Articles 2021

When the police obtain production orders to seize journalists' raw materials are they going too far? Vice Media thinks so and is challenging a production order to seize its journalist's communications.

Layth Gafoor and Blessing Gana share their experiences on the importance of networking as mentor and mentee in entertainment law.

Who wants faster Internet access? Probably everybody, and almost certainly anybody who streams television shows, videoconferences, or uses other bandwidth intensive applications. The questions that telecommunications companies, the CRTC, and Cabinet are grappling with are how to deliver it, who should deliver it, and who should pay for it.

In September 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled to allow libraries to digitize and distribute books to reading terminals without a digitization licence.

When a judge explicitly finds that your libel case is “more about “ego” and “turf warfare” than about reputation …..then you know you’ve got a hard road to hoe. In that spirit, the Superior Court of Ontario's recent decision in Bernstein v. Poon (2015 ONSC 155) is a lesson to all plaintiff-side counsel on the evidence required to bring a successful defamation claim.

A recap of the most recent EMC program, Recent Developments in Copyright, Digital Music Delivery and Endorsement Deals.

It's bound to be an exciting summer not only for the Liberal Party of Canada, but also for defamation law: in the space of two weeks, the Grits initiated not one, but two high-profile defamation actions. Putting aside politics, each action offers to Ontario courts an opportunity to engage with the concept of “reputation” in modern Canadian society. In this article, Mark A.B. Donald discusses how these two actions might further define how "reputation" impacts the law of defamation.

Piera Savage, 2L Osgoode law student and aspiring entertainment lawyer, shares how our Holiday Social provided her with career insights, a respite from a tough exam study schedule, and a great night out.

What's keeping bloggers and online news editors up at night? The question of whether they are legally liable for third-party content posted on their websites. In this paper, lawyer Mark Donald discusses the issue of defamation and cyberlibel in Canada and the U.S.