Roger S. Fisher, Ph.D., J.D. teaches courses at York University on law, humanities and copyright policy. He is a member of the Bar of Ontario and is currently working on a project entitled “Antigone Rests Her Case: Law, Legal Discourses and Discourse Shifting in Sophocles’ Antigone.”�
The law has always had an uneasy relationship with copies, [...]

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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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