Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. ‘The Long Tail’, written by Chris Anderson refers to the alleged effect of online stores such as Netflix appealing to smaller niches. Individually these niches do not yield a large profit, but collectively (hence the long part) they can provide a handsome reward. Some […]
Nirav Bhatt is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. According to a report, AIDS, which is caused due to Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) killed more than 25 million people worldwide from 1981 to 2006. Already, over six million people with HIV/AIDS are dying because they have no access to lifesaving medicines. The current […]
Peter Waldkirch is a second year LL.B. student at the University of Ottawa. The Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Jennifer Stoddard, recently released her office's Annual Report to Parliament on the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). Several press outlets have covered the report. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada's (OPC) press […]
Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. America’s favourite hotel heiress Paris Hilton can now proceed with her litigation against Hallmark Cards over the unauthorized use of her picture and catchphrase “That’s hot”, according to a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Paris Hilton, who […]
George Nathanael is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In an article on Intellectual Property Watch, Javier Fernandez, a lawyer for CropLife Latin America, argues that better protection of regulatory data is necessary in order to foster innovation in the agricultural industry. In consideration of projections of an exploding global population, a decreasing […]
Douglas Cumming is an Associate Professor in Finance and Entrepreneurship at the Schulich School of Business, York University. Eileen Fischer is a Professor of Marketing at the Schulich School of Business, York University. In both developed and developing countries, governments are interested in fostering entrepreneurial activity in their economies. And increasingly, public policy makers are […]
Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. This past summer I was fortunate enough to work on Artmob, an interdisciplinary project here at York. Headed by Canada Research Chairs Rosemary Coombe and Christopher Innes along with Darren Wershler-Henry, Artmob is basically about building an online, open-source content management system for arts […]
Brian Chau is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. "Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago: they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today's richest men have made their money out of intellectual property" - Mark […]
Brandon Evenson is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. A recent case in the US has sent a clear message to US Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that they can be liable for secondary trade-mark infringement. All that is required is that the ISP knows or ought to have known that their customers were […]
Billy Barnes is a JD candidate at the University of Toronto. In a much publicized move, Amazon remotely deleted two books from users' Kindle e-book readers. It causes one to wonder what rights we actually have in our digital possessions in this increasingly connected world. As you quickly learn when you start studying IP law, property […]