Amelia Manera is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In response to the Federal Court’s decision in Amazon.com, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office has issued further guidelines to its…
Month: August 2011
London MP Seeks To Quell Rioting Through Surveillance Of BlackBerry Messages
Michael Gilburt is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. David Lammy, Member of Parliament for Tottenham, has called for the suspension and surveillance of the BlackBerry Messenger (“BBM”)…
Some Nortel Patents To Remain Canadian Via RIM Following Apple Consortium Bid Win
Jennifer O’Dell is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall and Denise Brunsdon is a social media writer and researcher. For anyone with family members at Apple, Research in Motion, Microsoft,…
Book Review — Global Copyright: Three Hundred Years Since The Statute Of Anne, From 1709 To Cyberspace
Rex Shoyama is a Legal Product Developer at Thomson Reuters and an MI candidate in the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. He was IP Osgoode’s Assistant Director from 2008…
Prof Annemarie Bridy Asks: How Human Does An Author Need To Be?
Brent Randall is a JD candidate at the University of Ottawa. The Canadian Copyright Act does not explicitly define the term “author”, but the statute does appear to assume that…
UK Government Responds To The Hargreaves Report
Nora Sleeth is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The UK Government has expressed its agreement with the findings of an independent IP law report released in May…