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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently voted in favour of accepting applications for new top-level domain (TLD) extensions beginning January 12, 2012.

Canadian controls over the export or transfer of goods, software and technology containing or designed to work with encryption continue to present challenges for Canadian companies.

We will never fully know the answer to this.

The Supreme Court of Canada has recognized Canadians’ right to Internet privacy in a recent decision involving IP address information provided to police.

Defamation is defined as untrue statements made by an individual that are harmful to someone else's reputation and are shared with a third party.

The Internet has transformed society in so many ways, and the legal systems need to adapt to this new reality.

Software license agreements often specify important rights and obligations that are triggered when the software license ends or that continue to apply after the software license agreement ends.

In Procureur général du Québec v Association canadienne des télécommunications sans fil, 2021 QCCA 730, the Quebec Court of Appeal confirms that a province cannot compel Internet service providers...

On July 19, 2024, CrowdStrike, which is widely regarded as a leading global provider in the cybersecurity field, released an update for one of its security products.

Canada is investing billions to bring high-speed internet to every corner of the country.

Telezone’s application for a telecommunications licence was rejected by Industry Canada. Although Telezone did not seek to overturn or invalidate this administrative decision, it subsequently brought a related civil action for damages against the Federal Crown on a number of grounds.

By enacting what may be the most comprehensive anti-spam law in the world, Canada’s Parliament has placed new and significant obligations on businesses that communicate and market electronically.

In Trader v CarGurus, 2017 ONSC 1841 (CanLII), the Ontario Court of Justice has opined on a number of points arising out of the 2012 copyright amendments introduced by the Copyright Modernization Act.

CASL creates new rules for email marketing and other e-communications by requiring that recipients consent to receiving commercial electronic messages.

Canada's anti-spam legislation (CASL) has now been in force for almost two years. However, many businesses still find it difficult to understand and some still struggle to be compliant with the new law.

In "Autodesk, Inc. v. Dassault Systèmes Solidworks Corporation", the US District Court for the Northern District of California recently considered whether computer file extensions are entitled to trade-mark protection.

On December 30th, 2015, the Canadian Competition Bureau, which is responsible for administration and enforcement of the Competition Act, announced that Telus Communications Inc., one of Canada's "Big Three" wireless carriers, had entered into a consent agreement with the Competition Bureau for alleged misleading advertising in relation to "premium text messaging services".