Nathan Fan is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School Yesterday, Netflix launched its leading Internet movie subscription service in Canada, hoping to add “meaningfully to the entertainment choices available to Canadian consumers”. For $7.99 a month, Netflix is offering unlimited streaming of thousands of movies and TV shows to anyone with a broadband […]
Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School About 3 years ago, when I decided to join forces with Catherine Ng and Lionel Bently, in editing a collection of essays, The Common Law of Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of David Vaver, I could […]
Nathan Fan is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School In a decision with “big brother” dimensions, the 9th Circuit on August 12, 2010 affirmed a ruling that the Fourth Amendment right is not violated when law enforcement agents enter a driveway without a warrant to plant a surveillance device on one’s car. With […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has pointed to US polling showing that as much as 45 percent of employers use social networking sites when scrutinizing job candidates. This didn’t surprise me, as I happen to know someone whose full-time job was […]
Ivy Tsui is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School On August 23rd, 2010, American human embryonic stem cell (hESC) researchers suddenly found themselves banished from their labs, due to District Court Judge Royce Lamberth‘s issuance of an injunction halting their National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding. The injunction, which led to the suspension […]
Vincent Doré is a JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and Schulich School of Business Facebook, whose 500 million users make it the world’s largest social network, is engaged in several intellectual property disputes. While the company has, at times, adopted more defensive stances (see, eg, here and here), it has now started to […]
Tiffany Wong is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader from Nevada, is struggling in his bid for re-election against Sharron Angle, a Republican endorsed by the Tea Party Express. Alongside the usual political mudslinging, the two are also embroiled in an intellectual property battle. Angle once had […]
Nathan Fan is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School In a recent op-ed piece in the Montreal Gazette, Maia Davies gave her support for the new TPM provisions included in the Bill C-32 copyright reform proposals. Her argument represents the views of many creators in the country: musicians ought to be compensated for […]
Stuart Freen is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School The Montreal Gazette recently published an op-ed piece by musician Maia Davis discussing the music industry and lost profits due to file sharing. In it, Davis laments that musicians cannot currently make a decent living selling music due to an atmosphere of entitlement amongst […]
Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School Welcome back to another vibrant year at IP Osgoode! Time certainly has flown by since Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law and Technology Program launched a couple of years ago. We are extremely proud of the diverse contributions we […]