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Did Copyright Concerns Motivate The White House’s Bin Laden Photo Decision?

Did Copyright Concerns Motivate The White House’s Bin Laden Photo Decision?

Dan Whalen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Despite public calls driven by morbid curiosity and a yen for closure, the White House has decided not to release the post-mortem photos of Osama bin Laden. According to US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates, the decision was motivated in part by concern that […]

Protecting the Public Domain: WIPO Releases Study on Copyright and the Public Domain

Protecting the Public Domain: WIPO Releases Study on Copyright and the Public Domain

Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. The WIPO Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) has released a “Scoping Study on Copyright and Related Rights and the Public Domain”, prepared by Professor Séverine Dusollier of the University of Namur, Belgium.  The Study recognizes that many business models now thrive on the public domain, […]

The Pruning Of Moral Rights in America: Does the Right Subsist in a Garden?

The Pruning Of Moral Rights in America: Does the Right Subsist in a Garden?

Leslie Chong is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Chapman Kelley v. Chicago Park District is a recent decision rendered in the United States Court of Appeals (Seventh Circuit) that questioned the extent an author's moral rights may be protected in the United States. While the courts eventually held that no moral rights […]