Brandon Evenson is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Most advertisements are disappointing. They suffer from gimmicky jingles, exaggerated punchlines, and fake endorsements. Yet every once-in-a-while there comes an ad that is witty, sophisticated, and original. Such an ad, more often than not, parodies popular culture. But what happens when the ad runs […]
Brandon Evenson is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The United States Supreme Court recently decided the case of Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick, holding that § 411(a) of the Copyright Act is not jurisdictional. At issue were the rights of freelance authors in their unregistered works. This case is part of the aftermath […]
Brandon Evenson is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Technology blogs are still buzzing over Apple’s recently filed lawsuit against HTC for patent infringement. In their filing, Apple claims that various HTC phones (including but not limited to phones running the Google Android OS) infringe a number of Apple’s patents currently used in […]
Brandon Evenson is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Patent Law course. A patent system is a balancing act. On one hand, a patent system provides incentives to innovate, commercialize, and disclose innovations to society. On the other hand, a patent system discourages the proliferation of innovations in society […]
Brandon Evenson is a 2010 JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On February 11, 2010, IP Osgoode and the Hennick Center for Business and Law hosted their second conference on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Commercialization. Similar to last year’s conference the speaking panel and audience were composed of various stakeholders from government, industry and […]
Brandon Evenson is a 2010 JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Over the last two months, Professor Jim Gibson from the University of Richmond School of Law, has written two articles identifying how Copyright law has for many centuries, and to this day, been used as a tool to censor works.
Brandon Evenson is a 2010 JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In November of last year, as part of the 31st International Data Commissioners Conference, privacy experts from around the world met in Madrid Spain to draft an international standard for the protection of privacy and personal data. It does not come as a […]
Brandon Evenson is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, an epic copyright war was being waged across the world…. This, perhaps, might have been a better introduction for the UK High Court of Justice Court of Appeal (Civil Division) in one of their […]
Brandon Evenson is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On Tuesday, November 24th, the federal government tabled legislation mandating all ISPs to report child pornography. Bill C-58 requires that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) report the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or Internet Protocol (IP) address where child pornography may be available to the public. If […]
Brandon Evenson is a 2010 JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On November 3rd, over 1000 privacy experts from 50 nations met in Madrid and drafted an agreement on international standards for the protection of privacy and personal data. Privacy organizations have touted the agreement as an expansive statement on the future of privacy. […]