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Barry Sookman INDU Appearance on AIDA
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AIDA: my appearance before the INDU Committee

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  • November 29, 2023
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Minister Champagne and AIDA
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Minister provides proposed amendments to AIDA

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  • November 29, 2023
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UK AI Bill to regulate AI
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UK AI Regulation Bill

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  • November 25, 2023
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Minister Champagne and AIDA
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Government proposals to amend AIDA: the challenges ahead Part 2

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  • November 12, 2023
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Five Tech Cases Everyone Needs to Know – SOCAN v CAIP

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  • October 25, 2023
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Minister Champagne and AIDA
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Minister provides proposed amendments to AIDA

  • Barry Sookman
  • November 29, 2023
The ISED Minister has now released the amendments it proposes to AIDA together with an explanatory letter. They van be accessed here and here (English) and here and here (French). Thee will…
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UK AI Bill to regulate AI
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UK AI Regulation Bill

  • Barry Sookman
  • November 25, 2023
A private members Bill introduced into the UK House of Lords entitled the Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill [HL] is an example of a model agile law to regulate AI. It may provide a…
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Minister Champagne and AIDA
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Government proposals to amend AIDA: the challenges ahead Part 2

  • Barry Sookman
  • November 12, 2023
The Government still does not appear ready to clarify what threshold or risk to health and safety or bias would be sufficient to make an AI system a “high impact” system, either in the initial…
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Five Tech Cases Everyone Needs to Know – SOCAN v CAIP

  • Barry Sookman
  • October 25, 2023
The Supreme Court decision in SOCAN v CAIP was a landmark copyright decision that broke new ground on the liability (or immunities) of ISPs for copyright infringement in Canada and in…
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Minister Champagne and AIDA
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Government proposals to amend CPPA and AIDA: the good, the bad, and the challenges ahead Part 1

  • Barry Sookman
  • October 15, 2023
In response to criticisms about Bill C-27, the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2022, and especially criticisms related to AIDA, the Government disclosed amendments it proposes to make…
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Copyright and generative AI
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  • artificial inteliigence
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Canadian consultation on the implications of GenAI for copyright.

  • Barry Sookman
  • October 12, 2023
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) and the Department of Heritage just launched a Consultation on the implications of generative artificial…
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Google search engines and privacy
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Legality of search engines and AI systems under PIPEDA and CPPA: Google v Privacy Commissioner

  • Barry Sookman
  • October 8, 2023
The Federal Court of Appeal just released an important opinion in Google LLC v. Canada (Privacy Commissioner) 2023 FCA 200, holding that Google cannot rely on the journalistic exception in…
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All In AI Event Sookman Keynote speech
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AI, Copyright + the Wisdom of Experience: my keynote speech at All In

  • Barry Sookman
  • September 30, 2023
I had the pleasure earlier this week to speak at the All In AI Event in Montreal. This was a premiere 2 day event described as “The most important event dedicated to Canadian AI”. The…
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Voltage copyright infringement
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Internet account holders not liable for copyright infringement of their users: Voltage v Doe

  • Barry Sookman
  • September 28, 2023
A person is not liable for copyright infringement without evidence other than it is a holder of an account that has been used to infringe copyright.
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Open AI motion to dismiss
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OpenAI comes out swinging in motions to dismiss copyright class action claims

  • Barry Sookman
  • September 25, 2023
OpenAI moves to dismiss claims its output infringes authors' copyrights. OpenAI alleges that output cannot be an infringing derivative work.
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  • Why you need a good information technology lawyer for complex IT agreements: CIS v IBM

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