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29 Oct

The limits of web speech

CommentaryThe courts are coming to grips with chat on the Internet, says BBC News Online columnist Bill Thompson. People who post anonymous comments on websites be warned — you can […]

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26 Sep

Wanted: Libel law for the digital age

CommentaryA libel suit filed against Mumsnet, a community website where women offer one another advice, support and friendship, underlines the need for a libel law that reflects the reality of […]

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3 May

Libel suits put online free speech at risk

CommentaryA pair of recently filed defamation suits have the potential to reshape free speech on the Internet in Canada, Internet law expert Michael Geist warns in this Ottawa Citizen commentary […]

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7 Mar

Cyber libel and Canada’s courts

AnalysisRoger McConchie, a Vancouver lawyer who specializes in libel and privacy issues, has compiled detailed summaries of Canadian court rulings on Internet libel.

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7 Mar

Libel-tourism suffers setback in Canada

CommentaryThe Supreme Court of Canada has denied leave to appeal from the Ontario Court of Appeal decision in the case of Bangoura v. Washington Post. The decision finally decides that […]

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7 Mar

New Brunswick’s amateur journalist

FeatureCharles LeBlanc fights for bloggers to share press privileges– and rights. Vanessa Green, writing in the King’s Journalism Review, explores how the Internet is changing the definition of journalist.

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31 Dec

Unruly Internet blogs spark rise in libel cases

FeatureThe rapid rise of amateur commentators mounting the soapbox of Internet blogs has led to a small, but growing number of online libel cases. Shannon Proudfoot, CanWest News Service, reports.

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30 Dec

Internet media law 101

Online defamation Posting a libellous statement on a website or to a newsgroup or listserv carries the same risk of legal action as publishing it in a newspaper or broadcasting […]

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26 Dec

Canadian libel law chills free speech on Internet

CommentaryCanadian Internet service providers need protection from libel suits sparked by web postings, argues Internet law expert Michael Geist.

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26 Dec

Pssst … try the back door to cyberspace

FeatureOn the frontiers of human rights and technology, Julia Belluz writes in the Ryerson Review of Journalism, outspoken nerds fight to free the flow of information on the web.

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