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IP Osgoode Speaks Series Video: Copyright Exceptions as Users' Rights? An Empirical Critique

IP Osgoode would like to thank everyone who attended Dr. Emily Hudson's lecture, titled “Copyright Exceptions as Users' Rights? An Empirical Critique,” on September 29, 2014 at Osgoode Hall Law School. The video of the lecture is available here. You can also read Joseph Turcotte's reflections of Professor Hudson's presentation here.

SEPs and the Swinging Pendulum

American IP scholar Mark Lemley aptly characterized the dynamic relationship between IP and competition law as a swinging pendulum, in which antitrust enforcement of IP has cycled from under-protection to over-protection since the enactment of the Sherman Act in 1890. The United States Supreme Court’s recent affirmation of antitrust scrutiny in patent litigation indicated that […]