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Biobank Governance, Privacy, and Informed Consent

Biobank Governance, Privacy, and Informed Consent

Trudo Lemmens is Associate Professor at the Faculties of Law and Medicine of the University of Toronto, and a member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics and the Centre for Ethics. Medical research is increasingly relying on biobanks, large repositories of human biological material and related health information. These can be best conceived as elaborate […]

Cindy, Incidentally – The "Incidental Inclusion" Exception in Canadian Copyright Law

Cindy, Incidentally – The "Incidental Inclusion" Exception in Canadian Copyright Law

Bob Tarantino is a lawyer in the Entertainment Law Group of Heenan Blaikie LLP. He holds graduate degrees in law from Osgoode Hall Law School and the University of Oxford. A filmmaker films an individual walking down a city street, past a convenience store.  The camera captures, among others, two things: an advertisement consisting of […]