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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Phil Goldbach 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. Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of Apple Inc., died on October 5, […]
Courtney Doagoo is a doctoral student at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. In November 2010, UK Prime Minister David Cameron commissioned Ian Hargreaves, Professor and Chair of Digital Economy at Cardiff University to carry out an independent Report regarding the current state of intellectual property law in the UK and to specifically assess […]
Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, the Founder and Director of the new IP Intensive Program, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Twitter community has over 100 million active users and I am pleased to announce that we have joined those ranks. Follow IP Osgoode on Twitter […]
IP Osgoode is pleased to announce its 2011-2012 IPilogue Editorial Team. As many of you know, IPilogue is the first online review of its kind, featuring thoughtful intellectual property law and technology blog posts by student editors as well as by scholars and experts from around the world. We are an interdisciplinary forum, exploring wide-ranging […]
Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. In light of the introduction on September 29, 2011, of Bill C-11, the current copyright reform bill in Canada, we would like to highlight again commentary by Carys Craig, Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and Member of IP Osgoode, on issues raised by Bill […]