George Nathanael is a second-year JD student at Osgoode Hall Law School On a beautiful Friday at the Schulich School of Business, IP Osgoode presented “The Intellectual Property Bargain: Consumer Perspectives in a Global Economy“. This one-day conference brought together academics, practicing lawyers, and students to participate in presentations and discussions that aimed to infuse […]
Scott Beeser is a Patent Attorney at Apotex Inc. in Toronto. He obtained a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Utah and a LLB from Osgoode Hall in 2002. He is a registered Canadian Patent and Trade-mark Agent. Prior to joining Apotex, Dr. Beeser was an associate at a IP-boutique in Toronto. Scott answered […]
In response to the complaint against Bell Sympatico (Bell) by the Canadian Internet policy and Public Interest Clinic, based at the University of Ottawa, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner produced a report of findings dated August 13, 2009. The complaint launched under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) alleged 1) that […]
According to blogs such as Citmedia and mainstream news outlets like CNN and the New York Times, Wikipedia will soon begin requiring that all changes to articles on living people be approved by an aristocracy of established editors before going live. The move has been criticized in almost all these stories. I was working on […]
Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode and an Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Welcome back to another vibrant academic year at IP Osgoode! Since the launch of Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law and Technology Program last October, we have inspired a fantastic range of diverse contributions in our blog, IPilogue, […]
Chris Anderson is editor-in-chief of Wired, which has won a National Magazine Award under his tenure. He wrote an article in the magazine entitled “The Long Tail”, which he later turned into a book called “The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More” (2006). In this blog post, I will […]
Tiffany Wong is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Overlooking the Harbourfront in downtown Toronto, I had the chance to work closely in May 2009 with in-house legal counsel at Yahoo! Canada – one of the largest internet companies with a global reach in distributing websites and online services. Yahoo! Canada keeps the […]
Lesley Ellen Harris is an Osgoode Hall Law School Alumnus (’85) who is a copyright lawyer/consultant and works on legal, business, and strategic issues in the publishing, content, entertainment, Internet, and information industries. She is the editor of the Copyright & New Media Law Newsletter and the author of several books. Her newest book is […]
The costs associated with health care in developed nations are already huge and continue to grow. In Canada, the total health spending per capita is around $4000. That number is higher in the U.S., where the current debate over health care reform has been framed by President Obama in terms of making the system more […]
Roger S. Fisher, Ph.D., LL.B. teaches a course on copyright policy at York University to third year Fine Arts students. He is a member of the Bar of Ontario and currently represents a non-profit academic journal that is one of over two hundred third- and fourth-party defendants in a class action lawsuit involving a copyright […]