Tiffany Wong is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. This year’s Canadian Music Week (March 9-13, 2011) transformed the ritzy, historical Royal York hotel in downtown Toronto into a multi-floor concert fest with large screens, concert lighting, stages and rows of seating in front of stages adorned with sofas and mics. Attending […]

Clara Klein is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Ellen Seidler is a reluctant anti-piracy advocate.  Though advocacy was not her initial intention when she released her film And Then Came Lola, (co-directed by Megan Siler), her first-hand experience with piracy and its heart-breaking effects on creators has compelled her to “speak out […]

Jason Sacha is a filmmaker studying law at Osgoode Hall. In some ways, crafting a solid short film is like writing a short blog. It goes through numerous iterations. It consists of a plethora of concepts and ideas that each could be explored as their own larger piece. And in no way will it ever […]

Lidiya Yermakova is a first year 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. The Copyright Modernization Act, otherwise known as […]

Dan Whalen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. An American radio program claimed to have discovered “one of the most jealously guarded trade secrets in the world”: the formula for Coca Cola. The eponymous company, which has gone to extraordinary lengths to guard the secret recipe since its creation in 1888, emphatically […]

Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University. U.S. copyright litigation corporation Righthaven is appealing an October ruling by a U.S. District Court judge that the copying of eight sentences of a newspaper article by a Las Vegas real estate agent qualifies as a “fair use” of the material under U.S. copyright law.