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Switching to Typescript

  • posted on February 1, 2021February 3, 2021
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet, Law
I finally gave in and learned the language that caused me to drop Angular for React. Sorry Google. I didn’t really have a good a reason for it but I decided to give it a try on one utility
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The art of the single sentence paragraph

  • posted on June 9, 2010June 9, 2010
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Law
Sometimes you’re reading a case, feeling weighed down by some section, and then you hit a beautiful, understated single sentence paragraph that just makes you burst out laughing. I think that
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Spying on student laptops: Teachers just can’t win

  • posted on February 26, 2010
  • William Barnes
  • 1 Comment
  • Posted in Law
So there is this school in Philadelphia that has a laptop program. Unfortunately, it turned out that the laptops had monitoring software on them and, even worse, the school was using the software to
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Asper Panel: Bills C-46 & C-47, Overdue Update or Big Brother?

  • posted on February 25, 2010
  • William Barnes
  • 3 Comments
  • Posted in Law, School
The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights held a panel today on bills C-46 and C-47, which were introduced into the House of Commons in the last session and would have made it easier for
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Loss of jurisdiction is the remedy for delay in privacy cases?

  • posted on February 5, 2010
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Law
Alberta Teachers’ Association v. Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) continues to bug me. It is a recent decision of the Alberta Court of Appeal that held that if an investigation
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Maybe Rupert has a point

  • posted on November 29, 2009December 8, 2009
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet, Law
Everybody thinks Rupert Murdoch is crazy for wanting to hide his web properties from Google, but I’ve been thinking: maybe he has a point. Bloggers and podcasters say that Rupert doesn’t
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Ownership in the digital world

  • posted on October 9, 2009October 9, 2009
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet, Law
My latest IP Osgoode post is up. In it I discuss the difference between what consumers expect when they buy digital content or a network connected device and reality. This post expands and clarifies
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In defense of the white pages

  • posted on September 27, 2009
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Law
I apologize if this is hopelessly I-just-read-CCH of me. No doubt it’s all been said before, but when has that stopped me? Copyright only protects “original works”. But original
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Software Patents ~= Literary Patents?

  • posted on September 13, 2009
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Law
Stuart Freen posted a reply on IPilogue to a Cato Institute article claiming that software patents are analogous to literary patents. I thought I agreed with Stu, but I’m not so sure. A story
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Annoying Domain Dispute

  • posted on August 2, 2009
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet, Law
I really don’t like the outcome of this (old) case: Freddy Adu v. Frank Fushille. The complainant is some kind of soccer player or something. The respondent is a fan. The respondent registered
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