In Which Tom Brown Gets Googled, or why the Google Books settlement is a bridge too far

Chris Castle is Managing Partner of Christian L. Castle Attorneys, Los Angeles and San Francisco.  Google has reached a settlement of the "Google Books" case brought by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers against Google and several of Google's library business partners in the Google Books enterprise.  (The 300-page settlement agreement has […]

Canadian Originality: Remarks on a Judgment in Search of an Author

Professor Abraham Drassinower (University of Toronto) has a new paper available on SSRN, "Canadian Originality: Remarks on a Judgment in Search of an Author".  Professor Drassinower describes his paper below. The standard of originality in Canadian copyright law has recently undergone significant transformation. Traditionally a jurisdiction that, in the eyes of many, had adopted a […]

The Grey-Market: Are the Benefits Worth the Costs?

Grey market goods are legally-produced goods obtained in a foreign country which are imported into a domestic market via an unauthorized distribution channel.  These parallel-import goods are typically obtained in a country where the cost of such goods are low enough so that the importer can sell them at a price lower than the domestic […]