Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino (Osgoode Hall Law School) has authored a new book entitled “Copyright, Contracts, Creators – New Media, New Rules”. The book is briefly described below. The digital world has put content within arm’s reach of desire. No longer can an author be satisfied that her intellectual property is safely encased in a bound […]
Michael John Long is an LLM candidate advancing to the PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School On the morning of July 1st a common thread rippled throughout my email inbox; the topic related to movie streaming sites, or perhaps better said, a lack thereof. After a few key strokes I learned that this streaming website […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. To help protect authors, the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 provided for inalienable termination rights, rights unique to the United States. An inalienable termination right means that when an author assigns their copyright rights to a publisher, and even if that assignment agreement stipulates […]
Robert Dewald is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School The race for political office is competitive and fraught with risk where adversaries seek out support by advertising and creating political platforms to appeal to the majority of voters. As the cost of political campaigns mount, politicians on the campaign trail seek advantages whenever […]
Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Southern District Court of New York has sided with YouTube in a decision released on 23 June 2010. In his summary judgment, Judge Louis Stanton held that YouTube qualified as a “service provider” operating within the confines of the DMCA § 512 safe […]
Bob Tarantino is a lawyer in the Entertainment Law Group of Heenan Blaikie LLP. He holds graduate degrees in law from Osgoode Hall Law School and the University of Oxford. There are hopefully few who would object to efforts to simplify or make shorter the Copyright Act (Canada) – any piece of legislation which boasts […]
Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Everyone wants a piece of the copyright pie. Professional photographers and performers have felt, for some time, that they have been undercut in their entitlement to an equal slice of the rights pie and receive second-rate portions compared to their other creator siblings. With […]
Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode. As the commentary on Bill C-32 continues to take shape, the one issue that is getting the most attention (and certainly not unlike the other legislative attempts in Bill C-60 and Bill C-61) is again the issue of technological protection measures or what is […]
Michael John Long is an LLM candidate advancing to the PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School The leviathan known as the Google Books project may have far reaching consequences for international copyright law, as well as, the potential violation of antitrust law and the terms of international treaties, as a recent Globe and Mail article […]
Vincent Doré is a JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and Schulich School of Business. Bill C-32, Canada’s attempt at updating the Copyright Act, has received much attention in the digital space. The blogosphere is filled with commentary on all things copyright, and filtering out the noise is a challenge in itself. Predictably, much […]