law technology and culture
Laws and legal frameworks that apply to digital media are required in order to grow the economic wealth of a country and are not required to protect participants in digital media cultures.
Write a paper about why you disagree or agree with this claim. Support your argument by describing related legislation or common law. Consider identifying key stakeholders and their positions on economic or cultural issues with digital media. Refer to at least one relevant case and/or decision of the court. To narrow down the topic, write your paper with a specific focus on one of the following two areas of law:
A) Intellectual Property (i.e. you can narrow down further to Copyright and Bill C-11, or Trademark protections in the Lanham Act, or Patent protection through the Patent Act etc); or
B) Privacy (i.e, you can examine protections offered by the tort of intrusion upon seclusion, legislation such as the Privacy Act etc)
