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2021
9 Mar 2021
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 79: David Kaye on the Challenges of Reconciling Freedom of Expression and the Regulation of Online Harmsoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2021
Misplaced Priorities: Why Has Canada’s Privacy Bill Disappeared from the Government’s Legislative Agenda?original ↗
3 Mar 2021
Is Bill C-10 Unconstitutional? A Former Justice Senior General Counsel Makes the Case It Isoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2021
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 78: Jennifer Jenkins on What Copyright Term Extension Could Mean for Canadaoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2021
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 77: The Complexity of Internet Content Regulation – A Conversation with CIPPIC’s Vivek Krishnamurthyoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2021
Beware the Unintended Consequences: Some Warning Signs for Canada from the Australian Government Battle With Facebookoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2021
The Copyright Bill That Does Nothing: Senate Bill Proposes Copyright Reform to Support Media Organizationsoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2021
Circumventing Parliament: How Bill C-10 Dramatically Reduces Parliamentary Oversight and Review Over Broadcast Policyoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2021
Afraid to Lead: Canadian Government Launches Timid Consultation on Implementing Copyright Term Extensionoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2021
Why The Secrecy on Bill C-10?: How the Liberals Abandoned Their Commitment to Consultation, and Transparency in Pushing Their Broadcast Reform Billoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2021
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 76: Higher Consumer Costs and Less Choice – My Appearance Before the Heritage Committee on Broadcasting Act Reformoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2021
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 74: Heidi Tworek on the Challenges of Internet Platform Regulationoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2021
2020
17 Dec 2020
The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 18: The USMCA Trade Threat That Could Lead to Billions in Retaliatory Tariffsoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2020
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 73: The Broadcasting Act Blunder – Why Minister Guilbeault is Wrongoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2020
The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 16: Mandated Payments and a Reality Check on Guilbeault’s Billion Dollar Claimoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2020
The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 15: Mandated Confidential Data Disclosures May Keep Companies Out of Canadaoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2020
The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 14: The Risk to Canadian Ownership of Intellectual Propertyoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2020
The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 13: The “Regulate Everything” Approach – Targeting Individual Servicesoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2020
The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 12: The “Regulate Everything” Approach – The CRTC Conditionsoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2020
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 72: Emily Laidlaw on the Good, the Bad, and the Missed Opportunities Behind Canada’s Privacy Reformoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2020
The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 11: The “Regulate Everything” Approach – Licence or Registration Requiredoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2020
The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 10: Downgrading the Role of Canadians in their Own Programmingoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2020
1 Dec 2020
The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 9: Why Use Cross-Subsidies When the Government is Rolling Out Tech Tax Policies?original ↗
1 Dec 2020
30 Nov 2020
30 Nov 2020
uOttawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society: Towards a New Privacy Deal? Hot Takes from Privacy Experts on C-11original ↗
28 Nov 2020
27 Nov 2020
The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 6: The Beginning of the End of Canadian Broadcast Ownership and Control Requirementsoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2020
The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 5: The Narrow Exclusion of User Generated Content Servicesoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2020
24 Nov 2020
The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 3: Minister Guilbeault Says Bill C-10 Contains Economic Thresholds That Limit Internet Regulation. It Doesn’t.original ↗
23 Nov 2020
The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 2: What the Government Doesn’t Say About Creating a “Level Playing Field”original ↗
20 Nov 2020
18 Nov 2020
Canada’s GDPR Moment: Why the Consumer Privacy Protection Act is Canada’s Biggest Privacy Overhaul in Decadesoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2020
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 70: “It’s Massive Free Distribution” – Village Media’s Jeff Elgie on Why His Company Opposes Lobbying Efforts to Establish a Licence for Linking to News Storiesoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2020
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 69: Bram Abramson on the Government’s Plan to Regulate Internet Streaming Servicesoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2020
Cultural Uncertainty: A Closer Look at Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s Timeline For Internet Regulationoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2020
The Government’s Internet Regulation Bill: Why Bill C-10 Will Mean a CRTC-Approved Netflix Service, Reduced Consumer Choice, and Less Investment in Canadian Cultureoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2020
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 68: Mike Pal on What the Canadian Experience Teaches About the Intersection Between Election Law and the Internetoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2020
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s “Get Money from Web Giants” Internet Regulation Bill: An Unauthorized Backgrounderoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2020
What’s Another Way Supporters of Mandated Facebook Media Payments Promote Their Position? Paid Facebook Advertisingoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2020
Where is Canada’s News Media Lobby Promoting Its Link Licensing Plan for Facebook? On Facebookoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2020
The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 67: Tamir Israel on Facial Recognition Technologies at the Borderoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2020
Canadian News Media Lobby Group Calls for Creation of Government Digital Media Regulatory Agencyoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2020
How Can Linking to an Article be Immoral When the Media Source Itself Does the Posting, Part 2: A Day in the Life of the Toronto Star on Facebookoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2020
The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 66: Ann Cavoukian on Why Canadians Can Trust the COVID Alert Apporiginal ↗
19 Oct 2020
Forget Link Licensing and Cross-Subsidies: When it Comes to Tech, Canada Should be Focused on Competition Law and Tax Policyoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2020
15 Oct 2020
The Guilbeault Internet Plan: Leave it to the CRTC and Copyright Board of Canada to Get Money from Web Giantsoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2020
9 Oct 2020
What Happened to Canada’s Innovation Agenda?: How Innovation Policy Has Been Sidelined By Cultural Policies and Misplaced Provincial Prioritization of Patentsoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2020
Guilbeault’s Bogus Billion Dollar Claim: What the Data Actually Says About Canadian Film and TV Productionoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2020
“Get Money from Web Giants” Grows: Canadian Heritage Minister Guilbeault Says Government Working on a New Data Taxoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2020
An Anti-Digital Agenda: Forget the Digital Policy Reboot, the Government Just Hit Delete Insteadoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2020
“Get Money From Web Giants”: Why Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s Top Legislative Priority is Risky Businessoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2020
Weakening Net Neutrality: How the Government’s Internet Regulation Plan Abandons the Principle of Equal Treatment of Content Onlineoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2020
No Policies on Real Issues and Harmful Policies on Non-Issues: How the Government Bungled the Internet Regulation Fileoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2020
As Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault Plans Link Taxes and Internet Content Regulation, Where Is Navdeep Bains?original ↗
9 Sept 2020
Canadian Heritage Minister Guilbeault Says Social Media Sites Linking to News Content Without Payment is “Immoral”original ↗
8 Sept 2020
There Are Many Serious Concerns About Facebook. Why the Australia News Fight Isn’t One of Themoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2020
The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 65: My Ian Kerr Memorial Lecture – Privacy and Zambonis in the Age of COVID-19original ↗
24 Aug 2020
The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 64: “You’re Seeing the Breakup of the Web” – Anupam Chander on the Battle over TikTokoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2020
The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 63: Ontario Privacy Commissioner Patricia Kosseim on the COVID Alert Apporiginal ↗
10 Aug 2020
CIFAR: Governance, Tech and the Pandemic – Carly Kind, Michael Geist & Rebecca Finlay – CIFAR Virtual Talkoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2020
The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 62: Colin Bennett on What the Schrems II Decision Means for Global Data Transfers and Canadian Privacy Laworiginal ↗
4 Aug 2020
A Quarter-Billion Dollar Bag of Beans: Responding to Ken Whyte’s Attack on Library Book Loansoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2020
The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 61: Senator James Cowan on the Extraordinary Battle for a Genetic Anti-Discrimination Law in Canadaoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2020
The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 60: Alberta Privacy Commissioner Jill Clayton on the ABTraceTogether Contact Tracing Apporiginal ↗
20 Jul 2020
The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 59: “It’s a Racist Policy” – Ben Cashdan on the U.S. Effort to Derail South Africa’s Copyright Reformoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2020
The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 58: “An Earth Shattering Decision” – Marina Pavlovic on the Supreme Court of Canada’s Uber v. Heller Rulingoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2020
The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 57: Julia Reda on What Canada Should Learn from the European Battle over a Copyright Link Taxoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2020
23 Jun 2020
The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 56: Eloïse Gratton on Quebec’s Plan to Overhaul its Privacy Laworiginal ↗
22 Jun 2020
15 Jun 2020
11 Jun 2020
CASL is Constitutional: Federal Court of Appeal Upholds Constitutionality of Canada’s Anti-Spam Laworiginal ↗
8 Jun 2020
The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 54: Eric Goldman on Internet Platform Liability and the Trump Executive Orderoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2020
No Opinions Permitted: Broadcast Panel Rules Jokingly Criticizing Canadian Content During Radio News Segment Violates Code of Ethicsoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2020
The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 53: Welcome Development or Waste of Time? – A Conversation With Facebook Oversight Board Member Nicolas Suzororiginal ↗
1 Jun 2020
Why the USMCA Locks in the Internet Platform Liability System in the U.S., Canada and Mexicooriginal ↗
29 May 2020
The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 52: Fair Dealing for Film Makers – Bob Tarantino on the Copyright Implications of the Room Full of Spoons Caseoriginal ↗
25 May 2020
21 May 2020
The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 51: Canada’s Urban-Rural Broadband Divide – Josh Tabish on CIRA’s Internet Performance Dataoriginal ↗
19 May 2020