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Human Rights Tribunal reduces settlement amount after employee violated her confidentiality obligations
- Stikeman Elliott LLP
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- Canada
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- November 12 2012
For the first time, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal reduced the amount owing to an applicant under the terms of a settlement reached by the parties, after the applicant breached the confidentiality clause contained in the Minutes of Settlement by posting on Facebook that a settlement had been reached
Previews of musical works do not infringe copyright
- Stikeman Elliott LLP
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- Canada
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- July 13 2012
As we've discussed in a number of recent blog posts, the Supreme Court of Canada this week released a number of major copyright-related decisions
IIROC communications guidelines updated to reflect social media
- Stikeman Elliott LLP
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- Canada
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- December 8 2011
IIROC released guidance yesterday regarding the communication, supervision and retention of advertisements, sales literature and correspondence by dealers
No liability for defamation for basic hyperlinks, says Supreme Court
- Stikeman Elliott LLP
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- Canada
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- October 21 2011
Bloggers, tweeters, webpage owners and other providers and hosts of internet content can breathe a little easier today following a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada that ruled that merely providing hyperlinks to defamatory content cannot make them liable for defamation
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
Who was that masked man? Court protects anonymity of internet users
- Stikeman Elliott LLP
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- Canada
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- July 26 2011
In the latest chapter in a $6 million defamation suit by a former mayor, an Ontario court has refused to order the disclosure of the identities of three individuals who used pseudonyms to post to an online forum
CSA scrutinize marketing practices of portfolio managers
- Stikeman Elliott LLP
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- Canada
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- July 6 2011
The Canadian Securities Administrators released a staff notice yesterday summarizing findings from a focused compliance review of the marketing practices of firms registered as portfolio managers
Supreme Court to consider whether ISPs are broadcasting undertakings
- Stikeman Elliott LLP
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- Canada
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- March 25 2011
The Supreme Court of Canada has announced that it will hear an important "convergence" case respecting regulatory treatment of Internet access to broadcasting content
Déjà vu all over again: CRTC considers re-imposing payment of benefits on BDU transactions
- Stikeman Elliott LLP
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- Canada
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- March 11 2011
In a brief amendment to the Notice of Consultation that initiated the upcoming vertical integration hearing, the CRTC has quietly added to the issues for discussion the possibility that benefits payments may be required in future applications for authority to transfer the ownership or control of broadcasting distribution undertakings (BDUs), but the low-key nature of the announcement belies the potentially significant impact of such a change in policy
How much is that Tweet in the window?
- Stikeman Elliott LLP
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- Canada, United Kingdom
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- January 13 2011
A Tweet may represent a mere 140-characters; however a recent investigation in the UK is exposing that those 140-characters can represent big money
