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Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2009: The Expected and Unexpected

Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2009: The Expected and Unexpected

Lorraine Fleck is a Toronto, Ontario lawyer and trade-mark agent who practices advertising and marketing, contest, copyright, packaging and labeling, privacy and trade-mark law. Interbrand has released its report of the 100 Best Global Brands 2009. The ranking is based on the following criteria: Publicly available financial data. This means that brands owned by privately […]

The Dominance of the Private Seed Sector and the Legislative Destruction of Farmers' Rights

The Dominance of the Private Seed Sector and the Legislative Destruction of Farmers' Rights

Jasdeep Bal is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and was an intern this past summer with the People’s Patent Group (PPG) in New Delhi, India. Currently, India’s domestic seed market is being overshadowed by the growing stature of Multinational corporations (MNCs), mainly due to their access to international germaplasm. Despite the dominant presence of […]

Copyright for the masses? It’s not quite as black and white

Copyright for the masses? It’s not quite as black and white

Brian Chau is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Where do we draw the line between commercial and non-commercial uses? Is this view the same across content creators and users? A quick background Creative commons licences are designed to help content creators (who own the copyright) communicate to their users which rights they […]