The IPilogue is IP Osgoode’s online journal of IP Law and Technology. It publishes analysis and commentary on current pressing intellectual property, technology, privacy and related legal issues. The IPilogue features curated contributions from students, scholars, and experts within the Osgoode community, from our network of affiliated researchers and partners, as well as from professionals and scholars in disciplines outside of law.
Editor in Chief: Prof. Carys Craig (ccraig@osgoode.yorku.ca)
Submission inquiries: iposgoode@osgoode.yorku.ca
Ivy Tsui is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Sabam v. Scarlet poses an important question to online Internet Service Provider (ISP) – should an ISP filter and block internet content to prevent copyright infringements?
Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University. On April 20, 2011, the UK High Court released its decision in the judicial review of the Digital Economy Act. The Act was challenged on five grounds by two prominent British internet service providers (ISPs), TalkTalk and BT. Justice Parker largely rejected their submissions, with the […]
Kirk M. Baert and Jonathan Bida of Koskie Minsky LLP are class counsel in this matter. On May 2, 2011, Justice Carolyn Horkins of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice approved the settlement of the class action Heather Robertson v. ProQuest, CEDROM, Toronto Star Newspapers, Rogers and Canwest, worth approximately $7.9 million. Class counsel provides […]
Amelia Manera is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The concept of collective rights of Indigenous Peoples with regards to intellectual property rights is just one of the topics under discussion at the Eighteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetics Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) being held at […]
Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University. On April 20th, 2011, disappointed gamers discovered they could no longer connect to the PlayStation Network. While Sony initially blamed the outage on technical problems, it was later revealed that the service had been deliberately hacked. The incident has sparked a flurry of activity among government […]
Dan Whalen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Canada Gazette published amendments to the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations, which include much-anticipated provisions for Extraordinary Use New Drugs (EUNDS). This addition is aimed at empowering Canada to prevent and respond to the threat of disease outbreaks and align its approach […]
Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. Leave has been granted to, essentially, the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada on the K-12 Tariff Case. The decision on appeal was rendered by the Federal Court of Appeal.
Matt Londale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University. On April 13, 2011, US authorities seized 29 domain names and 5 computers located in several US states in an attempt to break up a cybercriminal ring believed to have stolen millions of dollars from US residents through the use of malicious software called Coreflood. FBI […]
Ivy Tsui is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. After the Huffington Post was sold to AOL for $315 million in February, former HuffPost blogger Jonathan Tasini filed a lawsuit against AOL/Huffington Post and co-founders, Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer, for “unjust enrichment and deceptive business practices.”
Leslie Chong is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Lord Neuberger, the Master of the Rolls, recently gave a speech to the Judicial Studies Board Annual Lecture entitled “Open Justice Unbound?” where he addressed current judicial developments in the UK dealing with open justice and freedom of speech, in particular, the rise in […]