Guillaume Laroche is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Of all the great policy discussions that can be found in Ottawa on any given day, those seen last Friday, October 21, 2011, at IP Osgoode’s conference, “Can Canada Learn Anything From Europe? European Perspectives on Copyright Law in the Information Era” were certainly […]
Brent Randall is a JD candidate at the University of Ottawa. The European Comission recently facilitated the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between European libraries, publishers, authors and their collecting societies. The MOU sets out key principles that allow cultural institutions in Europe, such as libraries, an easier way to digitizing out-of-commerce books […]
Our conference titled, “Can Canada Learn Anything From Europe? European Perspectives on Copyright Law in the Information Era”, is taking place next Friday, October 21, 2011, at the Ottawa Convention Centre in Ottawa, Canada. The proceeding will also be transmitted by webcast to Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada. All are welcome to […]
Mekhala Chaubal is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. A recently-decided US case (Louis Vuitton Malletier SA v. Akanoc Solutions Inc.) has trumped Canada’s largest LVM settlement so far (Louis Vuitton Malletier SA v. Singga Enterprises Inc). While the company is arguably only protecting its market share as one of the world’s premier […]
Brian Chau is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In Canada and the United States, copyright owners may elect to recover an award of statutory damages for each work infringed instead of actual damages and profits. A wide range of statutory damages is possible and this has led to a series of troubling […]
Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. In light of the introduction on September 29, 2011, of Bill C-11, the current copyright reform bill in Canada, we would like to highlight again commentary by Carys Craig, Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and Member of IP Osgoode, on issues raised by Bill […]
Ben Farrow is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On September 12, 2011, the European Parliament extended the copyright term for performers from 50 to 70 years and implemented three important reforms to the copyright system by adopting an amendment to its existing copyright reform legislation, Directive 2006/116/EC on the term of protection […]
Brian Chau is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Conservative majority government has placed a new copyright reform bill, “An Act to amend the Copyright Act” on the Notice Paper earlier today. This new bill is expected to be introduced tomorrow.
IP Osgoode is hosting a symposium on copyright on Friday, October 21, 2011. The focus of the event is summed up in its title, “Can Canada Learn Anything from Europe? European Perspectives on Copyright Law in the Information Era”.
Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. Our own Carys Craig, Associate Professor and Member of IP Osgoode, has recently released a book on copyright that has already made a splash among legal circles. It is entitled, Copyright, Communication and Culture: Towards a Relational Theory of Copyright Law (Edward Elgar, 2011).