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Recent IP Publications

Winners of Canada’s IP Writing Challenge (2009)

IP Osgoode and the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada are proud to announce the winners of Canada’s IP Writing Challenge (2009):

1. Law student category – Kiernan Murphy, “Post-expiry Patent Losses: Recoverable, but Unpreventable?”

2. Graduate student category – Régine Tremblay, “La Loi sur la protection des obtentions végétales; entre compétitivité et utopie y a-t-il un avenir pour le modèle?”

3. Professional category – Anna Wilkinson, “Improper Selection: A Separate Ground of Patent Invalidity in Canada?”

Professor Rosemary Coombe

Journal Articles

2006 “Your Second Life? Goodwill and the Performativity of Intellectual Property in Online Digital Gaming” (with Andrew Herman and Lewis Kaye) 20 Cultural Studies 184-210.

Articles in Edited Anthologies

2008 “Indigenous Cultural Heritage Rights in International Human Rights Law,” (with Mohsen al atar Ahmed and Nicole Aylwin). In Catherine Bell and Robert Patterson, eds., Protection of First Nations’ Cultural Heritage: Laws, Policy and Reform (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press) 533-582.

2008 “First Nations’ Intangible Cultural Heritage Concerns: Prospects for Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions in International Law.” In Catherine Bell & Robert Patterson, eds., Protection of First Nations’ Cultural Heritage: Laws, Policy and Reform (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press) 313-362.

2008 “Digital Media and the Informational Politics of Appropriation,” (with David Meurer). In Atopia Projects, eds., Lifting: “Theft” in Art. (Aberdeen, UK: Peacock Visual Arts) (forthcoming). 15 page ms accepted.

Columns and Comments

2007 “The Work of Rights in the Space of Neoliberal Governmentality’s Limits.” A commentary on Tania Li’s “Governmentality.” Anthropologica 49 (2): 284-289.

2006 “Cultural Pluralism Protects Traditional Knowledge.” Media Development 1 (January): 47-52 (with Nicole Aylwin). Reprinted as “Taking Inventory (Re)constructing Cultural Diversity and the Possibilities of Intellectual Property” in Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge (Bangalore: Icfia University Press, 2008) 101-111.

Professor Carys Craig

Books

[Work in Progress] “Copyright, Communication and Culture: Re-Imagining the Copyright Model” (Book manuscript, Doctoral Dissertation, 338 pages)

Journal Articles

[Work in Progress] “What and Where is the Canadian Public Domain?”, in Coombe & Wershler-Henry (eds.), Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online (forthcoming, 2009).

“Resisting Sweat and Refusing Feist: Rethinking Originality After CCH” (2007) 40(1) University of British Columbia Law Review 69-120.

“Reconstructing the Author-Self: Some Feminist Lessons for Copyright Law” (2007) 15(2) American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy, and the Law 207-268.

“Putting the Community in Communication: Dissolving the Conflict Between Freedom of Expression and Copyright Law” (2006) 56 University of Toronto Law Journal 75-114.

“Copyright, Authorship, and Conceptions of the Self: A Feminist Inquiry into the Processes of Creativity” Meredith Lecture Series, McGill, 2006, 35 pages.

Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino

Books

Copyright, Contracts, Creators: The Digital Dilemma (forthcoming, Edward Elgar 2009).

Intellectual Property Law in Canada (forthcoming, Irwin Law Toronto 2009) (with D Vaver, C Ng and T Piper).

The Common Law of Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of David Vaver (forthcoming, Hart Publishing 2009)(edited with L Bently and C Ng)

Journal Articles

“Net Rights” in eds Ryan Goodman et al. Understanding Social Action, Promoting Human Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009) (forthcoming, with B Wellman).

“Healing Fair Dealing? A Comparative Copyright Analysis of Canada’s Fair Dealing to UK Fair Dealing and UK Fair Use” (2008) 53 McGill L.J. 1 (forthcoming) (older version of this article is available at CLPE Research Paper No 28, 2007 at SSRN http://ssrn.com/abstract=1014404)

“Copyright in Sound bites: Bidding for or against the Public Interest? (forthcoming, Supreme Court Law Review, vol 43, Dec 2008).

“On the Importance of Intellectual Property Rights for eScience and the Electronic Health Record” (2008) 14:2 Informatics Health Journal 95-111 (with C Hinds, M Jirotka, C Meyer, T Piper, M Raham, D Vaver).

“Not all sides represented in debate on copyright bill” Toronto Star, June 19, 2008, AA8 (available at http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/445688).

“Copyright Fight Far From Over” Masthead Jan/Feb 2007.

“Canada’s Robertson Ruling: Any Practical Significance for the Copyright Treatment of Freelance Authors?” [2007] 2 European Intellectual Property Rights Journal 66 (available at CLPE Research Paper No. 5/2007 at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=967501)

“Do Private Interests Override Public Interests? comment on Robertson in Canada” (forthcoming in EIPR January 2007)

« En attendant Robertson : Définir la possession du droit d’auteur sur les œuvres des pigistes dans les nouveaux médias » (18)(1) Cahiers de Propriété Intellectuelle 2006 tr “Anticipating Robertson: Defining Copyright Ownership of Freelance works in New Media” 163.

“Copyright Treatment of Freelance Authors in the Digital Era: Advancing Judicial Tools in Common Law and Civilian Jurisprudence” in S. Kiekergaard Legal, Privacy, and Security Issues in Information Technology Vol 1 (ed) (Institutt for rettsinformatikk Oslo 2006) 177

with C Hinds, M Jirotka, C Meyer, T Piper, M Rahman and D Vaver, “IP Rights in Medical Data in a Grid Environment (IMaGE): Challenges to Copyright Law” in S. Kiekergaard (ed) Legal, Privacy, and Security Issues in Information Technology Vol 1 (ed) (Institutt for rettsinformatikk Oslo 2006) 185.

Professor Ikechi Mgbeoji

Book Chapters

“Intangible Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property: Communities, Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development”, edited by Toshi Kono (United Nations University Press, Forthcoming)

“TRIPS and TRIPS Plus Impacts in Africa” in Daniel Gervais, ed., Strategies to Optimize Economic Development in a TRIPS Plus Era (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

“The Origin and Development of the Patent System” in Akira Iriye & Pierre-Yves Saunier, eds., The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History (London: Palgrave Macmillan Limited, forthcoming)

“Lost in Translation? The Rhetoric of Protecting Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge in International Law and the Omnipresent Reality of Biopiracy” in P. Phillips & Chika Onwuekwe, eds., Accessing and Sharing the Benefits of the Genomics Revolution (Dordrecht: Kluwer/Springer Publishers, forthcoming)

“The Civilized and the Barbaric Other: Imperial Delusions of Order and the Challenges of Human Security” in R. Falk, B. Rajagopal & J. Stevens, eds, International Law and the Third World (Routledge-Cavendish, London/New York, 2008) 151-166.

“The Colonial Origins of Intellectual Property Regimes in African States”, in David Armstrong, ed, Handbook of International Law, (Routledge Publishers, London, 2008) 316-330

“Patent First, Litigate Later! The Scramble for Speculative and Overly Broad Genetic Patents: Implications for Access to Health Care and Biomedical Research” in Veena, (ed.,) Biotech Patent Law (The ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad, India, 2007)

“An Overview of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Patent Regime” in Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Sustainable Development: Relevance For Africa’ (edited by Emmanuel Boon and Luc Hens) Kre Publishers, Delhi, India (2007)

“Environmental Law in Post-Colonial Societies: Aspirations, Achievements and Limitations” (with B. Richardson & F. Botchway) in B. Richardson & S. Wood, eds., Environmental Law for Sustainability (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2006).

Journal Articles

“Adventitious Presence of Patented GMO’s on Private Premises: Is Intent Necessary for Actions in Infringement Against the Property Owner?” (2007) 4 Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society 1-8.

“Is the Devil in the Details? The Convention on Biological Diversity and the Antinomy Between Global Governance and State Sovereignty Over Plant Resources” (2006) Vol. 13 South African Journal of Law and Policy (forthcoming).

“The Civilised Self and the Barbaric Other: Imperial Delusions of Order and the Challenges of Human Security” (2006) 27 [5] Third World Quarterly 869-883.

“Beyond Patents: The Cultural of Native Healing and the Limitations of the Patent System as a Protective Mechanism for Indigenous on the Medicinal Uses of Plants” (2006) 5 [1] Canadian Journal of Law and Technology 1-12.