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Virtual property in virtual worlds

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Global
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  • August 15 2009

Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) are virtual worlds in which players act as inhabitants and band together to engage in immersive online entertainment

Facebook and usernames: next steps

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Global
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  • July 14 2009

On June 9, 2009 Facebook announced that it would allow users to create a personalized URL for their Facebook pages so that it would read www.facebook.comusername

Preventing registration of a trade-mark as a Facebook URL

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Global
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  • June 11 2009

Beginning at 12:01 am (EDT) on Saturday June 13, 2009, Facebook users will be able to select usernames that will be displayed as part of URLs (www.facebook.comusername

Federal Court of Appeal holds that ringtone transmissions are communications of musical works to the public

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 15 2009

In Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association v. Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), the Federal Court of Appeal upheld a decision of the Copyright Board of Canada that Internet transmissions of musical ringtones by wireless telephone and other Internet ringtone suppliers constitute "communications of musical works to the public" within the meaning of section 3(1)(f) of the Copyright Act

Domain name ordered transferred in first CDRP gripe case

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • August 30 2007

In the first gripe site case decided under the CIRA Dispute Resolution Policy (CDRP), a Panel has ordered the transfer of the domain name mckeehomes.ca from the Registrant to the Complainant McKee Homes