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Meta-morphosis: tag, you’re it: Federal Court decision gives no copyright or trademark protection to metatags
Canada - July 3 2015 The success of a business that operates online is, in large part, driven by how effective the business is in utilizing search engines, which drive…
Will Advertising Standards Canada “weigh in” on how thin is too thin?
Canada, United Kingdom - June 23 2015 A June 2015 decision by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in the United Kingdom - the equivalent of Advertising Standards Canada - recently…
Status of animation incentives in Nova Scotia? Keep the cartoons coming
Canada - May 12 2015 In the past few years, Nova Scotia has fostered the development of video game and interactive media companies by offering a competitive digital media…
Re: Sound dancing again
Canada - April 15 2015 As noted in a previous blog post on Re:Sound Tariff No. 6.B (Use of Recorded Music to Accompany Physical Activities), sets the royalties to be paid…
#SaveSunnyvale – Nova Scotia’s 2015 budget and the film tax credit
Canada - April 11 2015 Nova Scotia's Minister of Finance Diana Whalen hinted in the weeks leading up to yesterday's budget announcement that the provincial government was…
Element of malice imported into definition of cyberbullying
Canada - March 31 2015 The Nova Scotia Supreme Court has finally given some much-needed judicial interpretation to the broadly worded definition of cyberbullying contained…
“Technically true” is not true enough: product claims and hidden terms are major traps in advertising
Canada - March 17 2015 In the digital economy, the ability to advertise across multiple platforms has exponentially increased the opportunities to market to consumers by…
Anti-spam just got real: CRTC levies $1.1 million penalty for sending unsolicited emails
Canada - March 17 2015 For those of us wondering when the first shot under Canada's anti-spam law ("CASL") would be heard, we now have our answer. Last week the Canadian…
Rihanna publicity case shows differences in UK law
United Kingdom - February 22 2015 A very recent English Court of Appeal decision shows the distinct approach of English courts to publicity rights (Fenty v. Topshop [2015] EWCA Civ 3)…
No host liability for readers’ vitriol on unmoderated forum
Canada - February 22 2015 Until very recently, news media and other forum hosts have been coping with a significant yet ill-defined area of Canadian law concerning their…
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