Bradley Tartick is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is enrolled in Professor Ikechi Mgbeoji’s Patents class in Fall 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. The well-known fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has zealously protected its famous [...]

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Giovanni Maria Riccio is a Professor of Private Comparative Law at the University of Salerno, a Partner at Scorza Riccio & Partners, Rome, Italy, and an IP Osgoode Research Affiliate. He is also an Editor of MediaLaws: Law and Policy of the Media in a Comparative Perspective, www.medialaws.eu. The re-posting of this analysis is part of [...]

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Featured here is a paper by Abraham Drassinower, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. The paper’s abstract is reproduced. In his paper entitled, “Copyright Infringement as Compelled Speech”, Professor Abraham Drassinower offers a rights-based account of copyright law, providing an expansive conception of the public domain. Its central proposition is that a “work” [...]

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IP Osgoode is pleased to introduce the 2011-2012 Harold G. Fox Moot Team for Osgoode Hall Law School.

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