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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.

On September 30, 2010 Professor Teresa Scassa will be giving a talk at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University entitled: “Performance enhancing rights: Ambush marketing laws and major sporting events”.

Professor Jennifer Chandler has received a Visiting Associate Professor appointment at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Singapore, starting this September.

Professor Ian Kerr visited CBC Radio One’s Ottawa Morning on July 12, 2010 to discuss the “Money at My Fingertips” optional payment system at Ottawa’s new Calypso Water Park, which uses cutting-edge fingerprint scanning technology.

Professor Scassa has published a paper in the most recent issue of the Queen’s Law Journal, entitled “Journalistic Purposes and Private Sector Data Protection Legislation: Blogs, Tweets and Information Maps.”

Professor Michael Geist has been named “Lawyer of the Week” and featured in an article entitled “Canada’s technology law guru” in the July 2, 2010 edition of The Lawyers Weekly.

Professor Ian Kerr has been named the LeBoff Distinguished Visiting Scholar at New York University’s Steinhardt Department of Media, Culture, and Communication.

Professor Michael Geist has been named one of the 50 most influential people in Intellectual Property by Managing Intellectual Property Magazine.

Professor Jeremy deBeer is one of several researchers who has edited a new volume that provides a detailed look at the role of copyright on access to knowledge in Africa.

Professor Michael Geist has been chosen by the leading digital rights group Public Knowledge as one of four recipients of its 2010 IP3 Award.