A Sure Thing? Online Gaming and Canada

The legal status of gaming activities on First Nations land within Canada is complicated. The foci of this paper are two-fold. First, we trace the origin and expansion of First Nations gaming. Second, we analyze the potential of First Nations as hubs for the growing global e-gaming industry, with an emphasis on Internet poker and online sports wagering. We conclude by positing that the Canadian regulatory scheme presents an opportunity to First Nations in connection with e-gaming

American Needle’s Progeny? Tennis and Antitrust

Decided in the shadow of the U.S. Supreme Court’s May 2010 decision in American Needle v. NFL, Ryan M. Rodenberg and Daniel Hauptman analyze Deutscher Tennis Bund v. ATP World Tour (hereinafter DTB v. ATP) and aim to explain its implications for individual sports (e.g. tennis and golf) and sport governance generally. Treatment is afforded to both the District Court’s jury verdict and the Third Circuit’s appellate decision in DTB v. ATP. Despite being the first federal appellate sports antitrust decision rendered following American Needle, this article concludes that DTB v. ATP should not be considered an offspring of American Needle. More specifically, this article posits that the: (i) Third Circuit correctly applied relevant antitrust precedent in upholding the governing body’s unilateral decision to demote the German-based tournament to second-tier status as part of the ATP’s overall administration of men’s professional tennis globally; (ii) case would have been decided the same way notwithstanding American Needle; and (iii) DTB v. ATP holding is consistent with the Supreme Court’s ruling in American Needle. Part II of this paper will provide background information on the ATP as well as the Sherman Act. Part III will discuss both court rulings – the jury trial in the District Court and the Third Circuit’s affirming opinion – in which the ATP prevailed. Next, Part IV will analyze the pivotal legal issue that ultimately led the case to be decided in favor of the defendants, as well as provisionally explore how this dispute may have been decided under EU competition laws. Finally, Part V will conclude by examining how this vital antitrust ruling has affected the Hamburg tennis tournament and the ATP

A Framework for Providing Research Applications as a Service Using the IOME Toolkit

This paper presents a unique, multi-purpose toolkit, enabling researchers to easily develop modelling and analysis applications, which can be run as web services and accessed interactively. The development kit is based on a protocol that uses an XML markup called the "Interactive Object Management Environment Markup Language" (IOME ML). The paper describes the IOME ML and its development kit. We illustrate the capabilities of IOME with two case studies the first case study is based on a medical image processing application (CAIMAN: CAncer IMage ANalysis), offering image analysis tools for life scientists. For the second case study, the Pi-Phi collaboration have developed an inverse imaging method for ‘lensless’ microscopy a demonstrator is introduced for the Pi-Phi project. For both case studies the application is wrapped as a web service and accessed through a web browser. The paper concludes with a review of further developments, including refinements to the mark up language and the development of a service factory, enabling a more scalable service provision model through the dynamic invocation of published simulations as IOME web service applications