May 13, 2010


Fasken Martineau - 42 Calvin/Riddell
66 Wellington St W, Suite 4200
Toronto Dominion Bank Tower
Toronto, ON, Canada

Event participants:

Christian Leblanc, J. Aidan O'Neill, Leslie J. Milton

With the incredible growth of the Internet over the last ten years, the Canadian legal system has been desperately trying to catch up with all of the technological advances that have occurred. Our daily newspapers and media outlets regularly report on the attempts made by the legislative and regulatory authorities to bring "order" to the Internet in Canada and to regulate what is often observed to be unregulatable.

Fasken Martineau's Communications Group is front and centre on these important legal and regulatory issues. Three members of our national practice group - Christian Leblanc from Montréal, and Leslie Milton and Aidan O'Neill from Ottawa - will conduct a wide-ranging seminar to review recent and current topics of interest relating to the regulation of the Internet. These topics will include defamation and libel issues, the growth of, and concerns raised by, social media, CRTC regulation and privacy, proposed anti-spam legislation, the distribution of music on the Internet, and likely amendments to Canada's Copyright Act to better reflect the new digital age. These amendments will include the so-called "making available" right for performers and makers of sound recordings, as well as the exemption from copyright liability for Internet Service Providers.

This seminar will be of interest to anyone who wants to have a better understanding of the limits that are either currently imposed, or likely soon will be, on the operation of the Internet in Canada.

Agenda:

• 8:00 am - 8:30 am   Registration and Breakfast
• 8:30 am - 10:00 am Presentation and Q&A

RSVP:

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For more information:

Allison Cary
416 868 3511