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Social networks want to hang out with each other, but on their own terms

Social networks want to hang out with each other, but on their own terms

Rex Shoyama is a Visiting Professor and the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. The general presumption in the Web 2.0 world is that a greater level of sharing and interoperability is a better thing.  However, the method in which this sharing is attained should not be ignored as it can have significant legal ramifications.  Rushing […]

European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009

European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009

Afroditi Theodoridou is a PhD student at Osgoode Hall Law School. Now that we are heralding a New Year, the European Union is welcoming in Prague, on January 7, 2009, its European Year of Creativity and Innovation (EYCI) with the aim to promote an innovation and creativity-friendly environment. This is a meaningful continuation of the European Year of […]

A plea for disciplinary disloyalty in intellectual property studies

A plea for disciplinary disloyalty in intellectual property studies

Graham Dutfield is Professor of International Governance at the University of Leeds and is an IP Osgoode Research Affiliate. This is a plea for disciplinary disloyalty in intellectual property studies. I realise that sounds very bad - what's good about disloyalty? But it's not in the way I mean it. I am a geographer of […]