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News of the Week; March 4, 2020

COMMUNICATIONS Ontario’s Record Breaking, Multi-Billion Dollar Film Production Year: “A Healthy Balance Between Domestic and Foreign Production” (Michael Geist) The CUSMA Culture Poison Pill: Why the Broadcast Panel Report Could Lead to Millions in Tariff Retaliation (Michael Geist) Clarence Thomas Regrets Brand X Decision That Paved Way For The Net Neutrality Wars FCC issues wrist-slap […]

Group Presentation: Net Neutrality

Hello Class! Eunize, Steven, Tessa and myself will be presenting this week on “Net Neutrality.” Please find below brief summaries of the various parts of our presentation, as well as some links to background readings and videos. 1) What is Net Neutrality? Net neutrality is the idea that internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all […]

Ever thought of a career outside of Law? – How to Make Billions! (NO CLICKBAIT)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/18/magazine/esports-business.html If you ever thought that being a lawyer was going to pay well, you should drop out now and become a professional gamer (if you’re good a video games). All jokes aside, I learned a lot about Esports during Jon’s Video Game Law class (I wrote my 25 page paper on Esports). Esports is […]

Twitter puts ‘manipulated’ tag on faked Biden video retweeted by Trump

Following through with its promises to deliver on media manipulation, Twitter, for the first time, tagged a recent post by President Trump as manipulated. Twitter’s policies on manipulated media went into effect on March 5th and this instance is believed to be the first time the company has applied the “manipulated media” tag (see screenshot […]