CMN 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Internet Service Provider
10 Dec 2018
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Lecture 4: socan took caip to court saying internet service providers should take responsibility for royalties lost with copyright infringement, caip said internet service providers are content natural the simply provide the means. Caip won because they argued they dealt with infrastructure not content. If an internet service provider does not meet the definition of undertaking. As long as they remain content neutral by not creating content but providing the means to get to it. Hill vs. scientology is the landmark judgement when we consider the common law of defamation. The common law of defamation: body of law that"s sometimes called judge made law, large body of cases that have accumulated where the courts over time has made shape to that law case by case. To prove defamation you need to establish 3 things (libel: words are published, they refer to me, prove harm (my reputation was harmed by those words)
