Kalen Lumsden is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. According to a report released last week by Sandvine, 29.7% of all downstream internet traffic during peak hours in North America is from the online video streaming service Netflix. Old-fashioned web browsing accounted for only 17% of traffic due to the high bandwidth requirements […]
Nora Sleeth is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Google’s advertising policy contains a set of guidelines intended to prevent illegal online pharmacies from advertising on the search engine. Adverts for these “rogue pharmacies” have nevertheless been spotted, leading Google to set aside $500 million to settle a potential investigation regarding whether Google […]
Danny Titolo is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Former Formula One president, Max Mosley, recently launched a complaint attempting to strengthen privacy protections for public figures. If the legal bid were successful, it would require news organizations to notify individuals who were the subject matter of a publication. The European Court of […]
Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. Professor Ann Bartow (University of South Carolina, School of Law) has recently published her research on “Copyright Law and the Commoditization of Sex”. Professor Bartow’s scholarship focuses on the intersection between intellectual property laws and public policy concerns, privacy and technology law, and feminist legal theory. […]
Taylor Vanderhelm is a JD candidate at the University of Alberta Online tracking of children has become an increasingly hot topic as concerned parents and privacy advocates push for greater protection of children’s online information, particularly amid revelations that popular kids’ sites install 30% more tracking tools than those targeting adults and Disney’s $3 million […]
Mark Kohras is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Every year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) releases its Special 301 Report. The report provides a detailed list of countries that the United States believes are deficient when it comes to intellectual property laws or enforcement. Perhaps it is no […]
Michael Gilburt is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. CBC News reports that a group of assailants known as the “Turkish defacers” successfully hacked into the web domain shared by the Ontario Court of Appeal, Superior Court of Justice and Ontario Court of Justice. On April 25, 2011, users who attempted to access […]
Mark Kohras is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. It’s election season again, and Canada’s political parties are out in force, campaigning across the country. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the recent attention IP and technology issues have been garnering among the Canadian public, most of the political parties have specifically included digital issues as […]
Brian Parker is a 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. Uncertainty in the efficacy of current Canadian copyright legislation to address […]
Giovanni Maria Riccio is an IP Osgoode research affiliate, a professor of private comparative law at the University of Salerno, and a Partner at SR & Partners, Rome, Italy. [Our apologies, this by-line has been updated to refer to Professor Riccio's current law firm affiliation.] According to a recent post by a French journalist, ARCEP, […]