Interbrand released its 2010 Report on Best Canadian Brands

Ashlee Froese is an Osgoode Hall alumnus and currently practices intellectual property at the law firm of Keyser Mason Ball LLP. Introduction Interbrand, a well reputed international company whose modus operandi is to analyze global brands, has recently released its bi-annual report on "Best Canadian Brands 2010".  Interestingly, despite the volatile and contentious economic climate […]

Gene Patents and Collaborative Licensing Models

Professor Geertrui Van Overwalle (University of Leuven, Belgium) has edited a new book entitled "Gene Patents and Collaborative Licensing Models -- Patent Pools, Clearinghouses, Open Source Models and Liability Regimes".  The book is briefly described below. Concerns have been expressed that gene patents might result in restricted access to research and health care. The exponential […]

Bill C-32: Improving Global Access to Copyrighted Material for the Print Disabled

Vincent Doré is a JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and Schulich School of Business. Bill C-32, Canada’s attempt at updating the Copyright Act, has received much attention in the digital space. The blogosphere is filled with commentary on all things copyright, and filtering out the noise is a challenge in itself. Predictably, much […]

Bill C-32: Digital Locks - Acting as the Fulcrum between Owners' and Users' Rights

Steven Zuccarelli is a 2012 JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. [Update: June 11, 2010, 8:41 am - the text below is an updated version of this blog post. Inadvertently an early draft was posted and we have replaced it with a corrected version.] The recently introduced Copyright Modernization Act (Bill C-32) has been […]

Bill C-32: Cracking Down on Bit Torrent Trackers

Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. While most of the media coverage of Bill C-32 (aka the “Copyright Modernization Act”) has focused on either the increased protection for digital locks or the new categories of user rights, the bill also includes some tough new laws aimed at stamping out illegitimate […]

Bill C-32: Copyright and Education in the Digital Age

Robert Dewald is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School Technology plays an important role in today’s educational institutions by providing easy access to and distribution of music, art, literature and other information that forms the foundation of a person’s education.   Yet the innovation and technological advances that have created powerful teaching tools, such […]

Dr. Corbin awarded 2010 Murray Philp Prize

Dr. Ruth Corbin, Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall, and Managing Partner of CorbinPartners Inc., along with the Conference Board of Canada, have won the prestigious 2010 Murray Philp Prize for the project "Intellectual Property in the 21st Century."  The release of the report was previously announced on the IP Osgoode site in mid-February.   The award was […]

Canadian lawyers launch class action lawsuit against Thomson Reuters for copyright infringement

Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. It has been just over six years since the Supreme Court of Canada handed down its decision in CCH Canadian v. LSUC, the seminal fair dealing decision that saved LSUC lawyers from the copyright infringement claims of plaintiffs like The Thomson Corporation (pre-Reuters merger). […]

Google Books and Privacy

Michael Perry is a graduate from the School of Information at University of Michigan specializing in the field of Information Policy. Google Books was first introduced in late 2003.  The project’s goal was to scan books and make them available to online searches.  Users would be able to search for specific terms in the books.  Google […]

Copyright Modernization Week(s!)

Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode. Over the next couple of weeks, our IPilogue editors will be posting blogs covering various aspects of the Copyright Modernization Act (Bill C-32) and we hope that you will join in the discussion. There is a lot to consider in the text of Bill […]