Topic - The Courts

Google did not have the best month in the Courts

Posted on April 30, 2018 by allen

Sure, everyone is talking about Facebook this month (and last month, and probably many months before that, who knows, I barely pay attention to this stuff), but did you know Google is having its own issues in April, but in the courts? Let me lexplain what’s happened.

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This was a bad month to be an internet pirate in Canada

Posted on February 28, 2018 by allen

ARRRGGHH

Arrrrrghh you a pirate? It’s all bad news from here.

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Posted in: Copyright, The Courts
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You can go ahead and send those text messages to your drug dealer (maybe)

Posted on December 19, 2017 by allen

Well that’s good news I guess? Two very important cases came out of the Supreme Court a couple of weeks ago. And while technically they are not internet law cases, and I write a blog about internet law, they are huge privacy cases. And I teach privacy! So I guess I should read them and write about them.

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California Court to Supreme Court of Canada: F*** You (I’m paraphrasing)

Posted on November 19, 2017 by allen

Nice houseIn July of 2014, I wrote a post that was entitled This hugely important Google case will be going on for a while…. Well it’s more than 3 years later, and it’s still going on. I am psychic!

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Yahoo! My job is in jeopardy, part deux

Posted on October 31, 2017 by allen

d-oh!

/ checks date of last blog post.

Oooh boy.

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Facebook won’t like this and my job is in jeopardy – thanks, Supreme Court!

Posted on June 27, 2017 by allen
Irony can be pretty ironic

Mmm, that’s good irony

Oh Supreme Court, you’ve gone and done it now.

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Notices! Online Pics! YouTube! It’s the Canadian internet law jurisprudence month in review

Posted on May 31, 2017 by allen

mmm, dusty

The month of May 2017 will go down in the annals of internet law history for having not one, not two, but five (three, sir!) three cases of note about internet law in Canada. Well, maybe not “of note”, but noteworthy. Oh crap, I just looked and one of the cases is actually from April. Well this is starting poorly.
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Forget the right to be forgotten in Canada (for now)

Posted on February 28, 2017 by allen

Have you forgotten about Simple Minds?

There was a huge, huge, huge (no really it was huge) internet law case that came out of the Federal Court about a month ago. “If it was so huge, why are you only writing about it now?” you are asking me. Shut up is why.

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