Jennifer Webb is a first year JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and currently enrolled in the course Law & Social Change: Law & Music, in Winter 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. Although the definition of cloud computing can […]
Pascale Chapdelaine is a PhD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and a member of IP Osgoode. Her current research seeks to define and substantiate consumers’ rights with respect to copies of copyrighted works that consumers lawfully access. In a Brief submitted to the Legislative Committee on Bill C-32, I offered some comments on the […]
Leslie Chong is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Deloitte, a global consultancy firm, has recently begun putting together a global copyright database that is aimed at simplifying the current system being used to calculate and distribute royalties in the music industry. Formally referred to as the “Global Repertoire Database” (GRD), it has […]
Mark Kohras is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Universal Music and Sony Music UK have both announced that they will soon deploy a new business strategy for downloaded music. The strategy (termed “on air, on sale”) will see new albums available for download the same day they debut on the radio. Previously, […]
Professor David Vaver is a member of IP Osgoode, a Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, an Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford, an Emeritus Fellow of St. Peter’s College at Oxford and former Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre. The unauthorized publication by two of the Aga Khan’s followers of a […]
Mark Kohras is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On 13 January 2011, the Artmob research project hosted a demonstration of the beta version of their software. Members of the community were invited to provide feedback on the intellectual property principles the software attempts to address. The software seeks to focus on a […]
Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University. Jane Ginsburg, Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at Columbia University and IP Osgoode International Advisory Council member, has released a paper on the liability faced by operators of sites which host user-generated content under US copyright law. The Digital Millennium Copyright […]
Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In this digital era where authors and creators are scrambling to regain a hold on the copyright in their works, Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino’s new book, Copyright, Contracts, Creators: New Media, New Rules, is a timely and compelling contribution to the world of copyright literature. […]
Stuart Freen is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Sony Computer Entertainment America has launched a legal action against a number of computer hackers in an attempt to halt the proliferation of a Playstation 3 security breach. Last month two hacking groups cracked the PS3’s technological protection measures, potentially allowing users to play […]
Stuart Freen is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and a former Artmob research assistant. On January 13th, the York University based research project Artmob will host a demonstration of its content management software and begin a new round of beta testing. Artmob is an initiative to develop a multimedia digital archiving system […]