Teresa Scassa

University of Ottawa - Common Law Section

Canada Research Chair in Information Law

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Data Ownership

CIGI Papers No. 187, Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2018-26
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 11 Oct 2018
Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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A Human Rights-Based Approach to Data Protection in Canada

in Dubois, E. and Martin-Bariteau, F. (eds.), Citizenship in a Connected Canada: A Research and Policy Agenda, Ottawa, ON: University of Ottawa Press (2020), Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2020-26
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 30 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2020
Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Administrative Law and the Governance of Automated Decision-Making: A Critical Look at Canada’s Directive on Automated Decision-Making

Forthcoming, (2021) 54:1 University of British Columbia Law Review
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 10 Dec 2020
Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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artificial intelligence, automated decision making, AI, administrative law, algorithmic impact assessment

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Artificial Intelligence in Canadian Healthcare: Will the Law Protect Us from Algorithmic Bias Resulting in Discrimination?

Bradley Henderson, Colleen M. Flood, and Teresa Scassa, “Artificial Intelligence in Canadian Healthcare: Will the Law Protect Us from Algorithmic Bias Resulting in Discrimination?” (2021) 19:2 Canadian Journal of Law and Technology (Forthcoming), Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2021-24
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 02 Nov 2021
Bradley Henderson, Colleen M. Flood and Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa - Faculty of Law and University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Health Data, Algorithmic Bias, Data Bias, Algorithmic Discrimination, Health Data Governance, Medical Device Regulation.

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New First Principles? Assessing the Internet's Challenges to Jurisdiction

Georgetown Journal of International Law, Vol. 42, 2011
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 24 Jul 2012
Teresa Scassa and Robert J. Currie
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and Dalhousie University - Schulich School of Law
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Internet, jurisdiction, extraterritorial, international law, globalization

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Privacy, Ethics, and Contact-tracing Apps

Teresa Scassa, Jason Millar and Kelly Bronson, "Privacy, Ethics, and Contact-tracing Apps", in C.M. Flood, V. MacDonnell, J. Philpott, S. Thériault and S. Venkatapuram, eds. Vulnerable: The Law and Policy of COVID-19, University of Ottawa Press, 2020., Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2020-23
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 24 Jul 2020
Teresa Scassa, Jason Millar and Kelly Bronson
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, University of Ottawa and Independent
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COVID-19, ethics, privacy, contact-tracing, contact-tracing app

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Ambush Marketing Legislation to Protect Olympic Sponsors: A Step Too Far in the Name of Brand Protection?

B. Courtney Doagoo, Mistrale Goudreau, Madelaine Saginur, and Teresa Scassa, eds. Intellectual Property for the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Irwin Law, 2014.
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 07 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2015
Teresa Scassa and Benoit Séguin
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of Ottawa
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Ambush marketing, olympics, sponsorship, intellectual property

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Promoting Transparency While Protecting Privacy in Open Government in Canada

Alberta Law Review, Forthcoming, Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2015-34
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 14 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 25 Nov 2015
Teresa Scassa and Amy Conroy
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Students
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privacy, transparency, open data, proactive disclosure, big data, personal information

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Sharing Data in the Platform Economy: A Public Interest Argument for Access to Platform Data

UBC Law Review, Vol. 50:4, 2017, Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2018-08
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 30 Nov 2017
Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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sharing economy, platform economy, data, data scraping, open data

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Developing Privacy Best Practices for Direct-to-Public Legal Apps: Observations and Lessons Learned

(2020) 18:1 Canadian Journal of Law and Technology (Forthcoming), Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2019-35
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 15 Oct 2019
Teresa Scassa, Amy Salyzyn, Amy Salyzyn, Jena McGill and Suzanne Bouclin
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, University of Ottawa - Faculty of LawUniversity of Ottawa - Common Law Section, University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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access to justice, technology, legal apps, legal technology, privacy

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Originality and Utilitarian Works: The Uneasy Relationship between Copyright Law and Unfair Competition

University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal, Vol. 1, p. 51, 2003-2004
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 04 Aug 2005
Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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originality, copyright, unfair competition, compilations, originalité, droit d'auteur, concurrence déloyale, compilations

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Designing Data Governance for Data Sharing: Lessons from Sidewalk Toronto

(2020) Technology & Regulation 44-56. (Special Issue: Governing Data as a Resource), online: https://techreg.org/index.php/techreg/article/view/51.
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 10 Dec 2020
Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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data governance, smart cities, privacy, data protection, data ownership, data sharing, data trust

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Balancing Transparency and Accountability with Privacy in Improving the Police Handling of Sexual Assaults

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 02 Dec 2015
Amy Conroy and Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Students and University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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privacy, transparency, sexual assault, access to information, policing

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Law Enforcement in the Age of Big Data and Surveillance Intermediaries: Transparency Challenges

(2017) 14:2 SCRIPTed 239-284 DOI: 10.2966/scrip.140217.239 , Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2018-04
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 22 Dec 2017
Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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big data, transparency, data analytics, privacy, social media, social media data analytics, police, surveillance

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Public Transit Data Through an Intellectual Property Lens: Lessons About Open Data

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 19 Feb 2015
Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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intellectual property, open data, copyright, public transit

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Intellectual Property and the Licensing of Canadian Government Geospatial Data: An Examination of Geoconnections’ Recommendations for Best Practices and Template Licences

The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe Canadien, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 10 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 25 May 2014
Elizabeth F. Judge and Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Copyright, Licensing, Intellectual Property, Geospatial Data, Government Data, Crown Copyright, GeoConnections

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Open Data and Privacy

Scassa, Teresa (2018) “Public draft: Open Data & Privacy” In: The State of Open Data, edited by Tim Davies, Stephen Walker, Mor Rubinstein, and Fernando Perini (2019, Forthcoming). , Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2018-29
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 17 Oct 2018
Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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privacy, open data, open government, big data, data protection

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Privacy by the Wayside: The New Information Superhighway, Data Privacy, and Intelligent Transportation Systems

(2011) 74:1 Saskatchewan Law Review 87-135
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 01 Jan 2013
Teresa Scassa, Jennifer A. Chandler and Elizabeth F. Judge
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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ITS, informational privacy, privacy law, intelligent transportation systems, data privacy

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Open or Closed? Open Licensing of Real-Time Public Sector Transit Data

(2016) Journal of e-Democracy 8:2, 1-19, Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2017-02
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 19 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2017
Teresa Scassa and Alexandra Diebel
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of Ottawa, Common Law Section, Students
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open data, real-time data, transit data, intellectual property, licensing

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The Cost(s) of Open Geospatial Data

Johnson PA, Sieber RE, Scassa T, Stephens M, Robinson PJ. The Cost(s) of Geospatial Open Data. Transactions in GIS. 2017;21:434–445. DOI: 10.1111/tgis.12283
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 24 Jul 2017
Peter Johnson, Renee Sieber, Teresa Scassa, Monica Stephens and Pamela Robinson
University of Waterloo - Department of Geography and Environmental Management, McGill University, University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, Department of Geography and Ryerson University
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open data, open government, spatial data infrastructures, technology adoption, technology impacts

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Antisocial Trademarks

(2013) 103:5 Trademark Reporter 1172-1213
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 02 Apr 2014
Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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trademarks, intellectual property, disparaging marks, morality

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Global Reach, Local Grasp: Constructing Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in the Age of Globalization

Candaian Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2007
Number of pages: 91 Posted: 21 Jul 2012
Steve Coughlan, Robert J. Currie, Hugh M. Kindred and Teresa Scassa
Dalhousie University - Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University - Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University and University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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globalization, transnational interaction, national, legal jurisdiction, government

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Intellectual Property for the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Approaches

B. Courtney Doagoo, Mistrale Goudreau, Madelaine Saginur and Teresa Scassa. Intellectual Property for the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Irwin Law, 2014.
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 07 Oct 2015
Teresa Scassa, Mistrale Goudreau, Baharak Doagoo and Madelaine Saginur
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa - Faculty of Law and University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law
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interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary, intellectual property law, copyright, patent, trademark

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Interests in the Balance

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: THE FUTURE OF CANADIAN COPYRIGHT LAW, M. Geist, ed., Toronto: Irwin Law, 2005
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 21 Oct 2010
Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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copyright law, balance, creators, intellectual property law

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Artificial Intelligence and the Law in Canada

Florian Martin-Bariteau & Teresa Scassa, eds., Artificial Intelligence and the Law in Canada (Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2021)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 05 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2022
Florian Martin-Bariteau and Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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AI; law; Canada

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Trademarks Worth a Thousand Words: Freedom of Expression and the Use of the Trademarks of Others

Les Cahiers de droit (2012) 53:4 887
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Jun 2014
Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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copyright, trademark, trademark bullying, Trade-marks Act, droit d'auteur, marque de commerce, poursuite abusive, Loi sur les marques de commerce

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AI and Data Protection Law

in Florian Martin-Bariteau & Teresa Scassa, eds., Artificial Intelligence and the Law in Canada (Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2021)
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 03 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2022
Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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AI, privacy, data protection, canada

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Copyright Reform and Fact-Based Works

FROM RADICAN EXTREMISM TO FAIR AND BALANCED COPYRIGHT, M. Geist, ed., Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 Oct 2010
Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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copyright law, intellectual property, compilations

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Legal Issues with Volunteered Geographic Information

(2013) 57:1 Canadian Geographer
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 Mar 2014
Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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volunteered geographic information, copyright, privacy, legal issues

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A Modern Copyright Framework for Artificial Intelligence: IP Scholars' Joint Submission to the Canadian Government Consultation

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 24 May 2022
Carys J. Craig, Bita Amani, Sara Bannerman, Céline Castets-Renard, Pascale Chapdelaine, Lucie Guibault, Gregory R. Hagen, Cameron J. Hutchison, Ariel Katz, Alexandra Mogyoros, Graham J. Reynolds, Anthony D Rosborough, Teresa Scassa and Myra Tawfik
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Queen's University - Faculty of Law, McMaster University Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia, Civil Law Faculty, University of Windsor, Faculty of Law, Schulich School of Law, Independent, University of Alberta - Faculty of Law, University of Toronto - Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia (UBC), Faculty of Law, European University Institute, University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of Windsor - Faculty of Law
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Copyright, Intellectual Property, Law, Artificial Intelligence, AI, Authorship, TDM, Fair Dealing, Technological Neutrality

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Navigating Legal Rights in Spatial Media

Forthcoming, 2016, in Kitchin, Lauriault & Wilson, eds. Understanding Spatial Media, Sage Publications.
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 10 Nov 2015
Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Intellectual property, data licence, open data, copyright, patent, terms of use, spatial data

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Nickled and Dimed: The Dispute Over Intellectual Property Rights in the Bluenose II

(2004) 27 Dalhousie L.J. 293-320
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 07 Oct 2015
Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Intellectual Property, Trademarks, Copyright, Official Marks, Public Domain

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Consumer Privacy and Radio Frequency Identification Technology

Ottawa Law Review, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2006
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 09 Jan 2016
Teresa Scassa, Theodore Chiasson, Michael Deturbide and Anne Uteck
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie University - Schulich School of Law and Dalhousie University
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Open Data and Official Language Regimes

Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2015-33
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 13 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2015
Teresa Scassa and Niki Singh
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law
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open data, official languages, language policy, open government

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A Modern Copyright Framework for the Internet of Things (IoT): Intellectual Property Scholars' Joint Submission to the Canadian Government Consultation

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 24 Jun 2022
Pascale Chapdelaine, Anthony D Rosborough, Aaron Perzanowski, Bita Amani, Sara Bannerman, Carys J. Craig, Lucie Guibault, Cameron J. Hutchison, Ariel Katz, Alexandra Mogyoros, Graham J. Reynolds, Teresa Scassa and Myra Tawfik
University of Windsor, Faculty of Law, European University Institute, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Queen's University - Faculty of Law, McMaster University Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Schulich School of Law, University of Alberta - Faculty of Law, University of Toronto - Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia (UBC), Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of Windsor - Faculty of Law
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Copyright, Canadian Copyright Reform, Intellectual Property, Internet of Things, IoT, Technological Protection Measure, TPM, Right to Repair, Personal Property, Follow-on innovation

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Text and Context: Making Sense of Canada's New Personal Information Protection Legislation

Ottawa Law Review, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2000
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 01 Feb 2016
Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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sponsorship, trademarks, freedom of expression, unfair competition

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Journalistic Purposes and Private Sector Data Protection Legislation: Blogs, Tweets, and Information Maps

Posted: 10 Oct 2010
Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section

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data protection, privacy, journalism, geographic information, maps

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Geographical Information as 'Personal Information'

Posted: 10 Oct 2010
Teresa Scassa
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section

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data protection, privacy, personal information, geographic information