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Privacy commissioner releases videogame guidance
- Heenan Blaikie LLP
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- Canada
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- November 6 2012
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has released a Guidance Document for videogames, with particular relevance to online games which require users to provide personal information as a condition of accessing the game
The Gibson conundrum - recording telephone calls
- Heenan Blaikie LLP
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- Canada
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- July 26 2010
Depending on the type of news websites and television shows you frequent, it was difficult last week to escape the near-constant reporting surrounding the public release of telephone conversations between Mel Gibson and his ex-girlfriend (Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post has a detailed discussion of the matter ("Mel Gibson hits the Radar screen"), with particular focus on the behind-the-scenes maneuvering among various competing media outlets
PIPEDA and filmingphotographing individuals for film and TV projects
- Heenan Blaikie LLP
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- Canada
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- February 15 2011
This article explores the interface between Canada's primary federal privacy legislation, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ("PIPEDA"), and the activity of filming or photographing an individual where the resulting film or photograph is used in a motion picture or television project
Invasion of privacy tort in Ontario - implications for entertainment lawyers
- Heenan Blaikie LLP
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- Canada
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- January 19 2012
The question of whether Ontario law recognizes a tort cause of action for invasionbreach of privacy has long been a contentious one - but it has finally been definitively settled in the affirmative
Conroy on personality rights in Canada
- Heenan Blaikie LLP
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- Canada
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- January 23 2012
Amy Conroy, a Ph.D. student at the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law, has written an excellent article summarizing the various legal regimes applicable to the protection of "personality rights" in Canada, from the common law tort of "appropriation of personality" to the statutory "privacy" regimes in various provinces to the civil code and Quebec Charter-based position found in Quebec
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- Author - Bob Tarantino
- Workarea - Information Technology