With the latter portion of the summer now upon us here in Canada, IP Osgoode will be slowing down its volume of blog posts, updates and newsletters slightly over the rest of the July and August.  We will not be taking a complete break and will continue to update our site with news and blog […]

Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino (Osgoode Hall Law School) has authored a new book entitled “Copyright, Contracts, Creators – New Media, New Rules”.  The book is briefly described below. The digital world has put content within arm’s reach of desire. No longer can an author be satisfied that her intellectual property is safely encased in a bound […]

Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School On July 6th, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled in favour of importers of soy meal from Argentina, soy meal that was produced from the Roundup Ready soybean patented by Monsanto.  In its decision (C-428/08 Monsanto Technology LLC v Cefetra BV and Others) […]

Michael John Long is an LLM candidate advancing to the PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School On the morning of July 1st a common thread rippled throughout my email inbox; the topic related to movie streaming sites, or perhaps better said, a lack thereof.  After a few key strokes I learned that this streaming website […]

Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. To help protect authors, the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 provided for inalienable termination rights, rights unique to the United States. An inalienable termination right means that when an author assigns their copyright rights to a publisher, and even if that assignment agreement stipulates […]

Robert Dewald is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School The race for political office is competitive and fraught with risk where adversaries seek out support by advertising and creating political platforms to appeal to the majority of voters.  As the cost of political campaigns mount, politicians on the campaign trail seek advantages whenever […]