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Global Privacy Enforcement Network launches internet privacy sweep

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
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  • Canada, Global
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  • May 6 2013

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada ("OPC"), the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, as well as 17

Linden Lab aims to make (Second) Life easier for IP owners

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada, Global
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  • October 31 2009

Second Life, one of the most popular three-dimensional virtual worlds accessible via the Internet, is working to provide owners of intellectual property (IP) with better tools for managing and controlling their content

Trying to protect your brand from being .xxx-ploited

  • Bereskin & Parr LLP
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  • Canada, Global
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  • August 3 2011

As the .xxx registry gets ready for launch, trade mark owners are gearing up to try to block registration of their marks as .xxx domain names

Can they do that? Policing your intellectual property on the internet

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada, Global
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  • September 17 2009

As more and more commerce is conducted online, it has become increasingly important to monitor the Internet for activities that infringe a company’s intellectually property rights

Protect your trademarks from Facebook usernames

  • Torys LLP
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  • Canada, Global
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  • June 12 2009

Facebook, the social networking website, has announced that beginning at 12:01 a.m. EDT on June 13, 2009, Facebook users will be able to create personalized usernames for their Facebook pages

Confusingly similar

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
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  • Canada, Global
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  • January 24 2008

A recent decision of a WIPO panel under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Policy") shows that the application of the Policy is not as broad as an action in the courts

Copyright and privacy questions around your public tweets and the new Library of Congress archive and Google Replay

  • Bereskin & Parr LLP
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  • Canada, Global
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  • May 10 2010

Twitter has become a cultural phenomenon, 140 characters at a time

Multinational corporations and patchwork privacy laws: the Facebook dilemma

  • Norton Rose Canada LLP
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  • Canada, Global
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  • August 13 2009

The Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s recent report in response to complaints filed by the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic ("CIPPIC") in respect of certain Facebook practices presents an interesting glimpse into the struggles multinational corporations face when attempting to comply with privacy regimes of the multiple jurisdictions in which they operate

Protecting trademarks from registration on the ".xxx" domain

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
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  • Canada, Global
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  • August 19 2011

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the international non-profit organization charged with creating policies for use of the internet, recently approved the internet domain “.xxx” for use specifically by the adult entertainment industry

Understanding the new gTLD program, and what it means for your brand

  • Bereskin & Parr LLP
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  • Canada, Global
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  • August 3 2011

After years of consultation, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved the next round of generic top-level domains (gTLDs), which are generic suffixes of domain names (e.g. .com, .net, and. org