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Canadian securities regulators are increasingly scrutinizing mining issuers' promotional materials, including social media posts, investor presentations, and website content, for compliance with National Instrument 43-101.

The framers of the U.S. Constitution wrote that government "shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech."

Anything you do or say may be used against you in the court of law. Increasingly, this includes what you may have shared online.

Saskatchewan has officially brought The Defamation Act into force. The Defamation Act replaces the province's century-old Libel and Slander Act, which had been in place since 1909. The new legislation reflects the realities of modern communication and is designed to address how reputational harm occurs in an era dominated by online publishing, social media, and digital news platforms.

Social media raises complex and challenging issues for all professional regulators.

In this case, Warner hired an ad agency, Plaid Social (Plaid), to run their YouTube campaign which also required influencers to post on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook.

When defamatory statements are alleged to have been transmitted internationally via social media, the question of where to start a lawsuit is often a key issue.

On September 7, the Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC") settled with online gamers over allegations they had deceptively endorsed an online gambling service that the pair jointly owned.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, that makes a meme worth about 50 tweets. It's therefore no surprise that so many companies are interested in leveraging memes in marketing.

In recent years, advertisers have increasingly established commercial relationships with online personalities or "influencers", who market their products through various digital platforms and social media.

The Association of Canadian Advertisers, the Canadian Beverage Association, Food, Health & Consumer Products of Canada and Restaurants Canada recently published the Code for the Responsible Advertising of Food and Beverage Products to Children.

The Government of Canada introduced its long-anticipated "online harms" legislation on February 26, 2024, by tabling Bill C-63 in the House of Commons. Bill C-63...

The long-awaited decision of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal in Strom v Saskatchewan Registered Nurses' Association, 2020 SKCA 112, was recently released.

Social media platforms like Instagram are an excellent tool for running an online business. However, conducting your business through Instagram raises a serious risk: account deactivation.

The Conference Board and the Stanford University’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance recently published its 2012 Social Media Survey, entitled "What Do Corporate Directors and Senior Managers Know about Social Media?"

In the spring of 2021, we wrote an article about the Caplan v Atas, 2021 ONSC 670 decision which discussed the novel tort of internet harassment.

YouTube creators can earn revenue in a number of different ways.