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Commentary and analysis on the latest developments in intellectual property, technology and privacy, featuring curated contributions from students, scholars, and experts within the Osgoode community.
Michael John Long is an LLM candidate advancing to the PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School In their recent article, Copyright as Tort, authors Avihay Dorfman and Assaf Jacob argue towards a more comprehensive tort based analysis for copyright law than has been offered so far. The authors argue very matter of factly ‘that copyright […]
Anjli Patel is an LLB Candidate at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law. Today’s post will be of interest to anyone who has ever extensively compared prices on big-ticket items before making a purchase. The US Supreme Court recently announced that it will review the case of Omega S.A. v. Costco Wholesale Corporation, 541 […]
Marcelo Thompson is a Research Assistant Professor in Law and Information Technology at the Faculty of Law of The University of Hong Kong and Acting Co-Director of its Law and Technology Centre. Without the usual diatribes of the political process; without the bickering and finger-pointing, earmarks and pork barrel provisions, a new Bill is being […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Granting summary judgment in favour of the music industry, a US federal court has found peer-to-peer file-sharing service LimeWire liable for copyright infringement. This judgment is yet another in a long line of cases that have established that distributing and maintaining a file-sharing service […]
Professor Carys Craig (Osgoode Hall Law School) has a new paper available on SSRN. Her article is described below. The enactment of anti-circumvention laws in Canada appears imminent and all but inevitable. This article considers the threats posed by technical protection measures and anti-circumvention laws to fair dealing and other lawful uses of protected works, […]
Vincent Doré is a JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and Schulich School of Business. Over 2000 people convened in Stratford, Ontario this week for Canada 3.0: Canada’s Premier Digital Media Forum. This 2-day conference was created in an effort to bring together the best minds from the digital media space to collaboratively develop […]
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