Michael Geist

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Yesterday I was a guest on a Toronto-area radio station where I was asked to discuss the government’s plans to more than double the amount available per journalist as part of the labour journalism tax credit. After a discussion of the tax credit program and months of blocked news links on Facebook as a consequence of Bill C-18, the host shifted the discussion by suggesting that the media had largely become propaganda on behalf of the government, insisting that these measures were consistent with

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Barry Sookman

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

A private members Bill introduced into the UK House of Lords entitled the Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill [HL] is an example of a model agile law to regulate AI. It may provide a roadmap as to how to improve AIDA, a draft law that is part of Bill C-27 and widely acknowledged to be flawed. Like AIDA, it permits a Minister, the Secretary of State, to enact regulations to govern AI systems.

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The Illusion of More

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

During Thanksgiving break 2013, when this blog was still new, I wrote a post in response to the techno-exceptionalism expressed by then Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and co-author Jared Cohen. Drawing parallels to the mythology of the Puritan adventure to North America, I found fault—as I still do—with the blind faith we were asked to […] The post A Techno-Realist Response to the Techno-Optimist Manifesto appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

News that Sky had won a new High Court injunction to tackle pirate IPTV services first appeared in the Financial Times on July 30, 2023. The article outlined an injunction similar to those previously obtained by the Premier League, noting that ISPs would be compelled to block Sky’s “best selling football games and blockbuster TV shows.” Why Sky would go to the trouble of obtaining an injunction to block access to matches, already being blocked by the Premier League, still makes

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Likelihood of Confusion

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Evan Brown reports on a failed attempt to utilize the affirmative defense of “copyright misuse” as an independent cause of action. Originally posted 2011-12-05 10:40:51. Republished by Blog Post Promoter The post Defense not the best offense appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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