On March 20, IP Osgoode and the Hennick Center for Business and Law hosted a conference entitled, Commercialization of Innovative Research: Implementing solutions that work for Canada. The conference brought together…
Month: March 2009
Can we blame strong IP protection for climate change?
In recent years, there has been a growing concern about the increasing levels of greenhouse gas emissions and their detrimental effect on the environment. To respond to this concern, countries…
Fair Use or Fair Dealing: Which Should Give You More Comfort?
Afroditi Theodoridou is a PhD student at Osgoode Hall Law School. At the 27th Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association (VRA), the international organization of image media professionals, the…
Voluntary collective licensing, Humpty Dumpty and the house of cards
Chris Castle is Managing Partner of Christian L. Castle Attorneys, Los Angeles and San Francisco. If you believe as I do that “voluntary collective licensing” is neither voluntary, collective nor…
Motivations for Contributing to Open Source Software
Faraaz Damji is a first year law student at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Legal Values: Challenges in Intellectual Property course. In Yochai Benkler’s article, “Coase’s Penguin, or Linux and The…
Open Source Software: how free is it?
Akari Sano is a first year law student at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Legal Values: Challenges in Intellectual Property course. Open Source Software, the next vendor lock in?…