Danny Titolo is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. An agreement has recently been made between the largest music, television and motion picture companies and the leading Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to create the “copyright alert” system. The main purpose of this system is to notify subscribers when their accounts are being used […]
Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. Victoria Espinel, the US Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, in a post on the White House Blog, commends an agreement between Internet service providers and entertainment companies to cooperate to combat online infringement.
Taylor Vanderhelm is a JD candidate at the University of Alberta. Less than a month after announcing its foray into online movie rentals, Google’s YouTube has made another significant announcement by offering users the ability to license their work using Creative Commons. Google is heralding the move as a way to foster creativity and sharing […]
Taylor Vanderhelm is a JD candidate at the University of Alberta. New internet filtering rules set to commence in Turkey as of August 2011 have gathered international attention and raised the ire of many Turkish citizens recently. Turkey is set to introduce four new internet content filtering options: family, children, domestic, or standard as part […]
Michael Gilburt is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On May 3, 2011, a coalition of artists, led by FilmON founder and billionaire movie mogul Alki David, filed a copyright infringement suit against CBS Interactive, its subsidiary CNET, and the Lime Group, owners of the illegal file-sharing platform Limewire.
Danny Titolo is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Google has officially entered the online music storage and streaming field. The service is called Music Beta by Google, and allows users to upload music libraries to a personal storage locker online. From this storage locker or cloud, users can then download or stream […]
Dan Whalen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Since 2002, at least one company, Medical Justice, has been offering physicians the opportunity to quiet the online voices of dissatisfied patients through a unique manipulation of copyright law. As this service has become more popular among physicians, closer scrutiny has become warranted. Unfortunately for […]
Ivy Tsui is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Sabam v. Scarlet poses an important question to online Internet Service Provider (ISP) – should an ISP filter and block internet content to prevent copyright infringements?
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 […]
Leslie Chong is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In the Stern v. Does decision, a Californian court held that a short (23-word) email message sent through the LISTERV system did not qualify for copyright protection. This lawsuit stemmed from an email which read: “Has anyone had a problem with White, Zuckerman… cpas […]