Afroditi Theodoridou is a PhD student at Osgoode Hall Law School. On April 16, 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision…
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Locating the Public Domain
Sheldon Inkol is a first year law student at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Legal Values: Challenges in Intellectual Property course. According to Julie E. Cohen, the public domain…
Fair Use or Fair Dealing: Which Should Give You More Comfort?
Afroditi Theodoridou is a PhD student at Osgoode Hall Law School. At the 27th Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association (VRA), the international organization of image media professionals, the…
IP Osgoode Panel: Copyright in the Remix Era Part 1 – A History Lesson
Last Friday, IP Osgoode hosted a panel of copyright thinkers at Osgoode Entertainment and Sports Law Association’s 11th Annual Entertainment and Sports Law Conference. The panel was entitled “Copyright in…
Fair Dealing - Remembering the rights holder
As discussed by Anna in her post yesterday, fair dealing under Canadian law works as follows: a user is allowed a limited use of a copyrighted material without needing to get…
News aggregation websites: Fair dealing v. Free riding
There is a growing concern among media companies that news aggregation websites (NAWs) are taking large portions of original content, ‘shaving away potential readers and profiting from the content’ without…