Simon Fodden (Professor Emeritus, Osgoode Hall Law School) is founder of the Canadian cooperative law blog Slaw (http://www.slaw.ca). Five years ago, Joel Tenenbaum, now a 24-year-old graduate student at BU, may have downloaded seven tunes via a P2P network. At least that’s what the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) alleges — and now it wants […]
Nada Basir is a PhD candidate at the Schulich School of Business at York University in the area of Strategic Management and Policy. The increased use of patents has sparked a critical debate not only at the legal level, but also across the science, management and policy literature. Whereas IP studies were once for the law academics, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]