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After initial studies carried out by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Develop (OECD), the OECD and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) updated these studies in 2016.

On June 13, 2012, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) revealed the list of all newly proposed generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs).

In a decision impacting Internet Service Providers, online music services and copyright owners, the Federal Court of Appeal has held that a download of a music file from an online music service to a single user is a communication of the musical work to the public under the Copyright Act.

A string of number one hits and worldwide notoriety weren’t enough to bring Lady Gaga success in a domain name dispute over the use of her stage name.

ICANN has revealed the applicants for new generic top-level-domains (gTLDs).

This recent decision provides a good case study on software development, licensing and copyright issues.

The issue before the Court was whether music previews available to consumers through commercial music stores on the Internet were covered by the fair dealing exception such that no royalties should be paid to copyright owners.

On October 22, 2010, an American magistrate judge ruled that a plaintiff suing Universal Music Corp. for improperly sending a takedown notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) waived a number of heads of attorney-client privilege by discussing the details of her legal case by email and on a blog.

The power of social media was on full display this past week, as the unauthorized publication of a recipe for apple pie drew a quick and virulent online response.

In December 2015, over 50 WTO members, including Canada, gathered at the Nairobi Ministerial Conference, and agreed to the expansion of the ITA, a WTO agreement that aims to eliminate tariffs on IT products.

Months ago, proponents of Bill C-18, the Online News Act, dismissed warnings from Meta and Google, believing their threats to remove news links from their platforms were mere bluffs.

CASL comes into effect on July 1, 2014 and will have a significant impact on how Canadian organizations can legally communicate with their clients.

The Competition Bureau has resolved its first public enforcement action alleging that a marketer engaged in astroturfing.

After almost a decade of consultation and debate, the Government of Canada today announced that Canada’s anti-spam law is coming into force.

Canada’s strict new anti-spam legislation is coming in just three weeks.

In July 2007, the Canadian government appointed the Competition Policy Review Panel, chaired by former telecom industry executive L.R. (Red) Wilson, to review key elements of Canada’s competition and investment policies to ensure they are working effectively.

On February 3, 2015, Garret Rempel, a Senior Consultant with MNP’s Technology Consulting Services, presented his paper ‘Web Performance – Defining Standards for Web Page Performance in Business Applications’...

On Thursday, September 30, Stikeman Elliott hosted a client seminar featuring Abhilash Bhachech from the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions. Richard C. Owens and Mihkel E. Voore joined Mr. Bhachech as speakers with Wesley Ng serving as moderator.