Commentary

A few years ago, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models dominated conversations about AI. This vision for a democratized and collaborative AI ecosystem seemed bright. Fast forward to today and the contributions of open-source models are overshadowed and undervalued. Big tech players are monopolizing the AI industry, replaying a story the technology industry knows all too well.

The Federal Court in WhiteWater has invalidated patent claims solely on the independent ground of overbreadth for the first time in over forty years. This development marks a pivotal moment in Canadian patent law.

Taylor Swift's re-recording project, "Taylor's Version," highlights her battle to regain ownership of her music catalog and the role of copyright law in artists' rights. While rooted in U.S. copyright law, this movement could inspire Canadian artists to negotiate for similar re-recording clauses, potentially shifting the industry's norms around creative ownership.

In a landmark decision, the Federal Court of Appeal overturned a lower court decision involving Facebook’s (now known as Meta) breach of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

The federal government may be risking a repeat of the Online News Act debacle by playing chicken with online streaming platforms over payments to Canadian cultural funds.

For now, lawyers who use ChatGPT to save time must be comfortable with a certain amount of cut corners: the chatbot sprinkles inaccuracies in otherwise excellent answers and convincingly pretends to know about cases it has never heard of—these mistakes are too insidious to catch the eye of those in a hurry.

Canadian copyright cases often make reference to balancing protection of and access to copyrighted works, or to balancing the rights of creators against users or the public interest. However, these simple categories of creators and users ignore the variety within each of these categories...

The Online News Act aimed to help calm the financial seas for Canadian news organizations, but a year later the waters remain choppy with infighting, financial woes, and disappointment.

It's time to rethink two of the business exceptions to PIPEDA’s consent requirements: the consent exceptions for prospective and completed business transactions.

Virtual reality headsets may be the next frontier in immersive entertainment, but the cutting-edge technology could also be the next frontier of privacy issues with a new way to secretly record people.