Showing Tag: Intellectual Property
Permitted Keyword Advertising in Canadian Trademark Law
One of the basics of trademark law is “use”. It is important in several ways, but a major one is testing whether…
A Box Full of Questions: Kodi and Canadian Law
You may have heard of Kodi boxes. You might even have one yourself. They sometimes go by different names – Android TV…
Are Text Messages Less Private?
Ask people on the street how private their communications are and you will get a variety of answers. It turns out the…
Who Gets To Look In Your Phone At The Border?
Here’s a thought experiment for you. You are at airport security, beginning the always pleasant regime of scans and scrutiny that today’s…
How Much Is Privacy Worth? In This Case, $15,000
Is privacy dead? Not really, of course, but it is under attack. One of the biggest weapons against privacy is the increasing…
Fair Dealing Still Treated Broadly By Canadian Courts
Copyright is broad and limited. What do I mean by that apparent oxymoron? Anything covered by Canada’s Copyright Act enjoys a wide…
How Much Of Your Music and Video Do You Actually Own?
How much music do you own? I am talking about tunes in any form – downloaded files, CD’s, DVD’s, sheet music or…
How “Notice and Notice” Works for Copyright Claims in Canada
You have this “friend”. She opened her mail box one day and found a letter from her internet service provider. She is…
NDA’s Are Not Magic Bullets
One of the acronyms that gets thrown around a lot in business is “NDA”. It of course stands for non-disclosure agreement, sometimes…
Safeguarding Business and Customer Data
Sex sells. That is not news. This piece is not about sex, but it is about the lesson behind a rather salacious…
Using Traps To Snare Copyright Infringement
Are you familiar with Lillian Mountweazel, the American photographer who was killed in an explosion while working for Combustibles magazine? Did you…
Don’t Make This Mistake When Copying Things From The Internet
The internet makes it simple to find information with a few keystrokes (some of it is even true). So one can forget…