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News of the Week; May 8, 2019

COMMUNICATIONS   CRTC Issues Its First Penalty Against a CEO for Violating Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation  CRTC ups the CASL liability ante for directors and officers  More Than 100 CNN Staffers Take Buyouts as AT&T Pares Debt CMS Finalizes Rule Requiring Disclosure of Drug Prices in TV Ads  Verizon Media Said to Be Looking for Tumblr […]

News of the Week; May 1, 2019

COMMUNICATIONS  SCC decision could focus on CRTC’s reach Anti-spam laws are overreaching, say lawyers  Of Course Wireless Carriers Are Fighting a Bill That Stops Them From Throttling Firefighters’ Data  Verizon Media Unveils Augmented Reality News Partner Program, 5G Tech At NewFronts AT&T Settles Lawsuit Over ‘Fake 5G,’ Won’t Change A Thing Ajit Pai-proposed upgrade to […]

“To Regulate or Not to Regulate?”: Some final (personal) thoughts.

For the past two academic years, the base theme of Communications Law was “To Regulate or Not to Regulate”. At first the question was really just a useful way to “sharpen the saw” (apologies to Stephen Covey), allowing space for the possible self-renewal of communications law through a unified theory (apologies to Albert Einstein) that […]