Pascale Chapdelaine is a Ph.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and a member of IP Osgoode. Pascale’s thesis focuses on the interaction between consumer law and copyright law.  What is the consumer entitled to do with musical recordings for her own personal use? Asking this question may appear to some, including consumers, as looking [...]

Posted in Contracts, Copyright, copyright reform, Fair Dealing
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In this blog, I examine the ambit of protection given to personality rights in Canadian law. I focus, in particular, on the common law tort of appropriation of personality. The tort was first articulated by the Ontario Court of Appeal in Krouse v. Chrysler Canada Ltd., (1973), 1 O.R. (2d) 225 (Ont. C.A.)  It allows [...]

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Afroditi Theodoridou is a PhD student at Osgoode Hall Law School. On April 16, 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision in favour of iParadigms who operates the “Turnitin Plagiarism Detection Service”. This online system evaluates the originality of submitted written assignments by comparing them with [...]

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Justin Lim is a student at Osgoode Hall Law School (J.D. Class of 2010) and Student Director of the International Legal Partnership I’m very excited to announce the collaboration between IP Osgoode and the International Legal Partnership (ILP) that will see the placement of Research Fellows with the People’s Patent Group (PPG) in Delhi, India. From [...]

Posted in Cross Border Issues, Patents, Pharmaceutical Drugs
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