Michael John Long is an LLM candidate advancing to the PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School In his recent essay, Do Patents Have Gender? , intellectual property scholar Dan L Burk admits upfront that the title question ‘strikes many readers as improbable, even nonsensical.’ However, the posited question aims to introduce just how an intellectual property system, […]
Michael John Long is an LLM candidate advancing to the PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School In a recent blog posted on the IP Osgoode website I considered the ruling in City of Ontario v. Quon; a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the issue of the privacy of employee text messages […]
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 […]
Michael John Long is an LLM candidate advancing to the PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School A short while ago, while sitting in the living room at the home of my nurse friend, I noticed a brand new smart phone sitting on her couch side table. I picked it up and began to play with […]
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 […]
Michael John Long is an LLM Candidate advancing to the PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School Lord Justice Jacob, sitting for the England and Wales Court of Appeal, recently stated in his ruling that he was obligated to award L’Oreal (the cosmetics giant behind ‘Because You’re Worth It!’) victory in the high profile trademark infringement […]
Michael John Long is an LLM candidate advancing to the PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School In their recent article, Copyright as Tort, authors Avihay Dorfman and Assaf Jacob argue towards a more comprehensive tort based analysis for copyright law than has been offered so far. The authors argue very matter of factly ‘that copyright […]
Michael Long is an LLM candidate advancing to the PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School On April 26 of this year the European Copyright Code, which is the product of an academic endeavour between notable copyright scholars across the European Union, was introduced via the Wittem Project Group website (http://www.copyrightcode.eu/). The Group is of the […]
Michael John Long is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. He introduces his current thesis research below. ‘That is why there is no hope for the vagrant as he stands before the magistrate. Even if, through his stammerings, he should utter a cry to pierce the soul, neither the magistrate nor the public […]
Michael John Long is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Intellectual Property Theory course. The Romance of the Public Domain, as Anupam Chander and Madhavi Sunder see it, is the presumption that the public domain is a landscape where everyone has equal access to reap the riches found therein. This ‘romance […]