Statute of Anne

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 […]

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 […]