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James Gannon is a lawyer at the firm McCarthy Tétrault. The views expressed here are his own.
Category Archives: Notice-and-notice
Canadian Hosting Provider Cites Weak Copyright Law to Attract Pirate Websites
Posted by on January 4, 2012
There has been a lot of press lately in the U.S. about their proposed IP enforcement law, the Stop Online Piracy Act (“SOPA”). As I previously noted, when creator groups were asked which websites they intended to target with SOPA’s site-blocking provisions, the groups were clear that legitimate online businesses would be unaffected by the [...]
U.S. Copyright Alert System: What About Cyberlockers?
Posted by on July 14, 2011
The news last week of the framework agreement between the major U.S. ISPs and movie/recording studios was generally well received by bloggers and the media. However, many commentators such as Nate Andersen of Ars Technica have pointed out that a good portion of infringing activity may still go undetected under the agreement as “infringement has already begun its [...]
Notice and Notice: Rogers’ Numbers Don’t Add Up
Posted by on March 29, 2011
Last week, representatives from Telus Communications, Rogers Communications and Bell Canada testified in what became the penultimate hearing of the Bill C-32 Parliamentary Committee . The hearing focussed on evidence from the ISPs on the effectiveness of the notice-and-notice system (N&N), which would have been codified in Bill C-32. Only one of the ISPs, Rogers, [...]
