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Audiogalaxy.com and owner Michael Merhej have settled the claims by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) that Audiogalaxy and Mr. Merhej were guilty of vicarious and contributory copyright infringement in allowing copyrighted materials to be exchanged over their peer-to-peer file exchange web service. Unlike Napster, the Audiogalaxy site allows filtering of materials to prevent infringement. Until now, this feature was largely unused.

The State of California has fined a Los Angeles pharmacy and its principals $88.7 million(U.S.) for violating a law that makes it illegal for Internet based pharmacies to fill prescriptions for patients without a proper examination by a licensed physician.

Analysts estimate that up to 8 percent of all international long-distance calls are made using the Internet. State controlled telecommunications companies around the world feel threatened by this popularity to the extent that more than a dozen countries have banned the practice.

On June 19, 2002, Research In Motion (RIM) announced that it had filed a Complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware against Good Technology, Inc. The Complaint alleges that Good Technology's wireless goods and services infringe on four of RIM's patents.

Amazon.com has settled with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) for its part in a misstatement of accounts by former partner Ashford.com. The SEC suit against Amazon.com, Ashford.com and two of Ashford.com's executives, Kenneth E. Kurtzman and Brian E. Bergeron alleged that Amazon.com helped Ashford.com misstate its financial results in 2000 by resolving a payment dispute using two separate documents each declaring a different settlement time. Ashford.com executives only disclosed one of the documents to the company's auditors, and thereby deferred a $1.5 Million loss.

In an effort to provide legal assistance to low income litigants and to reduce court workloads, the state of California has introduced computerized video kiosks that dispense legal advice and assist litigants in preparing common court filings.

Well in advance of the January 1, 2004 deadline for Canadian provinces to provide privacy legislation in lieu of the federal legislation (PIPEDA), the 2001 Annual Report of the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) calls for the adoption of Ontario's proposed privacy legislation (the Privacy of Personal Information Act, 2002).

© 2002, Deeth Williams Wall LLP. All Rights Reserved. By: Jennifer Jannuska (June 19, 2002) The intermingling of standard-setting and patents has been a contentious topic in legal and technology circles in the last several years. Some say there is an inherent conflict between standard-setting (as an open and public activity) and patents (which are by nature closed and proprietary). Disclosure and licensing are two areas of concern for patent owners interested in participating in standard-setting.

© 2002, Deeth Williams Wall LLP. All Rights Reserved. By: Jennifer Jannuska (June 19, 2002) Ownership of Inventions, Patent Rights by Employees Under the Patent Act, the inventor is the first person having the right to apply for a patent. In practice, where an invention has been assigned to a company, the company may apply for a patent in its own name by providing evidence of the assignment of rights from the inventor.

A numbered Ontario company carrying on business under the name Domain Register of Canada (DRC) and one its affiliates, Domain Register of America Inc. (the Plaintiffs) have initiated legal proceedings against Tucows for having sent out emails warning its clients of DRC's questionable marketing practices.

© 2002, Deeth Williams Wall LLP. All Rights Reserved. By: Heather Watts (April 12, 2002) AIDS and Africa Since the Uruguay Round of the GATT in 1994, patented drugs, and access to them, in the developing world have become major discussion points. Nowhere is the issue more important, than in Africa, the continent facing one of the worst health crises in history, and which is also the continent with the highest number of Least-Developed Countries (or LDCs) in the world.

© 2001, Deeth Williams Wall LLP. All Rights Reserved. By: Gervas W. Wall and Nicholas Whalen (Articling Student at the Firm) Table of Contents

© 2002, Deeth Williams Wall LLP. All Rights Reserved. By: Amy-Lynne Williams and Javad Heydary (November, 2001) Canada is one of the "most connected countries in the world" and it is estimated thatCanadian e-commerce will grow to over CND$150 billion ( £65 billion) by 2004. (Industry Canada: http://strategis.gc.ca)

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© 2001, 1999, Deeth Williams Wall LLP. All Rights Reserved. By: Jennifer Jannuska As of January 1, 1999, businesses and individual consumers have had to pay a premium on all "blank audio recording media" purchased in Canada. "Blank audio recording media" includes CD-Rewritable media, used by many companies for data storage.

© 2001, 1998, Deeth Williams Wall LLP. All Rights Reserved. By: Michael Erdle The Canadian Minister of Industry, John Manley, announced the official federal policy on cryptography on October 7, 1998, and at that time, outlined the six elements of his government's policy:

© 2001, 2000, Deeth Williams Wall LLP. All Rights Reserved. By: Gervas W. Wall and Nicholas Whalen (Articling Student at the Firm) It has been said that every contract is made of two parts: the boilerplate and the important stuff i. For many lawyers, boilerplate has become the drafting equivalent of wallpaper -it looks nice, is always around, but after a while you don't notice it any more.

© 2001, 2000, Deeth Williams Wall LLP. All Rights Reserved. By: Shereen Hamdy Updated: on January 31, 2002 by Heather Watts (June 30, 2000) Introduction

© 2001, 2000, Deeth Williams Wall LLP. All Rights Reserved. By: Jennifer Jannuska (June 30, 2000) Rudder v. Microsoft Corp. [1999] Click-through agreements are enforceable in Canada. A 1999 decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice clarified what was an ambiguous legal position for Canadian e-commerce vendors and licensors.

© 2000, Deeth Williams Wall LLP. All Rights Reserved. By: Amy-Lynne Williams and Ailbe Flynn (June 21, 2000) Background Domain names are now an important part of acquisitions, product launches, trade-mark policing and new businesses. Although domain names are registered for as little as $70.00 (or free in some cases), they are routinely sold for much more. Recent high profile sales include: 1