Kalen Lumsden is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and currently enrolled in the course Law & Social Change: Law & Music, in Winter 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. Over 30 days in January and February of 2011, Google received […]
Adam Heckman is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and currently enrolled in the course Law & Social Change: Law & Music, in Winter 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. In a recent ruling, the Federal Court of Australia […]
Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University. Andrew Ainsworth fabricated suits of Imperial Stormtrooper armour for the filming of Star Wars. Decades later, he began selling reproductions to fans. Lucasfilm Limited sued Mr. Ainsworth in a California court for copyright infringement. The case made its way across the world to the UK and […]
Tracy Ayodele is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and currently enrolled in the course Law & Social Change: Law & Music, in Winter 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. Former Bill C-32’s introduction of provisions regarding “digital locks” or “technological […]
Sara Jackson is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and currently enrolled in the course Law & Social Change: Law & Music, in Winter 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. Motorola Mobility made what is considered a strategic investment in Catch Media earlier […]
Nora Sleeth is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and currently enrolled in the course Law & Social Change: Law & Music, in Winter 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. It is no secret that the file-sharing phenomenon is a frequently […]
Dan Whalen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Among the nearly 500 bills that died with the end of the 40th Canadian Parliament last Friday was Bill C-393, Canada’s Act to amend the Patent Act. The bill proposes to modify Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR), itself an amendment to the Patent […]
Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. On the occasion of his retirement from the bench, we would like to commend The Rt Hon Lord Justice Robin Jacob, of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales (and member of IP Osgoode’s International […]
Jenna Newman is a graduate of the Master of Publishing program at Simon Fraser University. The long-awaited ruling on the proposed Google Books settlement is out: the court has rejected the settlement. So many serious concerns were voiced by potential class members as well as scholars, librarians, the US Department of Justice, other nations—on questions […]
Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. It’s true what they say: there is no two without three. With Harper’s visit to the Governor General today, the Canadian Government, or rather, the government that has insisted it be addressed as “the Harper Government” […]