Gospel, Gold Diggers, and Gum Trees: How Sampling Litigation Changes the Tune

Ren Bucholz is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Intellectual Property Theory course. Copyright holders, like musicians, have a knack for riffing on ideas from the past.  Consider the many variations of the copyright infringement lawsuit.  Every year brings more examples of a rights-holder who hears some element of their song, […]

Bill C-61 and DRM: How the Canadian Constitution ensures a balance of copyrights

Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Professor Emir Aly Crowne-Mohammed and Yonatan Rozenszajn argue in their article, DRM Roll Please: Is Digital Rights Management Legislation Unconstitutional in Canada? that the Digital Rights Management (DRM) Provisions in Bill C-61 are ultra vires (Latin for "beyond the powers") of Parliament’s power under […]