May 2021 WILMap Updates

Under the Copyright Act, rightsholders may give notice of claimed infringement to ISPs (s. 41.25 [1]), who must then forward the notice to the alleged infringer (s. 41.26[1][a]), and retain

On April 14, 2020, the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada released a consultation paper entitled “A Consultation on a Modern Copyright Framework for Online Intermediaries.” With a

In December 2018, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics issued a report entitled “Democracy Under Threat: Risks and Solutions in the Era of

In 2017, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada received a complaint claiming that Google violated the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”) by showing outdated, inaccurate, and

The 2018 Elections Modernization Act amended the federal Elections Act to include several disinformation measures aimed at protecting electoral integrity, with a focus on political advertisement transparency. Notably, platforms must

Chapter I: General Provisions Article 1: This law is formulated in accordance with the Constitution in order to protect the copyrights of authors of literary, artistic, and scientific works, as