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Appropriately Approaching Appropriation: Osgoode Professors On Feminist Alternatives To Postcolonial Intellectual Property Issues

Mekhala Chaubal is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Our very own Osgoode professors and feminist scholars, Rosemary Coombe and Carys Craig, presented a thought-provoking keynote entitled, “Copyright and the Moral Arts of Appropriation: Feminist and Postcolonial Perspectives”, at the Feminism and the Politics of Appropriation Conference hosted by the Women and Gender Studies […]

Thinking Through IP Strategy

Asad Ali Moten is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Here, he reports on a workshop he organized for clients and prospective clients of ventureLAB, while interning there as part of the inaugural offering of the Intellectual Property Law and Technology Intensive Program (IP Intensive) at Osgoode. On November 9, 2011, with the […]

A Primer On Measuring Music Copyright Infringement

Guillaume Laroche is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and a Graduate Student Member of IP Osgoode. Prior to entering law, he completed studies in music performance, composition and theory at the University of Alberta, the Schulich School of Music of McGill University, and in England. At the Society for Music Theory’s 2011 […]

Engineering The Future At York University

Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. On November 1, 2011, at an event titled, “Engineering The Future”, York University President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri announced a $25-million dollar transformative donation from Pierre Lassonde, Chair of Franco-Nevada Corporation, for an expanded School of Engineering at York’s Keele Campus.  The Faculty of Graduate Studies […]

Europe Visits Canada: What European Copyright Law Has To Offer

Guillaume Laroche is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Of all the great policy discussions that can be found in Ottawa on any given day, those seen last Friday, October 21, 2011, at IP Osgoode’s conference, “Can Canada Learn Anything From Europe? European Perspectives on Copyright Law in the Information Era” were certainly […]

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 […]

Reminder To RSVP For "European Perspectives On Copyright Law"

Our conference titled, “Can Canada Learn Anything From Europe?  European Perspectives on Copyright Law in the Information Era”, is taking place next Friday, October 21, 2011, at the Ottawa Convention Centre in Ottawa, Canada.  The proceeding will also be transmitted by webcast to Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada. All are welcome to […]

IP Osgoode Copyright Conference: Can Canada Learn Anything from Europe?

IP Osgoode is hosting a symposium on copyright on Friday, October 21, 2011.  The focus of the event is summed up in its title, “Can Canada Learn Anything from Europe? European Perspectives on Copyright Law in the Information Era”.

Rave Reviews for Professor Carys Craig

Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. Our own Carys Craig, Associate Professor and Member of IP Osgoode, has recently released a book on copyright that has already made a splash among legal circles.  It is entitled, Copyright, Communication and Culture: Towards a Relational Theory of Copyright Law (Edward Elgar, 2011).

Critical Issues in Fashion: An International Perspective

Courtney Doagoo is a doctoral student at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. Over sixty academics, scholars, practitioners, curators, designers, and authors representing more than a dozen countries came together from September 22 to 25, 2011, to mark the Inter-Disciplinary.Net’s 3rd Annual Global Conference on Fashion: Exploring Critical Issues at Mansfield College, Oxford University.