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Social networks want to hang out with each other, but on their own terms

Rex Shoyama is a Visiting Professor and the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. The general presumption in the Web 2.0 world is that a greater level of sharing and interoperability is a better thing.  However, the method in which this sharing is attained should not be ignored as it can have significant legal ramifications.  Rushing […]

European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009

Afroditi Theodoridou is a PhD student at Osgoode Hall Law School. Now that we are heralding a New Year, the European Union is welcoming in Prague, on January 7, 2009, its European Year of Creativity and Innovation (EYCI) with the aim to promote an innovation and creativity-friendly environment. This is a meaningful continuation of the European Year of […]

A plea for disciplinary disloyalty in intellectual property studies

Graham Dutfield is Professor of International Governance at the University of Leeds and is an IP Osgoode Research Affiliate. This is a plea for disciplinary disloyalty in intellectual property studies. I realise that sounds very bad – what’s good about disloyalty? But it’s not in the way I mean it. I am a geographer of […]