Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School The lights are dim and a sea of chatter envelopes the venue’s impatient audience. A spot light suddenly snaps into action – a beacon calling for attention that silences the crowd. The opening act strolls confidently to centre stage. With microphone in hand, the […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In a recent English case involving the Times Newspapers Ltd (“Times”) and Detective Sergeant Gary Flood (“DS Flood”), the Court of Appeal interpreted the “Reynolds defence” to defamation and also decided that a newspaper publishing allegations on its website after it was communicated to […]
Vincent Doré is a JD/MBA candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and Schulich School of Business. In a recent trademark dilution case, Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski wrote an eloquent opinion that clearly and explicitly delineates where ordinary use ends and dilution begins. The question in this recent Ninth Circuit case (Visa Int’l Serv. […]
Robert Dewald is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School Online keyword advertising, using internet search engines such as Google and Yahoo!, continues to be a highly contentious area of the law. Litigation involving trademark infringement by competing companies in keyword advertising campaigns continues in Canada and around the world. In Canada, it appears […]
Stu Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School The Federal Court of Appeal recently released a decision holding that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are not considered to be broadcasters within the meaning of the Broadcasting Act and are therefore not subject to the same levies that are imposed on traditional TV and […]
With the latter portion of the summer now upon us here in Canada, IP Osgoode will be slowing down its volume of blog posts, updates and newsletters slightly over the rest of the July and August. We will not be taking a complete break and will continue to update our site with news and blog […]
Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino (Osgoode Hall Law School) has authored a new book entitled “Copyright, Contracts, Creators – New Media, New Rules”. The book is briefly described below. The digital world has put content within arm’s reach of desire. No longer can an author be satisfied that her intellectual property is safely encased in a bound […]
Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School On July 6th, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled in favour of importers of soy meal from Argentina, soy meal that was produced from the Roundup Ready soybean patented by Monsanto. In its decision (C-428/08 Monsanto Technology LLC v Cefetra BV and Others) […]
Michael John Long is an LLM candidate advancing to the PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School On the morning of July 1st a common thread rippled throughout my email inbox; the topic related to movie streaming sites, or perhaps better said, a lack thereof. After a few key strokes I learned that this streaming website […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. To help protect authors, the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 provided for inalienable termination rights, rights unique to the United States. An inalienable termination right means that when an author assigns their copyright rights to a publisher, and even if that assignment agreement stipulates […]