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Full-Text Articles in Consumer Protection Law
A Consumer Protection Perspective On Regulation For Healthier Eating, Barbara Von Tigerstrom
A Consumer Protection Perspective On Regulation For Healthier Eating, Barbara Von Tigerstrom
Dalhousie Law Journal
This article explores the potential for a consumer protection perspective to complement public health approaches in designing and justifying laws that aim to promote healthier eating, such as food labelling regulations or restrictions on marketing and advertising. Consumer protection and public health are distinct perspectives, but they share the goal of protecting health and both accept the need for regulation to protect important interests. Consumer protection objectives could be used to defend public health measures that are challenged as infringing rights or restricting trade. Insights from consumer law and scholarship could also contribute to discussions about when regulatory intervention to …
Fighting Spam. How Stringent Is The Canadian Legal Arsenal. An Analysis In The Light Of The U.S. Can-Spam Act, Serge Kablan
Fighting Spam. How Stringent Is The Canadian Legal Arsenal. An Analysis In The Light Of The U.S. Can-Spam Act, Serge Kablan
Canadian Journal of Law and Technology
Following several countries, Canada recently passed Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), in an attempt to tackle spam. The law aims to ‘‘protect Canadians while ensuring that businesses can continue to compete in the global marketplace”. For this purpose, CASL prohibits not only the sending of commercial electronic messages without consent, but also any alteration of transmission data in the course of a commercial activity. Moreover, the Act disallows the installation of a computer program on another person’s computer system and the sending of commercial electronic messages following the installation. These three activities are prohibited unless the author or initiator has obtained …
Legitimate Invasions: What Ontario Can Learn From The History Of The Consumer Reporting Act, Eliie Marshall
Legitimate Invasions: What Ontario Can Learn From The History Of The Consumer Reporting Act, Eliie Marshall
Canadian Journal of Law and Technology
The growth of modern surveillance has attracted great public and scholarly interest. As Justice Abella recently noted in Douez v. Facebook, the Internet has transformed the potential harms flowing from an unjustified invasion of one’s personal information. Most analyses of the associated risks, however, imply that the techniques and motivations for surveillance are new. In fact, tactics for collecting and exchanging information about individuals to gain power over those individuals are well documented since time immemorial. From William the Conquerer’s Domesday Book to IBM’s first census tabulating machine, the advantage gained through data sharing has greatly benefited the state. The …
The Coming Revolution In Class Action Notices: Reaching The Universe Of Claimants Through Technologies, Catherine Piché Dr
The Coming Revolution In Class Action Notices: Reaching The Universe Of Claimants Through Technologies, Catherine Piché Dr
Canadian Journal of Law and Technology
New technologies, social networking sites, blogs, and other interactive online platforms are playing an increasing part of North Americans’ lives. As of June 2017, Facebook had, on average, 1.32 billion daily active users and 2.01 billion monthly active users. Generation X spends the most time on social media, with approximately seven hours per week, while Generation Y comes in second, spending a little more than six hours per week doing the same. The heaviest users are female, who spend one quarter of their time online on social media,with males correspondingly spending 19% of their time doing so. Data on average …
Individual Licensing Models And Consumer Protection, Lucie Guibault
Individual Licensing Models And Consumer Protection, Lucie Guibault
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
Copyright law is not primarily directed at consumers. Their interests are therefore only marginally accounted for, as the copyright rules exempt specific uses of works from the right holder’s control. This chapter examines the impact of digital technology on the position of consumers of licensed copyrighted content. While ownership of the physical embodiment of a work does not entail the ownership of the rights in the work, how does copyright law deal with ‘disembodied’ works? Whereas digital content is now commonly distributed on the basis of individual licensing schemes, what does it mean for consumers? Do they have a claim …