The authors argue that the Digital Rights Management (DRM) provisions of Bill C-61– Canada's latest attempt at implementing its obligations under the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, inter alia – is ultra vires of Parliament's enumerated powers, and unconstitutionally intrudes into the Provincial legislative sphere. The DRM provisions of Bill C-61 represent...

upstream oil and gas operations could have adverse impacts on the environment and society as well as the safety, security and health of people. therefore, as a pre-condition to commence any oil and gas project, there must be a comprehensive eshia report, prepared and submitted by contractor to doe, in which all necessary precautions and a concrete program are considered to avoid, control or red...

This paper critiques blockchain-based “smart contracts,” which aim to automatically and securely execute obligations without reliance on a centralized enforcement authority. Though smart contracts do have some features that might serve the goals of social justice and fairness, I suggest that they are based on a thin conception of what law does, and how it does it. Smart contracts focus on the t...

Contracts and organizational controls to monitor contract compliance are important tools to enhance trust in a fair business transaction in network organisations and electronic commerce in general. In this paper, we propose a design methodology for such contracts and supporting controls, utilizing inter-organisational value models. We argue that a framework for designing control mechanisms shou...

The use of uncertainty and criticality measures in network planning of engineering projects by PERT networks is limited in practice because of their unreliability or complexity. The measures appear as inappropriate to support the definition of contractual obligations when based on uncertain information. The author proposes new uncertainty and criticality measures based on the identification and...

Most discussion on the current hot topic of e-commerce focuses either on the relationship between the customer and the supplier or on the security of these interactions. In this paper we present an architecture for building business-to-business e-commerce applications. The primary objective is to develop a lightweight infrastructure for building and maintaining collaborations from partners dist...