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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 […]

Osgoode Entertainment & Sports Law Association Launches Its Own Blog

Sarah Falzon and Lawrence Schwartz are JD candidates at Osgoode Hall Law School and Co-Presidents of the Entertainment & Sports Law Association at Osgoode. The Osgoode Entertainment and Sports Law Association (ESLA) recently launched its blog, www.esla-osgoode.ca. The blog was created as an association initiative to give students the opportunity to write about current issues […]

Digital Media, Freedom Of Expression, And The Evolution Of Journalism

Sue Gaudi is the Vice-President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at The Globe and Mail Inc. She presented the following talk at a lecture to students in IP Osgoode's internship program, the Intellectual Property Law and Technology Intensive Program (IP Intensive). We are very pleased that The Globe and Mail is hosting one of our […]

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 […]

Internet Governance v Internet Government

Luca Belli is a PhD candidate at Panthéon-Assas University (PRES Sorbonne Universités), Paris, and a member of the Steering Committee at MediaLaws, www.medialaws.eu. 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. [In September 2011], the India-Brazil-South-Africa Forum Dialogue (IBSA) gained the attention […]

Plagues, Pandemics And Patents: Legality And Morality[1] And Even Movies[2]

A. Samuel Oddi is a professor of Intellectual Property at the University of Akron School of Law. In prior articles,[3] I have tried to point out that developing countries, and particularly the least developed countries (LDCs), are not the intended or even incidental beneficiaries of the intellectual property system--particularly its internationalization under TRIPS.  I have primarily […]

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 […]

The Aftermath of Stanford v. Roche: Which Law of Assignments Governs?

Sean M. O’Connor is a Professor of Law, Faculty Director of the Law, Business & Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Washington School of Law, and a Research Affiliate of IP Osgoode.[1] [IP Osgoode: Professor O'Connor's full article on this topic will be published in issue 24:1 of the Intellectual Property Journal later this year.] […]

Crookes v Newton, 2011 SCC 47 – Hyperlinkers Not Liable For Linked Defamation

Daniel Burnett is a partner at Owen Bird Law Corporation and appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of the Respondent/Defendant, Jon Newton, in this matter. [IP Osgoode:  At our request, Robert Kasting, Barrister & Solicitor, who appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of the Appellants/Plaintiffs, Wayne Crookes and West Coast […]