Michael Geist

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Earlier this year, the government deployed disturbing anti-democratic tactics by repeatedly cutting off debate on Bill C-11 in both the House of Commons and during clause-by-clause review of the bill. Who is the government blocking from potentially appearing by shutting down committee hearings?

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

The emergence of social networking sites has presented new difficulties for the government in defending the owners’ copyrights. The need for copyright regulations governing social networking sites has been recognised by the political community in recent years.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This is the question the European Parliament addresses for the first time in its Resolution on policy implications of the development of virtual worlds – civil, company commercial and intellectual property law issues, published on October 17, 2024, in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 29, 2023

But it is the government and Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez that must face the blame for having badly blundered this file. The government regularly pointed to the Australian experience as evidence that it would emerge with a win for the sector.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As we reported earlier this month , Gleeson’s downfall began in late October when he published a piece entitled Power and Palaszczuk in the Courier-Mail The piece was an unflattering 12-page “special investigation” into the government of Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, and her government. Bottom Line.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Yet the bill is so broad that it covers content far beyond the journalism that the government purportedly seeks to support. For example, there is no reference to journalism (professional or otherwise), suggesting that the bill could be used by bloggers or almost anyone reporting on content involving events of public interest. .”

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Michael Geist

MAY 6, 2023

Indeed, these resolutions are only the latest in a series of legislative and policy measures in which the government and the governing party have become increasingly comfortable with speech regulation that raises serious constitutional concerns. I don’t know what else to say other than this feels like uncharted territory. It must stop.

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Michael Geist

MARCH 17, 2023

The government plans to introduce a motion next week requiring Google and Facebook to turn over years of private third-party communication involving any Canadian regulation. Note that this approach is only aimed at those that criticize government legislation. That isn’t intimidation or subversion.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 12, 2024

Late last month, I wrote about the behind-the-scenes battle over the selection of a collective to administer and allocate Google’s annual $100 million to news outlets as part of its Bill C-18 deal with the government. To the surprise of many, last week Google selected the Canadian Journalism Collective.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 2, 2022

When the government first created new tax supports for Canadian journalism, it created the concept of the Qualifying Canadian Journalism Organization (QCJO). I’ve written about QCJO status in the past , which requires that organizations be Canadian, produce general interest news, and meet certain journalism standards.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 16, 2024

“Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of the State government.” ~ Jim Costa The statement above elucidates succinctly that how tribes of India get treated within our nation. which need to be protected, are all at the mercy of the ruling governments. percent of the total population of Madhya Pradesh.

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 15, 2022

While I don’t think any of these results are particularly surprising (and concern about misinformation should be heartening), the government and supporters of Bill C-18 reacted with alarm. There is room for reasoned debate around these issues, but the government and Bill C-18 supporters don’t want to have that conversation.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In July 2021, the Government of Canada launched a consultation on Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and the Internet of Things (“IoT”). Moreover, TDM plays a role in scholarly and commercial research, education, and journalism. Background. The submissions are divided into the categories of AI policy reform and IoT policy reform.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 18, 2023

Twitter and the CBC were in the spotlight yesterday with Twitter’s decision to add a “government funded media” label to the CBC Twitter account. CBC responded by tweeting it would pause its Twitter activities because suggesting that its journalism was anything other than impartial and independent was untrue.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Finally today, Anne Steele at the Wall Street Journal reports that music publishers and streaming services are once again heading to the Copyright Royalty Board in a bid to try and establish favorable royalty rates for the next few years. 3: Music Publishers Propose Higher Streaming Payments.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It turns out that the government believes that vastly overstates the benefit as its own modelling estimates about $150 million in total revenues, less than the 50% of the PBO’s estimate. In fact, as the government has expanded the eligibility to hundreds of additional outlets, the benefits for each organization shrinks even further.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 23, 2024

We are pleased to announce that Gujrat National Law University, Gandhinagar is inviting submissions for its Journal of Law and Technology (ISSN: 3048-9989 (Print)) on rolling basis. The Journal hereby calls for articles, short notes, book reviews, case and legislative analysis. Co-authorship is allowed to a maximum of 2 authors.

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Michael Geist

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The government has seemingly tried to ignore those startups with Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez talking about 400+ news outlet closures since 2008, but neglecting to refer to the hundreds of new outlets that have sprung up during the same period. Journalism organizations have codes of conduct that they follow.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The series continues by highlighting the remarkable extent to which the government and its regulator (the CRTC) intervene in the news sector, an approach that creates significant risks to an independent press. Yet the reality is Bill C-18 features an unprecedented level of government intervention into the market in the news sector.

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Michael Geist

MAY 9, 2023

Yet it was the greed of hoping for bigger deals based on link payments – not new revenues for smaller publishers, many of whom did not want this legislation – that led to the group to bet that the government could force the Internet platforms to pay for linking.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Unlike the standards established under the Income Tax Act which govern Qualified Canadian Journalism Organizations (QCJO) and which feature multiple criteria to ensure that only organizations producing journalism are covered, Bill C-18 applies to broadcasters that may not face any requirements to produce news.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

While the government is still talking tough, the law has been an utter disaster, leading to millions in lost revenues with cancelled deals, reduced traffic for Canadian media sites, declining investment in media in Canada, and few options to salvage this mess. The group is seeking government tax credits equal to 35% of labour costs.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2025

This brings us to the discussion of their personality rights, which confer upon an individual the exclusive right to govern how their persona is depicted in the public domain, particularly for commercial purposes. 2] Rajat Sharma v M/s Independent News Service Pvt Ltd, Delhi High Court, [2024][link] 16 January 2025. [3] 10] Ibid. [11]

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Michael Geist

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The study into the Online News Act continues this week as the government and Bill C-18 supporters continue to insist that the bill does not involve payment for links. The government not only knows that Bill C-18 involves payments for links, but it also knows that the arguments regarding value for those links are exceptionally weak.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The government released its draft Bill C-18 regulations on Friday ahead of the Labour Day weekend, but ironically those regulations do very little to ensure that new funding will be allocated toward employing journalists.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JULY 14, 2022

Principals Kelly Allenspach Del Dotto and Bailey Benedict have been named recipients of the 2022 “Women Worth Watching in STEM” award by Profiles in Diversity Journal. Profiles in Diversity Journal is dedicated to promoting and advancing diversity and inclusion in the corporate, government, nonprofit, higher education, and military sectors.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 10, 2022

We’re pleased to inform you that the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University (NLU), Delhi is inviting applications for Community Engagement and Strategic Development positions at the Centre. About the Centre for Communication Governance. For details, please read the announcement below.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 20, 2025

Follow-up measures taken by governments and organizations around the world directly affected the lives of billions of people. A paper titled “Digital piracy in times of Covid19” was published in the most recent issue of the Journal of Cultural Economics.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JUNE 23, 2021

and Nicole Williams have been named recipients of the 2021 “Women Worth Watching in STEM” award by Profiles in Diversity Journal. Profiles in Diversity Journal is dedicated to promoting and advancing diversity and inclusion in the corporate, government, nonprofit, higher education, and military sectors. Flanagan, Ph.D.

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Michael Geist

JULY 5, 2023

Meta and Google both expressed concern with the Bill C-18 approach of mandated payments for links from day one, but floated their willingness to support the media sector with different policy approaches such as contributions to a journalism fund. Why were the other models that would have directly supported journalism rejected?

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 3, 2022

The podcast did provide citations for the episode, including five articles, two Wikipedia entries and a government document. Podcasts aren’t the academy and they aren’t journalism which are the only two areas anybody cares about plagiarism. /2 [link] — Chilluminati Podcast (@ChilluminatiPod) July 28, 2022.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

gov’t will always support quality, fact-based and local Canadian journalism in a fair digital marketplace. As government officials have acknowledged , the entire foundation of the bill is based on paying for links. — Lisa Hepfner (@lisahepfner) December 14, 2022.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 28, 2023

Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has amply demonstrated that there is no Plan B, offering up the prospect of further dependence on government through more public spending to mitigate the harms from his massive miscalculations. At the top of the list is the emerging Bill C-18 disaster. The company and the data said otherwise.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 8, 2023

Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez appeared last night before the Senate committee studying Bill C-18, facing repeated questions about how his government will respond if Internet platforms such as Facebook block news sharing in response to bill’s system of mandated payments for links. This just isn’t true. How to reconcile?

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Michael Geist

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge’s deal with Google on Bill C-18 for an annual $100 million contribution has sparked some unsurprising crowing from partisans who insist the fears that the government had mishandled the Online News Act failed to recognize a well-executed negotiation strategy. In fact, so did the government.

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Michael Geist

JULY 17, 2023

The Online News Act has continued to create a political firestorm this summer with a legislative battle that leaves the future of some Canadian news organizations stuck in the middle between sabre rattling from the government and Internet platforms. He’s worked at the CBC and the Globe and Mail, where he won two National Newspaper Awards.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While the US policy differs from Plan S in that it purports to be “agnostic” toward business models, the end result, the flipping of hybrid/subscription journals to fully-OA, may be the same. In a similar vein, the vague economic analysis in the OSTP memo contains the following statement: “Libraries pay for journal subscriptions.

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