The most recent controversy around Wikipedia, and there are plenty to come I’m sure, surrounds Ron Livingston, an actor in Office Space who starred briefly in Sex in the City. Well it’s Livingston’s sex, or…
Media aren’t the best friends of human rights Max Yalden was an Official Languages Commissioner in 1977-84 and the head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission in 1987-96. Recalling the Maclean’s case and other contentious…
A recent case illustrates that American jurisprudence is increasingly coalescing around a uniform approach to determine whether a plaintiff may compel the disclosure of an anonymous defendant’s identity in internet defamation cases. As discussed below,…
Paper fights to shield its source Tonda MacCharles writes for the Toronto Star: The constitutional guarantee of a free press is “meaningless” if it does not protect journalists from being forced to reveal the identity…
Today, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued new guidelines for bloggers who accept payment or free merchandise in exchange for product reviews. The new guidelines will require bloggers to disclose any material connections with…
| Guest Post By Huma Rashid | Originally posted at Social Media Law Student Only this time, it’s a clash between the political and the cultural. Pop-cultural, to be exact. Twitter, as everyone who reads…
If you’re just starting law school, law blawgs can be your best friend. In addition to this site, here are 99 other blog posts that you should read to help prepare for your adventure. It…
In the high profile case between Marc Lemire and Richard Warman, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has refused to apply s. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which stated that hate messages also affected,…
Devon Moore of the Daily Kos features what he calls, a cesspool of some of the most vile hatred and misinformation on the internet… They range from academics such as Daniel Pipes, self-declared scholars like…
A triumphant Jennifer Stoddart, Canada’s Privacy Commissioner came out this morning and said that Facebook agreed to make changes to its privacy policy within a year. The following changes are being touted: Denying third-party application…
I agree with Simon Chester, Borat was a “silly film.” The real country of Kazakhstan is making headlines, and few people online are laughing. The parliament in that country has approved a new law that…
In a previous post I erroneously stated that the appeal of Canwest Mediaworks Publications v. Horizon Publications had been dropped.  As it turns out, the appeal is pending; the game is on. Those who wish…
