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)
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There's been much talk about poor leadership and wasteful spending with respect to eHealth in Ontario, but there has been little discussion about the fundamental issues associated with e-Health. Do you know who owns electronic health records? Is it the hospital? The doctor? The government? The patient? Aside from privacy and ethics, electronic health records […]
Michael John Long is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. He introduces his current thesis research below. ‘That is why there is no hope for the vagrant as he stands before the magistrate. Even if, through his stammerings, he should utter a cry to pierce the soul, neither the magistrate nor the public […]
Munyonzwe Hamalengwa is a Ph.D candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Intellectual Property Theory course. Feminism along with marxist, critical legal studies and critical race theories have mounted serious challenges to the inherited western legal tradition that has claimed that law is neutral and objective even though law, from time immemorial […]
George Nathanael is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Last week a French court ordered eBay to pay €1.7M in damages to LVMH Möet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, a holding company of a number of luxury goods brands, for failing to comply with an injunction set as part of an earlier ruling. The injunction, […]
Brian Chau is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. If everyone is the best, as per their advertising, would that mean that all products are merely average? This is a conundrum that serves as a key point of consumer frustration: How do we differentiate amongst products who all seem to be claiming the […]
Brandon Evenson is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On Tuesday, November 24th, the federal government tabled legislation mandating all ISPs to report child pornography. Bill C-58 requires that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) report the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or Internet Protocol (IP) address where child pornography may be available to the public. If […]
Billy Barnes is a JD Candidate at the University of Toronto. The Australian government recently rejected a recommendation by the Productivity Commission to repeal the Copyright Act's parallel import restrictions. Parallel import restrictions, which exist in most English-speaking countries including Canada, prevent the importation of copyrighted works without the consent of the local rightsholder. Australia's […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Many thanks to Bijan Soleymani, a M. Eng Candidate at McGill University. In a recent post, the internationally renowned security technologist and author Bruce Schneier proposed a “taxonomy” of social networking data. In this taxonomy, he divides social networking data into five categories: Service […]
Bob Tarantino is a lawyer in the Entertainment Law Group of Heenan Blaikie LLP. He holds graduate degrees in law from Osgoode Hall and the University of Oxford. This is the second part of Bob Tarantino's feature blog post on "performer's performances" in the Canadian Copyright Act. Part One can be read here. In Section […]
Peter (Zak) Zakrzewski is an adjunct professor at the Schulich School of Business at York University, where he co-created a course in Management of Innovation and Design. He also teaches design at The Centre for Creative Communications. We live at a unique time, a time of profound global economic, social and cultural shift. The pace […]