Ariel Katz

Law Professor, University of Toronto. IP law and Competition law. @UTFaculty Vice-President, Salary, Benefits, Pensions, and Workload. Board member @nifcan

[Shenaz Kermalli @ShenazKermalli]

my latest
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[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

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[Authors Alliance @auths_alliance]

Copyright lawyers, whether they are practitioners or academics, treat the Copyright Act of 1976 as if it were a sacred text. To a certain extent, we do so because we have internalized the great deference federal courts generally show to all acts of Congress. The courts give acts of Congress a presumption of legitimacy. The courts assume Congress knew what it was doing when passed a law, and it is not the courts’ role to second guess Congress’s policy judgments or motivations or competence. Moreover, as the Supreme Court teaches, they must “give effect, if possible, to every clause and word of a statute.”

This guest post by Jonathan Band is based on a presentation made on March 27, 2026, at the Texas A & M Law School Copyright Act @50 event.

https://t.co/jIvXiQmfU3

[Robyn Maynard @policingblack]

Toronto: What we’re seeing now is that (police) are not even distinguishing between protests, academic events or cultural events. Any time there are Palestinians speaking about Palestine, they are viewed as potentially anti-semitic or promoting violence.” https://t.co/xocnDsrXnn

[Brandon Butler @bc_butler]

On #fairusefriday we celebrate the fair use rights of all creators and innovators, even if they don’t grant their fellows the same courtesy. Take, for example, the @nytimes and John Carreyrou, who just published a blockbuster investigative piece on the creator of Bitcoin.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Destroying a library brings the dark ages.

[Ariel Katz @relkatz]

When “Never Again” means “Over and Over Again”.

[Brian Tashman @briantashman]

The “Never Again” message from the Adelson family’s Israeli newspaper: Southern Lebanon must be ethnically cleansed, “devoid of a civilian population”

[Jeremy Appel @JeremyAppel1025]

https://t.co/xVhmAst53e

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

The schools that had the most prevalent protests - including Columbia where I work - either suspended or expelled most of the students protesting Israel's genocide of Gaza. One of my former students has a 3 year (!!!) suspension.

Then, the schools enacted rules making protest nearly impossible. And the very people who pressured the schools to do this are now saying "Where are all the protests?".

Idiots.

[Brandon Butler @bc_butler]

Check out the @eff's latest victory against troll-ish law firm Higbee & Associates - lots of lessons here about liability, copyright incentives, and why you can't give rightsholders unchecked power to censor and extort the web: https://t.co/umNwWm08nu

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

HORRIFIC night in the West Bank.

Israeli settlers are attacking more than nine Palestinian villages and cities now, including Bethlehem, setting cars and homes on fire and attempting to burn families alive.

[Tom Perkins @PomTerkins]

Judges are largely finding that criticism of Israel/Zionism is 1st amendment protected speech, not antisemitic. Ditto for slogans like “From the river to the sea” Major blows to pro-Israel lawfare operation https://t.co/OWCRyzOK6I

[TheMuslimLawyer @faisalkutty]

Sometimes a poet captures the true cost of war more honestly than all the speeches that justify it.

[Javo, Lack of surprises @javier078]

People who look down on PIRACY live in a very comfortable bubble.

PIRACY helped and shaped a lot of movie fans from around the world, not everyone can afford spending 25 dollars for a HD/UHD movie or cinema tickets.

The 1st movies I owned were bootleg VHS tapes (AKIRA, a ton of anime from the 80's, RoboCop, A L I E N, etc), those bootlegs made me the movie fan I am today.

In South America, piracy is king, there is not a strong distribution for (legal) physical media, in PERU for example, you have stores that carry (bootleg) physical media, they even carry movies the US have no physical release or availablility on streaming.

EWatching movies should not be limited to 1st world countries, everyone deserves to enjoy movies/series no matter where you are.

[profdeibert @RonDeibert]

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator https://t.co/zjFPYImbXL via @YouTube

[TheMuslimLawyer @faisalkutty]

Canada as a Case Study in Transnational Repression of Gaza Critics

https://t.co/cgBb2ncHqW

[Richie Floyd @richiejfloyd]

I wish we lived in a world where I didn't feel constantly compelled to post this video, but until then here's Tony Benn speaking on war with clarity and moral conviction that you won't see from the evil people running the world today

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac…
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.”

— George Orwell

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

Canada once rejected America's aggressive, unlawful foreign policy. Today Mark Carney embraced it.

An absolute must read from a former Foreign Minister of Canada: https://t.co/36gkUyEDAw

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Here’s a fresh and striking take on the situation by Daniel Levy