There is a little-known place in the world where you can approach absolutely anyone—a Brazilian federal minister or WIPO legal officer; a policy manager at Google or the world’s leading…
Month: November 2013
UGC under Canadian Copyright Law Symposium Videos
IP Osgoode would like to thank everyone who participated in our “User Generated Content under Canadian Copyright Law Symposium” on October 10, 2013 at Osgoode Hall Law School. The symposium discussed…
A Moral Right to Graffiti?
A group of high-profile New York aerosol artists is attempting to invoke a seldom-used US statutory provision to prevent the destruction of a collection of buildings containing its works of…
CETA: A Very Reasonable Canadian-esque Compromise on Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property Law Changes
At long last, the Canadian Federal Government and the European Commission announced in October that a political agreement has been reached regarding the much anticipated Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement…
Pride and Percentages: Copyright Term Limits and Payments to Authors in the Romantic Period
In common law countries, the term of protection granted by copyright has been steadily growing ever since its advent in the eighteenth century, yet the benefits of these term extensions…