Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Along with the large amount of copyrighted music that gets copied in Canada without compensating the musician, there are attempts to make sure that some money goes back to Canadian musicians. For example, every time you buy blank media such as a CD or […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has recently held that the U.S. Postal Service should compensate the sculptor of a column of marching soldiers at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington for an image on a 37-cent stamp. A photo […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Privacy Commissioner of Canada (Jennifer Stoddart) recently delivered a speech entitled "The future of privacy regulation" at the 11th Annual Privacy and Security Conference held in Victoria, British Columbia. In her speech, she described the changes that have occurred in cyberspace over the […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The British case Burrows v. Smith was recently noted by the 1709 copyright blog. In this case, a computer games designer (Stuart Burrows) tries to claim ownership of his own work after having already sold it to a prior employer. Burrows developed an initial […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In a recent Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice article, Jeremy Phillips writes about how a 'repeat order' is one of the most sought after goals in business, which signals that the business has done something right. A 'repeat order' is defined as […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Many thanks to Bijan Soleymani, a M. Eng Candidate at McGill University. In a recent post, the internationally renowned security technologist and author Bruce Schneier proposed a “taxonomy” of social networking data. In this taxonomy, he divides social networking data into five categories: Service […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Many thanks to Bijan Soleymani, a M. Eng Candidate at McGill University. [Note: This article includes non-Latin characters (such as Chinese language characters). The ability to view such text will depend on your internet browser settings.] IDNs vs Internationalized TLDS = fully vs partly […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The recent Ontario case R. v. Cuttell, 2009 ONCJ 471 concerns the issue of online privacy, more specifically the issue as to what the privacy expectations are in regards to finding a user’s name and physical address based on their IP address. In this […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On September 21, 2009, The New York Times featured an article entitled “Patent Auctions Offer Protections to Inventors”. This article is about the story of a small-inventor firm called Zoltar Satellite Alarm Systems and their battles with big corporations over its patented inventions. In […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School Last Tuesday, the British Columbia Court of Appeal affirmed an important precedent-setting decision of the British Columbia Supreme Court regarding online defamation in Crookes v. Newton., 2009 BCCA 392. In the decision, Justice Saunders and Bauman found against the plaintiff Wayne Crookes who argued […]