Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law school.
Choreography is about dance moves. It is the arrangement of dance moves, usually in patterns, accompanied by music. Are these dance moves protected by copyright? The argument out there is that they are, even when placed in games.

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Tony Pak is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Intellectual Property Theory course.
In Neil Netanel’s recent book titled, “Copyright’s Paradox”, he advocates for a copyright system that puts freedom of expression at the forefront. He argues that copyright has been thought of as a property right despite the fact that it [...]

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Ren Bucholz is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Intellectual Property Theory course.
Copyright holders, like musicians, have a knack for riffing on ideas from the past.  Consider the many variations of the copyright infringement lawsuit.  Every year brings more examples of a rights-holder who hears some element of their song, no [...]

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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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Daniel Kennedy is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Intellectual Property Theory course.
Like many words, “authorship” takes on distinct meaning in the realm of copyright law.  However, it may be difficult to divorce historical values associated with the term even when it is used in the legal realm.  In his article, “Copyright and Information [...]

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