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The Digital Age of Journalism: My Placement at “The Globe and Mail”

IPilogue

Publishing is, of course, one of the core copyright industries – if not the core industry historically associated with copyright. IP law in publishing, especially at The Globe – who is known for being an early provider of digital media and device-agnostic content delivery – goes far beyond copyright infringement and litigation.

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Announcing the 2021 Edition of My Internet Law Casebook

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The book is available as a PDF at Gumroad for $10, as a Kindle ebook for $9.99, and in hard copy at Amazon for $20. The hard copy comes with a free PDF on request; and shipping should be free on Amazon Prime.] For my thoughts about self-publishing an ebook casebook, see this article. I added a major note on the Van Buren v.

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Meta to Test Blocking News Sharing on Facebook and Instagram in Canada in Response to Bill C-18’s Mandated Payments for Links

Michael Geist

The Globe and Mail told the Senate this week it could result in millions in lost revenues, while others advised that somewhere between 17-30% of their traffic comes from social media such as Facebook. Given ongoing concerns with privacy and other issues, there are unsurprisingly few fans of Facebook right now.

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A Child’s Right to be Forgotten

IPilogue

This article was originally published online on 28 March 2022 on New Internationalist and will be included in their March-April 2022 publication. Her privacy has been repeatedly invaded by complete strangers since childhood. Soon after, it was published in a French medical journal, along with her full name and medical details.

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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Nepal

IP and Legal Filings

The Nepal Privacy Act was passed in September 2018. The Privacy Act, which implemented the constitutional right to privacy, had a big influence on how personal information was used legally. It also penalizes offences such as cyber terrorism, publishing/display of obscene materials, acts against morality etc., Conclusion.

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Google Should Ban Pirate Sites, Say Authors John Grisham & Scott Turow

TorrentFreak

In 2020, Amazon teamed up with publisher Penguin Random House and authors including John Grisham, Scott Turow and Lee Child to sue several pirate ‘Kiss Library’ eBook sites operating out of Ukraine. As a result, authors and the publishing industry as a whole hemorrhage large amounts of revenue each year,” they write.

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Yearbook Defendants Lose Two More Section 230 Rulings

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

2021 has seen the emergence of a litigation genre against “yearbook” database vendors that publish old yearbooks online. In particular, they are having some success bending Section 230, and this genre offers some interesting considerations for folks paying attention to the privacy/230 borders. Ancestry , Knapke v.