Kalen Lumsden is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Committee on the Impact of Copyright Policy on Innovation in the Digital Era is using some of the innovations of the digital era to vet drafts of research papers it commissioned. Through posting the drafts on its blog and asking for comments, the […]
Danny Titolo is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. “Informing”, “well written”, “insight[ful]”, and “important contribution” (p. 93) are just a few of the words used by Professor Teresa Scassa, Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Vice-Dean Research at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, in her recent review of Copyright, […]
Taylor Vanderhelm is a JD candidate at the University of Alberta. The European Commission recently revealed its proposal to overhaul the European Union’s intellectual property law regarding orphan works. The move is seen by many as an attempt to update and unify the European Union’s standards in light of technological advancements.
Michael Gilburt is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On May 18, 2011, a review committee led by Cardiff University Professor Ian Hargreaves released a report that deemed the UK’s intellectual property (IP) regime obsolete in the digital age. Prime Minster David Cameron commissioned the report following claims made by the founders of […]
Andrew Baker is an LLB/BCL candidate at McGill University Faculty of Law. The EU Parliament has just released a report (see article 70) calling on the EU Commission to support a WIPO treaty proposal that would create binding legal norms for copyright exceptions for accessible formats of print material.
Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. Professor Ann Bartow (University of South Carolina, School of Law) has recently published her research on “Copyright Law and the Commoditization of Sex”. Professor Bartow’s scholarship focuses on the intersection between intellectual property laws and public policy concerns, privacy and technology law, and feminist legal theory. […]
Mark Kohras is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Every year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) releases its Special 301 Report. The report provides a detailed list of countries that the United States believes are deficient when it comes to intellectual property laws or enforcement. Perhaps it is no […]
Ivy Tsui is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. After the Huffington Post was sold to AOL for $315 million in February, former HuffPost blogger Jonathan Tasini filed a lawsuit against AOL/Huffington Post and co-founders, Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer, for “unjust enrichment and deceptive business practices.”
Mark Kohras is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. It’s election season again, and Canada’s political parties are out in force, campaigning across the country. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the recent attention IP and technology issues have been garnering among the Canadian public, most of the political parties have specifically included digital issues as […]
Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. The WIPO Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) has released a “Scoping Study on Copyright and Related Rights and the Public Domain”, prepared by Professor Séverine Dusollier of the University of Namur, Belgium. The Study recognizes that many business models now thrive on the public domain, […]