An American photographer has been making headlines after receiving a massive award for copyright infringement by a health supplement website in relation to two of his photographs. It took 5 years, but on October…
Month: December 2013
Happy Holidays from IP Osgoode!
Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, the Founder and Director of the new IP Intensive Program, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. IP…
Should Canada Adopt an “Innovation Patent System” to Promote Small to Medium Enterprises?
The “innovation patent system”, a second-tier patent system unique to Australia, was introduced in 2001 by the Australian Parliament to promote the growth of small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) by providing a…
Privacy and Proportionality: The Supreme Court finds Alberta Privacy Legislation Unconstitutional
Privacy legislation frequently pits the importance of safeguarding personal information against the constitutional protection of freedom of expression. In Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v United Food and Commercial Workers,…
in Canada, Cloud Services, Electronic Databases, European Union, Feature Post, Human Rights Issues, Identity Theft, Innovation, Internet, IP, IP Course Topic, Jurisdiction, Open-Source, Privacy, UK, US0by Editor
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An Interview with James Williams and Michael Power: Putting Privacy and Data Protection Under the Lens
The course Comparative Law: Privacy and Data Protection is offered this coming term at Osgoode Law School. IP Osgoode interviewed the course co-professors, James Williams (Osgoode site, personal site) and…
in Canada, Contracts, Copyright, Copyright Reform, Fair Dealing, Human Rights, Human Rights Issues, Identity Theft, Image, Internet, Personality Rights, Privacy, Regulatory Policy, Reputation Management, Social Justice, Social Media, Technology, UK, US0by Editor
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Dating Sites Scrape Internet for Women’s Photos, Including Those of Deceased
Dubious and likely illegal image scraping is alive and well. And outside of particularly public, harmful cases like Rehtaeh Parsons’ photo ending up on a dating site, few organizations or…