Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

JUNE 10, 2020

We live in the digital age of smartphones and social media, where the large scale capturing and sharing of photographs has become a global run-of-the-mill form of communication and expression. The rights in these photographs are typically subject to the licensing schemes of the various social media platforms to which they are posted. This is because the authors of these works, the photographers, own copyright in the images they create.

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GDB Firm Blog

JUNE 11, 2020

One result of COVID-19 — the price gouging of health, safety and welfare supplies — has caught the attention of lawmakers in New York. Existing law prohibits price gouging "during periods of abnormal disruption in the market" with respect to consumer goods "bought or rendered primarily for personal, family or household purposes." An amendment that became law last week extends the anti-price gouging mandate to medical supplies and services that are essential for "the care, cur

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GDB Firm Blog

JUNE 8, 2020

On Friday, June 5, the President signed the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Flexibility Act, which made significant changes in the PPP as it had been initially enacted on March 27, 2020. These FAQs, divided into 5 separate subject matter areas, represent our answers, based upon the current state of the law, to questions we have been asked by clients and by over 2000 participants in webinars we have given on the Paycheck Protection Program in the past 2 months.

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GDB Firm Blog

JUNE 9, 2020

?In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the New York City Council has passed legislation that gives significant relief to restaurant owners.

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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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