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The Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law is intervening an important Supreme Court case about copyright and technological neutrality. CBC v SODRAC concerns royalties payable by broadcasters for digital copies of music embedded in television programs.

The Supreme Court of Canada has granted CIPPIC leave to intervene in R. v. Chehil & R. v. MacKenzie (SCC File Nos. 34524 & 34397, respectively) , two now joint appeals in which the SCC that will examine the 'reasonable suspicion' standard in the context of sniffer dog searches.

Professor Jane Bailey is a Co-Investigator on a $2.5 million SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI) grant for a project entitled “Repenser le droit processuel : vers une cyberjustice” (“Rethinking Procedural Law: Towards a Cyberjustice”).

The Supreme Court of Canada granted CIPPIC leave to intervene in Crookes v. Newton, a case that will address when, if ever, the act of posting a hyperlink can amount to defamatory publication.