Clara Klein is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Ellen Seidler is a reluctant anti-piracy advocate. Though advocacy was not her initial intention when she released her film And Then Came Lola, (co-directed by Megan Siler), her first-hand experience with piracy and its heart-breaking effects on creators has compelled her to “speak out […]
Jason Sacha is a filmmaker studying law at Osgoode Hall. In some ways, crafting a solid short film is like writing a short blog. It goes through numerous iterations. It consists of a plethora of concepts and ideas that each could be explored as their own larger piece. And in no way will it ever […]
Lidiya Yermakova is a first year JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and currently enrolled in the course Law & Social Change: Law & Music, in Winter 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. The Copyright Modernization Act, otherwise known as […]
Dan Whalen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. An American radio program claimed to have discovered “one of the most jealously guarded trade secrets in the world”: the formula for Coca Cola. The eponymous company, which has gone to extraordinary lengths to guard the secret recipe since its creation in 1888, emphatically […]
Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University. U.S. copyright litigation corporation Righthaven is appealing an October ruling by a U.S. District Court judge that the copying of eight sentences of a newspaper article by a Las Vegas real estate agent qualifies as a “fair use” of the material under U.S. copyright law.
Lawrence Schwartz is a first year JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and currently enrolled in the course Law & Social Change: Law & Music, in Winter 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. IFPI has published its Digital Music Report […]
David Vaver is Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Osgoode Hall Law School and on the Advisory Board of IP Osgoode. Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Readers will be saddened to hear that William L. Hayhurst QC passed away on February 27, 2011 after a long illness. Bill Hayhurst […]
David Vaver is Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Osgoode Hall Law School and on the Advisory Board of IP Osgoode. A Note in the next issue of the Intellectual Property Journal, due out in April, reviews a recent case on Patent Office refusals to correct clerical errors: Repligen Corp. v. Canada (A.G.) 2010 FC […]
Global Copyright: Three Hundred Years Since the Statute of Anne, from 1709 to Cyberspace, edited by Professors Lionel Bently (member of IP Osgoode's International Advisory Council), Uma Suthersanen and Paul Torremans, celebrates the tri-centenary of modern copyright, which began with the enactment of the Statute of Anne by the British Parliament in 1709, and was soon followed […]
Ivy Tsui is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The UK Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has ruled that re-publishing Twitter messages in a national newspaper is not an invasion of privacy.