IP Osgoode Goes To Ottawa To Host International Conference On Copyright Law

Does Canada have anything to learn from Europe?  This is the question posed by IP Osgoode’s international conference on European perspectives on copyright law chaired by Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino, an Associate Professor, and Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, the Intellectual Property Law and Technology Program at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University. The […]

Crookes v Newton: SCC Holds That Hyperlinking Was Not Defamatory

Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. Today, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in Crookes v Newton, which considers whether the author of a website article can be liable for defamation by hyperlinking to defamatory material on the Internet.

European Libraries And Copyright Owners Reach Understanding On Out-Of-Commerce Works

Brent Randall is a JD candidate at the University of Ottawa. The European Comission recently facilitated the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between European libraries, publishers, authors and their collecting societies.  The MOU sets out key principles that allow cultural institutions in Europe, such as libraries, an easier way to digitizing out-of-commerce books […]

A Micro-Benefit For Small Businesses Under The America Invents Act

Leslie Chong is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, and is currently enrolled in Professor Ikechi Mgbeoji’s Patents class, in Fall 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. Touted as the most significant development in American patent law since 1952, the […]

Ultramercial Patent Appeal Keeps Door Open For Future Software Patents

Mark Bowman is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled in Ultramercial v Hulu that a process displaying copyright media to a user in exchange for displaying an advertisement for a product over the internet is not too abstract to be patented.