traditional knowledge
Announcing the Winner of Canada’s IP Writing Challenge 2017
IP Osgoode and the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) are thrilled to announce the winner of the ninth annual edition of Canada’s IP Writing Challenge:
Pride and Property: IP Law, Traditional Knowledge, and Cultural Heritage
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single culture in possession of good traditional knowledge must be in want of intellectual property rights.”
Poverty in the developing world: Should TRIPs really be repealed?
Tamsin Thomas is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Intellectual Property Theory course. In his article, “Some Realism about Indigenism”, Professor Michael Davis argues that TRIPs “is the biggest disaster faced by the Third World since the end of the territorial-based colonial era.” In the context of protecting traditional knowledge, he […]
The Inequitable Commons
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 […]