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A Wait and See Approach to privacy in Genomics

A Wait and See Approach to privacy in Genomics

Virgil Cojocaru is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. deCODE Genetics, an Icelandic firm that offers customers private DNA tests has filed for bankruptcy. Customers would typically take a genetic sample from the inside of their cheek and would mail it to the address provided.  deCODE Genetics would calculate the chances of a person […]

FCF Charter avoids free culture clichés

FCF Charter avoids free culture clichés

Stuart Freen is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. I’ll admit it: When I went to the website for the Charter for Innovation, Creativity, and Access to Knowledge and watched the inane video prominently posted on the front page my first impression was that it was going to be a bit foolish. After studying […]

Pirates, Pirates Everywhere

Pirates, Pirates Everywhere

Peter Waldkirch is a second year LL.B. student at the University of Ottawa. Utter the words “online copyright infringement” and most people probably think of the mass distribution of popular music on peer-to-peer networks or Hollywood movies being downloaded through bittorrent. A recent brouhaha over the unauthorized use of photographs uploaded to Flickr (a photograph […]

Fear and Loathing in Seoul, Korea: ACTA’s Sixth Meeting

Fear and Loathing in Seoul, Korea: ACTA’s Sixth Meeting

Nathan Fan is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The world’s leading countries gathered again this year in Seoul, Korea for the sixth negotiation meeting for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). For those who do not yet know about ACTA, the negotiations are intended to culminate in a multi-lateral trade agreement that will assist […]

BRCA Gene Patents Lawsuit Lives On

BRCA Gene Patents Lawsuit Lives On

George Nathanael is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Earlier this month a United States District Court denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought forth against the USPTO, Myriad Genetics, and directors of the University of Utah Research Foundation. The suit had to do with patents covering the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 […]

When business meets academia – The commercialization and protection of IP at McMaster’s Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute

When business meets academia – The commercialization and protection of IP at McMaster’s Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute

Blake Moran is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. When you tell someone that you have an undergraduate degree in science, a masters degree in business, and have started studying law, they usually say something like “seems to me like you REALLY can’t make up your mind!”  But this summer, I finally got […]

The Inequitable Commons

The Inequitable Commons

Michael John Long is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Intellectual Property Theory course. The Romance of the Public Domain, as Anupam Chander and Madhavi Sunder see it, is the presumption that the public domain is a landscape where everyone has equal access to reap the riches found therein.  This ‘romance […]

Blanket Censorship: Limiting the Bycatch

Blanket Censorship: Limiting the Bycatch

Brian Chau is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. A significant problem that arises with internet censorship comes from the sheer volume and infinite forms of data generated on a daily basis across the world. An analogy can be drawn to the practical realities of commercial fishing – for every net cast into […]

31st International Commissioner Conference Promises Global Privacy Standard

31st International Commissioner Conference Promises Global Privacy Standard

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. […]