Professor Geist’s weekly Toronto Star Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, HTML backup article, homepage version) examines the emergence of a jurisdictional gap in Canada’s privacy law. According to a recent letter from the Privacy Commissioner, the legislation does not extend to investigating organizations without a physical presence in Canada. […]
Columns
Piercing the P2P Myths, Part Two
Professor Geist's weekly Toronto Star Law Bytes column features part two (Toronto Star version, HTML backup article, homepage version) of the examination of the financial impact of peer-to-peer music downloading on the Canadian music industry. Following part one, which demonstrated that recording industry loss claims are greatly exaggerated and that […]
Piercing the Peer-to-Peer Myths (Part One)
Professor Geist's regular Toronto Star Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, HTML backup article, homepage version) is the first of a two-part look at the impact of peer-to-peer file sharing on the music industry. The column provides a detailed examination of the Canadian Recording Industry Association's own numbers, concluding that […]
CIRA Proposes New WHOIS Policy
Professor Geist’s latest Toronto Star Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, HTML backup article, homepage version) examines CIRA’s new proposed WHOIS policy for the dot-ca domain. The new policy will not publicly disclose personal information for individual registrations, though corporate and organizational registrations will typically have full information publicly posted […]
Toward a 21st Century Canadian Cultural Policy
Professor Geist's weekly Toronto Star Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, HTML backup article, homepage version) features part two of an examination of Canadian cultural policy. The column argues that the current Canadian culture toolkit must be recast for the 21st century by adapting it to emerging technologies and to […]
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