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Law Bytes

Michael Geist

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In recent years the intersection between law, technology, and policy has exploded as digital policy has become a mainstream concern in Canada and around the world. This podcast explores digital policies in conversations with people studying the legal and policy challenges, set the rules, or are experts in the field. It provides a Canadian perspective, but since the internet is global, examining international developments and Canada’s role in shaping global digital policy is be an important part...

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Episodes (231)

Episode 228: Kumanan Wilson on Why Canadian Health Data Requires Stronger Privac...

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Episode 227: Tara Henley on How to Save the CBC

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Episode 226: Richard Gold on Why Canada Should Target U.S. Patents To Help Count...

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Episode 225: How Canada Can Leverage Digital Policy to Retaliate Against Trump’s...

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Episode 224: Why Prorogation and Donald Trump Spell the End of an Era in Canadia...

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Episode 223: The Year in Canadian Digital Law and Policy

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Episode 222: Robert Diab on Canadian Media’s Copyright Lawsuit Against OpenAI

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Episode 221: Inside My Canadian Heritage Committee Appearance on Freedom of Expr...

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Episode 220: Marina Pavlović on the CRTC’s Plans to Address Consumer Frustratio...

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Episode 219: Scott Benzie on What the Corporate TikTok Ban Means For Canadian Di...

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Episode 218: Emily Laidlaw and Taylor Owen on Saving the Online Harms Act

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Episode 217: David Fraser on the Privacy Implications of the Federal Court of Ap...

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Episode 216: Game Changer or More of the Same?: Patrick Leblond on the New Globa...

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Episode 215: Jan Grabowski on Wikipedia’s Antisemitism Problem

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Episode 214: Erin Millar on Trust in Media and the Implementation of the Online...

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Episode 213: Elaine Craig on Mainstreaming Porn and Why Bill S-210 May Make Matt...

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Episode 212: Matt Hatfield on the State of Canadian Digital Policy as Politician...

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Episode 211: Carlos Affonso Souza on the Unprecedented Brazilian Court Order Blo...

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Episode 210: Meredith Lilly on the Trade Risks Behind Canada’s Digital Services...

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Episode 209: Peter Menzies on Why the Canadian News Sector is Broken and How to...

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Episode 208: Will Page on Why the CRTC’s Bill C-11 Ruling is Discriminatory and...

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Episode 207: The State of Digital Law and Policy in Canada as Parliament Breaks...

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Episode 206: James Plotkin and David Fewer on Canada’s Landmark Copyright Ruling...

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Episode 205: Len St-Aubin on What the CRTC’s Internet Streaming Ruling Means For...

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Episode 204: What Could Have Been for the Bill S-210 Hearings

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Episode 203: Andrew Clement on Calls to Separate Privacy Reform and Artificial I...

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Episode 202: David Soberman on the Reality Behind Claims Canadian Wireless Price...

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Episode 201: Robert Diab on the Billion Dollar Lawsuits Launched By Ontario Scho...

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Episode 200: Colin Bennett on the EU’s Surprising Adequacy Finding on Canadian P...

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Episode 199: Boris Bytensky on the Criminal Code Reforms in the Online Harms Act

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Episode 198: Richard Moon on the Return of the Section 13 Hate Speech Provision...

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Episode 197: Divest, Ban or Regulate?: Anupam Chander on the Global Fight Over T...

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Episode 196: Vibert Jack on the Supreme Court's Landmark Bykovets Internet Priva...

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Episode 195: Vivek Krishnamurthy on What You Need to Know About the Online Harms...

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Episode 194: CCH Turns 20 - Scott Jolliffe Goes Behind the Scenes of the Landmar...

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Episode 193: The Online Harms Act is Nearly Here - A Backgrounder and Preview

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Episode 192: Kate Robertson on the Privacy, Expression and Affordability Risks i...

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Episode 191: Luca Bertuzzi on the Making of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act

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Episode 190: Debating Bill S-210 - Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne Defends Her Int...

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The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 189: The Year in Canadian Digital Law and Policy...

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Dec 18, 202335:09pending

Episode 188: Consumers, Competition or Corporate Cash Grab? - My Bill C-11 Appea...

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Dec 11, 202342:54pending

Episode 187: Jeff Elgie on What the Bill C-18 Deal with Google Means for the Fut...

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Episode 186: Andy Kaplan-Myrth on the CRTC’s Last Ditch Attempt to Fix Canada’s...

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Episode 185: Bill C-11 at the CRTC - A Preview of the Upcoming Online Streaming...

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Episode 184: Philip Palmer on the Constitutional Doubts About the Government’s I...

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Episode 183: Andres Guadamuz on the Battle Over Copyright and Generative AI

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Episode 182: Inside the Hearings on Privacy and AI Reform - My Industry Committe...

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Episode 181: Is this Podcast About to be Regulated by the CRTC?

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Episode 180: Victoria Owen Sets the Record Straight on Canadian Copyright Law an...

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Episode 179: Peter Menzies on Why the CRTC Feels Broken Right Now

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