business (December 4/05)
Inadequate Laws Hobble Privacy Chief (November 28/05)
Sony Incident Wake-Up Call for Regulators (November 21/05)
U.S. Must Share More Say in How Internet Is Run (November 14/05)
What Good Are Ideas if We Lock Them Up? (November 7/05)
Technology Could Be Catalyst for CBC Renewal (October 31/05)
Ottawa Caves to Lobbyists on Do-Not-Call Law (October 24/05)
Say No To Giving Police Carte Blanche to E-Snoop (October 17/05)
No Excuse to Delay Number Portability (October 10/05)
Coming Clean on Copyright (October 3/05)
The Long Arm of Internet Law (September 26/05)
World Faces Internet Fork in the Road (September 19/05)
Tired of June Phone Calls? Call Industry Minister Now (September 12/05)
Overturning Satellite Ruling Would Signal Lobbyists Reign (September 5/05)
Education Summit Shouldn’t Be Only About Money (August 29/05)
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Beware Big Brother Disguised as ‘Lawful Access’ (August 22/05)
Why Broadband, Neutrality, Privacy Deserve Policy Boost (August 15/05)
Copying Levy Hasn’t Worked Well For Anyone (August 8/05)
Telus Breaks ISPs’ Cardinal Rule (August 1/05)
Building Privacy Culture from Ground Up (July 25/05)
Harry Potter and the Amazing Injunction (July 18/05)
The Battle for Control of the Internet (July 11/05)
Canada Lags on Privacy Breach Disclosure (July 4/05)
Betamax Principle Left Intact (June 29/05)
Bill C-60 Puts the Padlock on Teachers, Librarians (June 27/05)
Satellite Decision Serves Public, Canadian Artists (June 20/05)
Mischievous Use of Domain Names Tests Dispute Policy (June 13/05)
Music Industry Can Sue, But Many Questions Remain (June 6/05)
Ruling States the Case for Privacy (May 30/05)
Report is a Roadmap for Canning ‘Spam’ (May 23/05)
Broadband Market Left Dangerously Uncompetitive (May 16/05)
U.S. Is Bullying on Mind Property (May 9/05)
Face to Face with the Great Firewall of China (May 2/05)
We Can Help Bridge the Digital Divide (April 25/05)
Tariffs the Real Threat to Music Downloading (April 18/05)
Time Ripe for Government to Raise the Bar on Privacy (April 11/05)
Copyright’s Convergence (April 4/05)
Canada Rejects One-Sided Approach to Copyright Reform(March 28/05)
67 New Accountability Needed for Net Service Providers (March 21/05)
Keeping An Eye on a Canadian Prize (March 14/05)
What Do You Want the Internet To Be? (March 7/05)
Let Towns, Cities Provide Cheap, Everywhere Broadband (February 28/05)
Music Industry Doesn’t Need More Government Protection (February 21/05)
Revise Privacy Law to Protect Public, Not Offenders (February 14/05)
No Good Reason to Bow to U.S. Pharma’s Lobbying (February 7/05)
TPMs – A Perfect Storm for Consumers (January 31/05)
Why Ottawa Should Stand On Guard in RIM Case (January 24/05)
Fairness Calls for Fairer Rules (January 17/05)
National Web Library Do-able, Affordable, Visionary (January 10/05)
Banner Year for Digital Decisions (December 20/04)
CIBC Breach Spotlights Hole in Privacy Law (December 13/04)
Time Music Industry Focused on Product (December 6/04)
Numbers Don’t Crunch Against Downloading (November 29/04)
Dot-ca Privacy Plan a Canadian Compromise (November 22/04)
Internet-Age Aid For Canadian Culture (November 15/04)
Advancing Technology Threatens Cultural Policy (November 8/04)
Who Should Own Your Wedding Pictures? (November 1/04)
Revise Privacy Law to Expose Offenders, Block Snoops (October 25/04)
Privacy Law Perversely Protects Those Who Break It (October 18/04)
Court Decision Foreshadows Policy Debate (October 11/04)
Why Canada Should Follow UK, Not US, on Copyright Policy (October 4/04)
Tackling Innovation Deficit a Balancing Act (September 27/04)
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No Need for Dickensian Approach to Voice Via Web (September 20/04)
Mr. Minister, Please Protect the Public Interest (September 6/04)
Music Industry Abruptly Changes Tune on Ringtones (August 23/04)
A Blueprint for Better, and Fairer, Copyright Law (August 9/04)
U.S. Laws Put Canadian Privacy at Risk (July 26/04)
Bridging the Digital Divide (July 19/04)
Balancing Rights of Creators, Users (July 5/04)
Parties the Same? Not on Tech Issues (June 21/04)
Copyright Reform Needs Balanced Approach (June 14/04)
Will Copyright Reform Chill Use of the Web? (May 31/04)
West Urged To Share Internet Governance (May 17/04)
A Recipe For Battling Spam in Canada (May 3/04)
Weak Enforcement Undermines Privacy Laws (April 19/04)
World Resists One-Size-Fits-All Web Laws (April 5/04)
Low Tech Case Has High Tech Impact (March 22/04)
Music Licensing Would Be Viable For All (March 8/04)
Web Decision Extends Long Arm of Ontario Law (February 16/04)
Canada Badly Needs A National Standard (February 2/04)
Fighting Privacy Law Questionable (January 19/04)
Contentious Laws Will Mould Technology (January 5/04)
‘D’ Is For Disputes That Shape Our Lives (December 15/03)
Think Web’s Virtually Government Free? Think Again (December 1/03)
Name Names, Or Privacy Law Toothless (November 17/03)
69 Will Copyright Treaty Benefit Canadians? (November 3/03)
Why We Must Stand on Guard Over Copyrights (October 20/03)
Web Privacy vs. Identifying Infringers (October 6/03)
Verisign's Tampering Shows High Cost of Apathy (September 22/03)
Free, Upgraded Web Data Boon to Lawyers, Public (September 8/03)
Web Quandary For Regulators (August 25/03)
Fairness Demands Review of Domain Name Dispute Policy (August 11/03)
The Tortoise, The Hare, and The Internet (July 28/03) Court Cases Taming ‘Wild West Web’ (July 7/03)
Tax Holiday Expiring, Regulators Aspiring on the Web (June 30/03)
Reforming Copyright is a Concern for Everyone (June 23/03)
U.S. Extends Its Hegemony over the Internet (June 9/03)
Waffling Ontario Coming up Short on Privacy Law (May 26/03)
‘Big Music’ Set to Declare War on its Audience (May 12/03)
Have-Not World More Plugged-In Than We Think (April 21/03)
High Court Tackles Web Lottery; Online Music To Come (April 7/03)
Fairness Says It’s Time to Tax Goods Sold Online (March 24/03)
Governments Hold Reins in Those National Domains (March 10/03)
In Web Disputes, U.S. Law Rules the World (February 24/03)
Legalese Proved No Defence in E-Trading Case (February 10/03)
Privacy Popular, But Eves Dropped the Ball (February 3/03)
Courts Poised to Decide Internet ‘Borders’ (January 13/03)
Globe And Mail Cyberlaw Columns
Internet Turf War Playing Out (November 7/02)
70 Net Copyright Reform: Its Deep in Policy Agenda (October 17/02)
Federal Proposal Tells Only Part of Cybercrime Story (October 3/02)
Net Contract Fights Should Avoid Courts (September 19/02)
E-commerce Tax Policy Penalizes Canadian Business (September 5/02) Moves Afoot to Give Consumers E-commerce Legal Certainty (August 22/02) Internet Overseer Takes Wrong Path on Accountability (August 8/02) Domain Name Policy Absurd When it Comes to Trademarks (July 25/02) Internet 'Choke Points' Put the Squeeze on Content (July 11/02) Shift to Workplace Privacy Protection (June 28/02) New Net Laws Reach Beyond Borders (June 27/02) Public's Role in Net Governance Threatened (June 13/02) Time to Hit Delete Key on Weak Spam Policy (May 30/02) Appeal Court Ruling the Latest Word on On-line Music (May 16/02) Web Lottery Case Misses Legal Jackpot (May 2/02) Key Case Restores Copyright Balance (April 18/02) Canadian Privacy Law's Ins and Outs (April 4/02) Music Fans Face Raw Copyright Deal (March 21/02) Domain Dispute Bias Goes From Bad to Worse (March 7/02) Quebec Firm's Language Law Challenge Tests E-jurisdiction (February 21/02) Brands, Free Speech Clash Over Domains (February 7/02) Canada's Online Tax Policy Lags Leaders (January 24/02) Cyberlaw 2002: The Next Generation (January 3/02) The Story of Cyberlaw in 2001 (December 20/01) Copyright Debate Turns One-Sided (December 6/01) Canada's Laissez-Faire Stance on Microsoft Stifles Innovation (November 8/01) Anti-terrorism Bill Could Limit E-Speech (October 25/01) Government, Commissioner At Odds Over Privacy (October 11/01) 71 Definitive Dispute Policy Takes Shape (September 28/01) Microsoft Likely to Get More Experience in Court (September 7/01) Cyberlaw Shows Its True Colours (September 6/01) How Bias Besets Domain Cases, (August 23/01) Long Arm of the Law Needs New Guidelines for the Internet, (August 9/01) Russian's Case Shows Severity of Copyright Law, (July 26/01) Canada's On-line Copyright Policy Takes Shape, (July 12/01) Net at Stake Despite Ruling, (June 29/01) E-Borders Loom, For Better or Worse, (June 28/01) It’s Time To Speak Out on Internet Legislation, (June 14/01) Privacy Law Needs Open Disclosure, (May 30/01) All Electronic Contracts Are Not Created Equal, (May 25/01) Confusion Reins in Domain Name Cases, (May 14/01) Battles Brew as Online Privacy Policies Diverge, (May 3/01) Laws Spur Growth in E-commerce, (April 19/01) Lots of Legal Challenges When Dot Coms Die, (March 30/01) Get Ready for Reruns over Online TV, (March 15/01)
Harmonization of Web Law Sparks Heated Haggling, (March 1/01)
B.C. Court Shores Up Protection for Anticorporate Protest Sites, (February 15/01)
Like it or Not, Napster and its Kind are Here to Stay, (February 14/01)
U.S. Blazes Trail in Clash of Trademarks, Domain Names, (February 1/01)
Everybody Wants to Rule the Web, (January 18/01)
Privacy Tops Internet Hot Spots for 2001, (January 4/01)
Cyberlaw: An A to Z Review, (December 21/00)
A Troubling Snapshot of E-Privacy in Canada, (December 7/00)
E-content Rules Must Shield Election, not Web Sites, (November 26/00)
72 Privacy Compliance is the New Priority, (November 10/00)
Watch Out for the Partitioned Web, (November 2/00)
New Dot-ca World Needs an Election, (October 26/00)
E-mail Traces Raises Legal Issues, (October 19/00)
Dot-ca Dispute Rules Open for Public Debate, (October 5/00)
What's In a Name? Domain Reform Holds the Answer, (September 26/00)
High-Speed Net Clash Moves Into High Gear, (September 21/00)
Trademark Confusion Creeps Into Web Site Content, (September 7/00)
WIPO Wipes Out Domain Name Rights, (August 24/00)
Copyright Holders May Rule the Day, (August 10/00)
Napster North of the 49th Parallel, (July 27/00)
When Technology is at Odds with the Law, (July 13/00)
Legally, I am Canadian, (June 29/00)
Firms Play 'Whack a Mole' Game in Trying to Stop E-competition, (June 15/00)
New Laws Aim to Ease Uncertainties of E-commerce, (June 9/00 - E-Business Special Report)
The Fine Print Behind FTC's Advertising Rules For the Dot-Com World, (June 1/00)
EU Edicts Influence Canadian Cyberlaw, (May 18/00)
Domain Name Wars Heat Up, (May 4/00)
Proposed Dot-ca Dispute Resolution Method Flawed, (April 20/00)
Federal Tribunal Forges Internet Policy, (April 6/00)
Stamp of Approval Needed for E-Business, (March 23/00)
Courts Take Hands-Off Approach to Passive Web Sites, (March 9/00)
Local Laws Begin to Assert Power, (February 24/00)
Cookies Crumble Personal Privacy, (February 10/00)
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A Patently Obvious Threat to E-commerce, (January 27/00)
Lawmakers To Mull Milestones in 2000, (January 13/00)
H is for Hackers: An A to Z Guide to Cyberlaw in 1999, (December 28/99)
Privacy Law No Substitute For Vigilance, (December 9/99)
Vital Ruling Misses Boat on Offshore Servers, (November 18/99)
What It Means When You Click 'I Agree' , (October 21/99)
Buyers Will Be Wary Until Laws Locate E-Commerce, (Sept. 16/99)
The Gap Between Won't and Can't, (August 19/99)
Shorter Articles and Opinion Pieces
Too Much of a Good Thing: Canada’s Consultation Crisis, The Hill Times, 25 October 2017
Canadian Copyright Reform Requires a Fix to the Fair Dealing Gap, The Hill Times, 1 December 2016
The Price of Peeking, CJFE’s 2011-2012 Review of Freedom of Expression in Canada, May 2012
Will Paradis Fail To Can Canadian Spam?, 29 November 2011
Liberals' Copyright Position may Provide Roadmap to C-32 Compromise, The Hill Times, 17 January 2011
In Search of A Compromise on Copyright, The Hill Times, 8 November 2010
From Rhetoric to Reality: The Key Issues in Bill C-32, The Hill Times, 27 September 2010
Canadian Copyright Bill Has Its Flaws but It’s Fixable, CCH Commercial Times, August 2010, 1 - 4
Federal Court Ruling Shows Copyright Fair Dealing Fears Greatly Exaggerated, The Hill Times, 2 August 2010
Bill C-32: Flawed but Fixable, The Mark, 8 June 2010
Moore: More Like iPadlock than iPod Minister, The Hill Times, 26 April 2010
A Canadian Copyright Law for the Digital Age: Toward a Balanced Approach, The National, Jan – Feb 2010
74 Copyright Consultation Provides Blueprint for Reform, The Hill Times, 2 November 2009
Why Canada Lags on Wireless, The Mark, 31 August 2009
A Copyright Law That's Built To Last, The Mark, 18 August 2009
How Crowdsourcing Can Transform Government, The Mark, 5 August 2009
A Nation of Pirates?, The Mark, 4 May 2009
The ACTA Threat To The Future Of WIPO, IP-Watch, 14 April 2009
Ten More Questions for Industry Minister Prentice, The Hill Times, 26 May 2008
Conservatives Could Face Long, Hot Copyright Summer, The Hill Times, 12 May 2008
Fair Dealing Reform a Key Innovation Policy Priority, The Hill Times, 7 April 2008
Is Prentice’s Copyright Bill Born in the U.S.A.?, The Hill Times, 4 February 2008
Fair Copyright Provides Prentice With Reform Roadmap, The Hill Times, 21 January 2008
Ten Questions for Industry Minister Prentice, The Hill Times, 10 December 2007
Canadian Broadcasting Policy for a World of Abundance, Canadian Issues, Winter 2007
Politics Trumps Policy as Copyright Bill Approaches, The Hill Times, 12 November 2007
Opening Up To Canada’s Innovation Potential, The Hill Times, 5 November 2007
Navigating Canada’s Copyright Conflicts, The Hill Times, 1 October 2007
USTR’s Special 301 Report May Be More Rhetoric Than Reality, BNA’s Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal, 27 April 2007
Canadian Government Hearings Offer Chance to Fix Holes in Privacy Law, World Data Protection Report, December 2006
After Access: Canadian Education and Copyright Reform, Education Canada, Summer 2006
Mapping the Digital Future, OECD Observer, March 2006
Harry Potter and the Right to Read, Freedom to Read 2006
Over the Lines of the Law, Quill and Quire, September 2005
The Upcoming Copyright Clash, Literary Review of Canada, 23 – 25, June 2005
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Canadian Copyright Reform Must Focus on Policy and Process, The Hill Times, 13 June 2005
Piercing The Peer-to-Peer Myths: An Examination of the Canadian Experience, First Monday, Volume 10, Number 4 (April 2005)
Dangerous Copyright Proposals Hit Medical Community Hard, Canadian Medical Association Journal, April 12, 2005; 172(8)
Copyright Reform is not a Spectator Sport, Canadian Association of University Teachers Bulletin (November 2004)
A Balanced Approach to Reforming Copyright Law, University Affairs, 28 – 30 (October 2004)
The Long Arm of the USA Patriot Ac: A Threat to Canadian Privacy?, 1 Canadian Privacy Law Review 133 – 43 (with Milana Homsi) (October 2004)
Long Arm of U.S. Law Poses Canadian Privacy Risk, 4 Privacy Advisor, 1 – 4 (August 2004)
In Web Disputes, U.S. Law Rules the World, 4 World Internet Law Report 17-18 (March 2003)
Taxation Without Representation on the Net, Managing Intellectual Property 4 (September 2002)
Shift to More Workplace Privacy Protection, CCH Labour Notes 1217 (August 19, 2002)
Fairness and the ICANN UDRP, 3 Internet Law & Business 181-91 (January 2002)
The Canadian Electoral Process in Cyberspace, 2 McGill Int’l Rev. 18-9 (Winter 2001)
E-Trail Traces Raise Legal Issues, 4 J. of Internet L. (7) 27-8 (Jan. 2001)
The Future of Internet and E-commerce Law, The Future of Financial Services 215-7 (KPMG 2000)
E-Commerce Jurisdiction: The Canadian Approach, 4 J. of Internet L. (2) 9-11 (Aug. 2000)
Developing a Law School Web Culture Through Online Law, JURIST: Law Professors on the Web, (March 1999)
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