blog.davidlam.ca
David Lam Law Blog: July 2012
http://blog.davidlam.ca/2012_07_01_archive.html
Saturday, July 07, 2012. New fee to play recorded music at parties. It'll be up to the event organizers to self-report and pay the royalty on their own initiative. If you have a wedding this summer, be sure to ask your event organizer whether or not these new tariffs apply to you. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Welcome to my blog, where I write about various interesting legal issues in Canada. For more information, visit http:/ www.davidlam.ca. RIM sues Kik for patent infringement. RIM v Kik part 2.
blog.davidlam.ca
David Lam Law Blog: Are emails at work confidential or privileged?
http://blog.davidlam.ca/2012/09/are-emails-at-work-confidential-or.html
Monday, September 10, 2012. Are emails at work confidential or privileged? A reader wondered about communicating with her lawyer from work. In particular, she wondered if such communications are confidential or privileged. Generally, communications between a client and her lawyer are subject to solicitor-client privilege, and may not be revealed in court. And please remember to make sure the personal smartphone is using your cellular provider's network, and not the employer's wifi network. For more infor...
blog.davidlam.ca
David Lam Law Blog: December 2014
http://blog.davidlam.ca/2014_12_01_archive.html
Thursday, December 11, 2014. Police can search smartphone without a warrant on arrest. Smartphones today hold our entire digital lives. Not only do they hold our intimate emails and text messages, but much more importantly our smartphones also contains apps such as Dropbox and OneDrive which are already logged in and allows access to a treasure trove of our most personal files in the cloud. What happens when the police get a hold of our smartphone? The Supreme Court wrote at at para 51:. Computers —...
blog.davidlam.ca
David Lam Law Blog: March 2012
http://blog.davidlam.ca/2012_03_01_archive.html
Wednesday, March 28, 2012. Trademarking a sound in Canada. Great news for marketers, as starting today, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office will accept trademark applications for a mark consisting of a sound. This means that previously unprotected marketing materials such as jingles, vocal slogans, and song snippets that are used to identify with a brand can now be under trademark protection in Canada. To register a sound mark, the application for the registration of a trade-mark should:.
blog.davidlam.ca
David Lam Law Blog: Colbert and Stewart: Copyright fair dealing
http://blog.davidlam.ca/2012/06/colbert-and-stewart-copyright-fair.html
Friday, June 08, 2012. Similar to fair use in the US, under the fair dealing provisions of the Canadian. The second step, whether the dealing is fair, depends on the facts of each case. In. The Supreme Court of Canada set out six non-exhaustive factors to determine whether a dealing is “fair”:. The purpose of the dealing;. The character of the dealing;. The amount of the dealing;. Alternatives to the dealing;. The nature of the work; and. The effect of the dealing on the work. RIM v Kik part 2.
blog.davidlam.ca
David Lam Law Blog: May 2012
http://blog.davidlam.ca/2012_05_01_archive.html
Friday, May 25, 2012. For the last 16 years, Claude Robinson has been fighting television giant Cinar in Quebec court, alleging that. An animated television series from Quebec, was plagiarized from. An earlier work by Claude Robinson. In 2009, the Quebec Superior Court. In the link above. Cinar was ordered to pay more than $5.2 million in damages, including $1 million in punitive damages. Cinar appealed. In 2011, the Quebec Court of Appeal held. Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Canada. RIM v Kik part 2.
blog.davidlam.ca
David Lam Law Blog: June 2013
http://blog.davidlam.ca/2013_06_01_archive.html
Monday, June 03, 2013. Don't sign a new cell phone contract until Dec 2, 2013. In a consumer-friendly move, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) released some new rules today governing new cell phone contracts. The new rules will apply to new cell phone contracts that start on December 2, 2013. In particular, the new rules:. Allow consumers to terminate their cell phone contracts after 2 years without cancellation fees, even if they have signed on for a longer term.
blog.davidlam.ca
David Lam Law Blog: RIM v. Kik part 2
http://blog.davidlam.ca/2010/12/rim-v-kik-part-2.html
Wednesday, December 01, 2010. RIM v Kik part 2. RIM launched a suit against Kik Interactive for patent infringement. I just had a look at the statement of claim ( available here. And it looks like there's more to the story than simply patent infringement. Not only does RIM allege that Kik infringed the following Canadian Patents:. Thursday, December 02, 2010 10:42:00 AM. Also missing is the fact that several other applications mimic RIMs BBM service, notably PingChat. They have not been removed from ...
blog.davidlam.ca
David Lam Law Blog: February 2012
http://blog.davidlam.ca/2012_02_01_archive.html
Wednesday, February 01, 2012. Ontario court confirms new privacy tort. Earlier this year, the Ontario Court of Appeal in Jones v. Tsige. 2012 ONCA 32 confirmed the existence of a new tort of privacy, a cause of “action for intrusion upon seclusion”:. One who intentionally intrudes, physically or otherwise, upon the seclusion of another or his private affairs or concerns, is subject to liability to the other for invasion of his privacy, if the invasion would be highly offensive to a reasonable person.