Rex Shoyama

Book Review — ­Global Copyright: Three Hundred Years Since The Statute Of Anne, From 1709 To Cyberspace

Rex Shoyama is a Legal Product Developer at Thomson Reuters and an MI candidate in the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. He was IP Osgoode’s Assistant Director from 2008 to 2010. The following is an excerpt from a forthcoming book review in the Intellectual Property Journal. The Statute of Anne is often referred to […]

Social networks want to hang out with each other, but on their own terms

Rex Shoyama is a Visiting Professor and the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. The general presumption in the Web 2.0 world is that a greater level of sharing and interoperability is a better thing.  However, the method in which this sharing is attained should not be ignored as it can have significant legal ramifications.  Rushing […]