Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode.
As the commentary on Bill C-32 continues to take shape, the one issue that is getting the most attention (and certainly not unlike the other legislative attempts in Bill C-60 and Bill C-61) is again the issue of technological protection measures or what is often [...]

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Steven Zuccarelli is a 2012 JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.
[Update: June 11, 2010, 8:41 am - the text below is an updated version of this blog post. Inadvertently an early draft was posted and we have replaced it with a corrected version.]
The recently introduced Copyright Modernization Act (Bill C-32) has been under a [...]

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Professor Carys Craig (Osgoode Hall Law School) has a new paper available on SSRN. Her article is described below.
The enactment of anti-circumvention laws in Canada appears imminent and all but inevitable. This article considers the threats posed by technical protection measures and anti-circumvention laws to fair dealing and other lawful uses of protected works, and [...]

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Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Professor Emir Aly Crowne-Mohammed and Yonatan Rozenszajn argue in their article, DRM Roll Please: Is Digital Rights Management Legislation Unconstitutional in Canada? that the Digital Rights Management (DRM) Provisions in Bill C-61 are ultra vires (Latin for “beyond the powers”) of Parliament’s power under the [...]

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