Danny Titolo is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. An agreement has recently been made between the largest music, television and motion picture companies and the leading Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to create the “copyright alert” system. The main purpose of this system is to notify subscribers when their accounts are being used […]

Andrew Baker is a LLB/BCL candidate at McGill University Faculty of Law. WIPO members have recently met to discuss a potential treaty for the disabled that would create minimum exceptions in copyright laws to facilitate access to copyrighted works by persons who are disabled, and permit the sharing of accessible works across borders.

Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. Victoria Espinel, the US Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, in a post on the White House Blog, commends an agreement between Internet service providers and entertainment companies to cooperate to combat online infringement.

Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode and Taylor Vanderhelm is a JD candidate at the University of Alberta. We, at IP Osgoode, are pleased to announce our new partnership with our friends at MediaLaws, www.medialaws.eu. MediaLaws is a law and policy blog based in Italy which focuses on addressing new trends in […]

Brent Randall is a JD candidate at the University of Ottawa. In the biggest sale of technology patents in history, a consortium of Apple, Research In Motion, Microsoft, Ericsson, Sony and EMC, was the highest bidder for 6,000 patents from Nortel at a price of $4.5 billion.

Ashlee Froese is a branding lawyer and trade-mark agent at Keyser Mason Ball LLP. You can follow her on Twitter @brandfashionlaw or via her blog at www.canadafashionlaw.com. In June 2011, the Council of Fashion Designers of America (“CFDA”) hosted its annual Fashion Awards – the fashion world’s equivalent to the Oscars®.  Yet the biggest award […]