From "Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright": Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda

For anyone interested in a sneak preview of this new book edited by Michael Geist, you'll find the introductory chapter available on the Irwin Law website. From "Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright": Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda will be issued by Irwin Law this month and we should have a both a print and […]

Some Recently Released Intellectual Property Resources

Michel-Adrien Sheppard, Reference Librarian at the Supreme Court of Canada, alerted us over on sLaw this week to a couple of newly released intellectual property resources. The first is WIPO Lex a "a one-stop search facility for national laws and treaties on intellectual property (IP) of WIPO, WTO and UN Members." Searches on the texts […]

Digital Locks and the Fate of Fair Dealing in Canada

Our own Prof. Carys Craig has recently published the article "Digital Locks and the Fate of Fair Dealing in Canada: In Pursuit of 'Prescriptive Parallelism'" in the Journal of World Intellectual Property (2010). A pre-peer reviewed version of the article is available on SSRN.  Here's the abstract of the article: "The enactment of anti-circumvention laws […]

Law Library Journal, v. 102, no. 2 Now Available

The latest issue of the Law Library Journal published by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) is now available online. Volume 102, Number 2 includes this great set of general articles: Cornerstones of Law Libraries for an Era of Digital-Plus / John Palfrey Time to Blossom: An Inquiry into Bloom's Taxonomy as a Hierarchy […]