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News of the Week; June 5, 2019

COMMUNICATIONS SCC decision highlights tension between access to justice and party autonomy: Gives clarity around arbitration clauses Cogeco Warns Against Online Video Services Undermining Canadian Sovereignty in BTLR Submission (Michael Geist) The Trouble with Trebles: Fourth Circuit Upholds Record $61 Million Vendor Liability Verdict in TCPA Class Action If ‘Big Tech’ Is a Huge Antitrust […]

“Regulation & Blockchain”: Presentation at the 3rd Annual BlockChain@UBC Summer Institute

Blockchain has not been an ever-present subject in Communications Law. That said the subject has certainly come up on a reasonably regular basis in the context of the course over the years. Personally, the jury is mostly still out for me on whether blockchain is merely a proposed answer to questions few if any are […]

News of the Week; May 29, 2019

COMMUNICATIONS No Mandated Netflix Cancon Payments: Shaw Argues Success Lies in More Regulatory Flexibility in BTLR Submission (Michael Geist) Self-Serving in the Extreme: Bell’s Broadcast and Telecom Submission to the BTLR Revealed (Michael Geist) Ajit Pai May Have Lied To Congress About FCC’s Failure To Address Wireless Location Data Scandals If Facebook’s Privacy Practices Anger […]