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Have Europeans Become Less Exhausted After Recent Copyright Decision?

Last week, the big news in the video game blogosphere was the reported sale of the world’s largest video game collection, comprising over 11,000 games, for more than $750,000 at auction. While the most salient fact of this story may be the magnitude of both the collection and the winning bid, the large numbers obscure a […]

Nice Classification of Trade-marks – Perhaps Not So Nice for Canadians

 As discussed in Allison McLean’s “Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes coming to the Trade-marks Act” June 5, 2014 post, significant changes to the Canadian Trade-marks Act were introduced in Bill C-31, the 2014 budget bill.  While the most controversial aspect of the trade-mark provisions of Bill C-31 is the removal of the need to claim or declare use in […]

A New Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility within the IGF

  The re-posting of this analysis is part of a cross-posting collaboration with MediaLaws: Law and Policy of the Media in a Comparative Perspective.   Two weeks ago, the Secretariat of the United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum (IGF) approved the creation of the Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility (DC PR). This new component of the IGF […]

July 1st Deadline – Canada’s IP Writing Challenge

The deadline to submit your entry to our 6th annual Canada’s IP Writing Challenge is fast approaching!  The winner from each category will receive a prize of $1000 (CAD), publication on the IP Osgoode website, and consideration for publication in the Canadian Intellectual Property Review and/or the Intellectual Property Journal.  The deadline to submit is […]