Happy World IP Day! Wow, how many times have you said something like that before? World Intellectual Property Day? Yes, IP has come a long way. Since 2000, member states…
Month: April 2014
The Hard Decision about Software Patents
On Monday, March 31st, the United States Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments in the case of Alice Corporation Pty Ltd v CLS Bank International. Many hope that this ruling will…
UGC Exception: For the Love of Amateur and the Profit of Everyone Else
Creating YouTube videos incorporating copyright protected works is a commonplace, often amateur pursuit of today’s tech-savvy cultural ‘consumers’ and no one is making money off of it, right?… Wrong! (more…)
The Keller/O'Bannon Lawsuit: Why Canadians Should Care
There is currently a live, ongoing legal dispute in California between former and current student athletes (SAs) and the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) which reveals that regulations defining collegiate…
Why I Was Wrong About Originality
When I first read the Supreme Court of Canada’s landmark decision in CCH Canadian Ltd v Law Society of Upper Canada concerning the concept of originality in copyright law, I…
Getting Profits From Patents: An Interview with Ed Fan and Loreto Grimaldi
The course Legal Values: Commercializing Intellectual Property is being offered for the first time at Osgoode Hall Law School this winter term. The IPilogue sat down with Adjunct Professors, Ed Fan (Torys LLP,…