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Copyright: [Skill and/or Talent?] and Judgment

A few weeks ago, while re-reading CCH Canadian Ltd. v Law Society of Upper Canada, [2004] 1 SCR 339 [hereafter CCH], I paused on a rather peculiar detail from this well-known Supreme Court decision.  Intrigued, after a brief search, I was surprised to find that no one in Canadian copyright discourse seemed to have expanded […]

A Note On Incentives, Rights, And The Public Domain In Copyright Law

Featured here is the first section of a paper by Abraham Drassinower, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. The paper was originally published in the Notre Dame Law Review. The full article can be found here. The idea that the purpose of copyright law is to provide incentives for creativity is among the most […]

Copyright Policy at Industry Canada: More Than a Dilbert Strip

This past fall, I was lucky to have the opportunity to intern at Industry Canada in Ottawa as part of the Osgoode IP Law and Technology Intensive Program. Industry Canada is a federal department that works to make Canada’s industrial sectors more competitive in the world market by attracting investors and traders.  The Department’s focus […]