Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The British case Burrows v. Smith was recently noted by the 1709 copyright blog. In this case, a computer games designer (Stuart Burrows) tries to claim ownership of his own work after having already sold it to a prior employer. Burrows developed an initial […]

Ariel Katz is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto. Ariel holds the Innovation Chair in Electronic Commerce and is the Director of the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy of the University of Toronto. Modern trademark scholarship and jurisprudence view trademark law as an institution aimed at improving […]

Bob Tarantino is a lawyer in the Entertainment Law Group of Heenan Blaikie LLP. He holds graduate degrees in law from Osgoode Hall Law School and the University of Oxford. A suitable name for an entertainment project can be critical to its success and can even enhance the aesthetic effect of the overall work.  In […]

Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama found himself in a strange place: Plastered across a 30-foot billboard in Times Square, hawking rain coats. The Weatherproof advertisement depicted a bold-looking Obama walking along the Great Wall of China with his hands dug into the pockets […]

Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Google recently surprised the world by announcing it may pull out of China. In the meantime, it would no longer enforce China’s information suppression and screening platform. Ultimately, if Google leaves China, it will do so because the country’s government would not tolerate Google […]

Peter Waldkirch is a second year LL.B. student at the University of Ottawa. The BBC recently reported on a proposed law in France about creating an online “right to forget” (Internet legislation would seem to be a hot issue in France; recent news includes the October 2009 acceptance of the graduated-response “3-strikes” HADOPI 2, and […]