Jon Festinger
News of the Week; March 11, 2020
COMMUNICATIONS The Cancon Conundrum: Why Policies to Promote “Canadian Stories” Need an Overhaul (Michael Geist) Bains’ Other Wireless Affordability Problem: The Broadcast Panel Plan for WhatsApp, Skype and Other Internet Services to Pay Canadian Broadband Taxes (Michael Geist) A CRTC Without the West: Why an MP Is Calling a Broadcast Panel Recommendation “Discriminatory” and Warning […]
Interesting Follow up – Clearview AI and Facial Recognition Technology
Hi Everyone, Further to our presentation on facial recognition technology yesterday and specifically, our focussed discussion on law enforcement’s use of Clearview AI, I just wanted to share the following article. Despite their insistence that Clearview AI is intended for the sole use of supporting law enforcement personnel and a few select private security companies, […]
Justin Bieber, US Copyright Litigation & Music Sampling Libraries
I listened to a super interesting podcast last week about sample libraries in popular music that I thought I would share as it is an interesting combination of issues to do with copyright and pop music – alongside a little twitter feud. In February 2020, Justin Bieber released his newest album “Changes” and shortly after […]
When online fundraising goes wrong…
Many of you would have heard about the devastating bushfires in Australia earlier this year, which sparked an influx of donations, including $150 million alone being donated to the Australian Red Cross. Many of these donations were collected through ‘Big Tech’ with companies like Apple, Google and even the Call of Duty game, providing ways […]
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 […]
Geofence Warrants
A recent news article from Gainesville, Florida has brought additional scrutiny onto the practice of geofence warrants. Geofence warrants allow police departments to compel google to provide them with anonymized Google location data from anyone with a geographic radius within a a select window of time around the occurrence of a crime. If after reviewing […]
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