Marsha Cadogan is a Ph.D candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Intellectual Property Theory course. Personality interest in Music Copyright - Commentary on Professor David D. Troutt's article "I Own Therefore I Am: Copyright, Personality, and Soul Music in the Digital Commons" (Professor Troutt's article is forthcoming in the Fordham Intellectual Property Journal.) Troutt’s article […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On September 21, 2009, The New York Times featured an article entitled “Patent Auctions Offer Protections to Inventors”. This article is about the story of a small-inventor firm called Zoltar Satellite Alarm Systems and their battles with big corporations over its patented inventions. In […]
Alex Gloor is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. A recent District Court decision out of California dismissed the case of NFL Hall of Fame player Jim Brown against video games giant Electronic Arts (EA), producers of the popular Madden football series. Mr. Brown alleged that EA misappropriated his "name, identity and likeness" […]
Abraham Drassinower is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. Few propositions are more frequently asserted in contemporary copyright discussion than the proposition that copyright is a balance between authors and users - a balance (as some like to say) between the incentive to create and the imperative to […]
Giuseppina D'Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode and an Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Our 2009-2010 academic year at IP Osgoode is off to a very busy start and we are very pleased to have our new team of IPilogue Editors on board. Our IPilogue Editors come from a wide variety […]
Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. You are shopping online, surfing on Blockbuster. The next day one of your friends on Facebook messages you, “hey Dave, nice choice in movies!” What has just happened here? Some might argue this is just amicable banter between close friends. Others might quickly point […]
Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The UK Ministry of Justice recently published a consultation paper entitled "Defamation and the internet: the multiple publication rule". The consultation revisits, as its name would suggest, the multiple publication rule currently in use in the UK in light of the internet and online […]
Peter Waldkirch is a second year LL.B. student at the University of Ottawa. Jack Kirby (1917-1994) is well-known to comic book fans as one of the most influential artists and authors in the history of the industry, particularly noted for his groundbreaking work with Marvel Comics during the 1960s. Kirby had a hand in the […]
Nirav Bhatt is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Recently the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services held that Prometheus’ patent claim methods for calibrating the proper dosage of thiopurine drugs, which are used for treating both gastrointestinal and non-gastrointestinal autoimmune diseases, […]
Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Luís Miguel Poiares Maduro, the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), concluded in a recent recommendation to the ECJ that Google’s AdWords system does not violate trademarks when it allows advertisers to select trademarks as keyword triggers for its advertisement service.