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LoGIC provides only general legal information which cannot
be relied upon as legal advice specific to a particular situation.

The Legal Group for the Internet in Canada ("LoGIC") is a conduit for the exchange of information and ideas about policies concerning emerging communication and information technologies. We are devoted to ensuring informed public, legislative, and regulatory responses to these technologies, which at present are manifest most profoundly in the Internet. We want to ensure that new laws and regulations have no detrimental effects on the free and interactive communication of information.

Our work focuses on four broad areas of activity relating to our goals:

1. Dissemination of information about legislative, jurisprudential, and political developments in Canada.
2. Research and commentary about legislative, jurisprudential, and political developments in Canada.
3. Participation in the shaping of Canadian law and public policy to new developments.
4. Monitoring of, and participation in, criminal and civil cases in the Canadian legal system.

Submissions, etc.

• CRTC Submission - The Regulation of New Media
  Greg Segal (and Dov Wisebrod), October 1, 1998, 23Kb.

• LoGIC's letter to the Minister of Justice, the Hon. Allan Rock concerning the implications to search and seizure of computer data of proposed amendments in Bill C-17.
  Dov Wisebrod, Daniel Shap, David Fruitman, and John Kingdon, March 18, 1996, 14Kb.

• LoGISTICS -- September 1995, vol. 01, no. 01, 20Kb. (The only issue, ahem.)

Essays

• "Search and Seizure of Computer Data"
  Dov Wisebrod, April 1996, 5Kb.

• "Corporate Governance at the Speed of Light"
  Richard Nathan, April 1996, 10Kb.

• "Export Controls in a World Without Borders: A Smuggler's Paradise?"
  Dov Wisebrod, October 1995, 6Kb.

• "Section 342.1 Criminal Code of Canada - Unauthorized Use of a Computer System"
  Daniel Shap, September 1995, 9Kb.

• "The Administration of Justice in the Internet Age: The Homolka Information Ban"
  Dov Wisebrod, November 1994, 6Kb.

• "The Doctrine of Public Forum as Applied to Canadian Freenets"
  Daniel Shap, 1994, 7Kb.

Articles

• "Canada, Censorship, and the Internet"
  Donald F. Theall, 1997, 105Kb.

• "The Great Canadian 'Cache' Grab: Rethinking Browsing as Copyright Infringement"
  Jennifer Jannuska, 1997, 55Kb.

• "To Shoot the Messenger? A Canadian Approach to Libel and the On-Line Service Provider"
  Jennifer Jannuska, 1997, 56Kb.

• "Visions of the Future: Governments Wrestle with Information Technology"
  Dov Wisebrod, April 1995, 128Kb.

• "The Free Flow of Information: Can it be Regulated?"
  Dov Wisebrod, March 1995, 32Kb.

• "Controlling the Uncontrollable: Regulating the Internet"
  Dov Wisebrod, March 1995, 97Kb.

• "Hate Crimes in the Electronic Media"
  Daniel Shap, 1994, 166Kb.

• "Shooting the Messenger: The Liability of Internet Service Providers for Prohibited Expression"
  John Kingdon, 1994, 61Kb.

• "Search and Seizure of Canadian Computer Environments"
  Daniel Shap, 1993, 69Kb.