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George C. Eyre, Law Offices provides practical advice and legal solutions to start-ups, consultants and to companies in the I/T, multimedia and other areas. We register and prosecute Canadian Trade Marks and assist our clients with protection around the globe. George C. Eyre, B. Math., L.L.B., M.Eng. is an ex-computer consultant who had ten years experience in the computer field with companies such as Bell Canada and I.B.M. ( New York ) before returning to law school to become a computer lawyer.
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On Dec. 6, 2011, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada launched new guidelines
On Dec. 6, 2011, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada launched new guidelines under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, PIPEDA for online behavioral advertising i.e. tracking users’ online activities in order to deliver targeted advertisements that are based on past activities and interests. There is a battle between web site owners desire to make increase revenue from personal information (PI) and privacy.
BC Supreme Court on Enforceability of Browsewrap Agreements such as Terms of Use & Copyright
In Century 21 Canada Limited Partnership v. Rogers Communications Inc., 2011 BCSC 1196 the BCSC heard allegations by Century 21 that Roger’s subsidiary Zoocasa improperly scraped content from Century 21′s online real estate listings. The Judge: 1. held that the Terms of Use was enforceable and was breached; 2. awarded statutory damages for copyright infringement for the individual plaintiffs, and 3. dismissed the claim for trespass against chattels on the basis that only Century 21’s hosting service had possessory interest in the servers hosting its website and they were not a party to the action.
The Supreme Court of Canada Rules on when linking to defamatory statements is defamatory.The Supreme Court of Canada recently held that linking to someone else’s website does not |
- Trade-mark and brand owners have until October 28, 2011 to block domains on .xxx top level domain:
- eHarmony decision provides insight into how web sites with accounts that contain personal information should handle the deactivation and deletion of accounts.
- E-Business Technology, Security & Privacy Trends at Managing Privacy Compliance (Federated Press)
- Canada’s New Anti-Spam Act