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What is Mine is Not Yours and What is Yours is in Fact Mine: Copyright, Consumers and First Sale

What is Mine is Not Yours and What is Yours is in Fact Mine: Copyright, Consumers and First Sale

Pascale Chapdelaine is a member of IP Osgoode, Ph.D. (candidate) Osgoode Hall Law School and is Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. My current research work to substantiate and better define consumers’ rights to copies of copyrighted works recurrently leads towards one of the great contemporary legal challenges: the nature of […]

Canada’s “Orphan Works” Regime: Unlocatable Copyright Owners and the Copyright Board

Canada’s “Orphan Works” Regime: Unlocatable Copyright Owners and the Copyright Board

The issue of orphan works is one of increasing significance, and has received global attention. Since 1989, the Copyright Board has been empowered to issue non-exclusive licences for the use of unlocatable owners’ works and other subject matters protected by copyright. The Canadian regime, which inspired Hungary’s 2009 initiative in this area, has received little […]