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
Nathan Fan is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School In a decision with “big brother” dimensions, the 9th Circuit on August 12, 2010 affirmed a ruling that the Fourth Amendment right is not violated when law enforcement agents enter a driveway without a warrant to plant a surveillance device on one’s car. With […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has pointed to US polling showing that as much as 45 percent of employers use social networking sites when scrutinizing job candidates. This didn’t surprise me, as I happen to know someone whose full-time job was […]
Ivy Tsui is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School On August 23rd, 2010, American human embryonic stem cell (hESC) researchers suddenly found themselves banished from their labs, due to District Court Judge Royce Lamberth‘s issuance of an injunction halting their National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding. The injunction, which led to the suspension […]
Vincent Doré is a JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and Schulich School of Business Facebook, whose 500 million users make it the world’s largest social network, is engaged in several intellectual property disputes. While the company has, at times, adopted more defensive stances (see, eg, here and here), it has now started to […]
Tiffany Wong is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader from Nevada, is struggling in his bid for re-election against Sharron Angle, a Republican endorsed by the Tea Party Express. Alongside the usual political mudslinging, the two are also embroiled in an intellectual property battle. Angle once had […]
Nathan Fan is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School In a recent op-ed piece in the Montreal Gazette, Maia Davies gave her support for the new TPM provisions included in the Bill C-32 copyright reform proposals. Her argument represents the views of many creators in the country: musicians ought to be compensated for […]
Stuart Freen is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School The Montreal Gazette recently published an op-ed piece by musician Maia Davis discussing the music industry and lost profits due to file sharing. In it, Davis laments that musicians cannot currently make a decent living selling music due to an atmosphere of entitlement amongst […]
Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School Welcome back to another vibrant year at IP Osgoode! Time certainly has flown by since Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law and Technology Program launched a couple of years ago. We are extremely proud of the diverse contributions we […]
Vincent Doré is a JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and Schulich School of Business. Any billion-dollar lawsuit is bound to be a highly-charged event, especially when one of the parties makes an American icon, the Barbie doll. But Barbie is not the protagonist here. Instead, we turn our focus to the fashion doll […]
South of the border, the FCC has seemed toothless of late in its attempts to control Internet service provision. It longs for the vociferous support its Internet policies enjoyed just a few years ago. A Court of Appeals decision forbade the Commission from interfering with providers’ selective slowing/blocking, and months of subsequent secret net-neutrality-brokering meetings […]