A recent pronouncement by Associated Press (AP) to adopt a more aggressive effort to “fend off copycat competition and “misappropriation” in the dwindling market for timely reporting,” has stirred the…
Category: Originality
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…
Canadian Originality: Remarks on a Judgment in Search of an Author
Professor Abraham Drassinower (University of Toronto) has a new paper available on SSRN, “Canadian Originality: Remarks on a Judgment in Search of an Author“. Professor Drassinower describes his paper below.…
Fair application of 'Fair Dealing': A look at uncertainties
In George Nathanael’s post titled “Protecting Graffiti Artists”, he proposed that withholding copyright protection for graffiti is the best response to the question of whether creators of graffiti should be protected…
One Size Does Not Fit All
Under Canadian patent law, the scope of patentable subject matter is still expanding. But under U.S. patent law, “anything under the sun made by man” is patentable. This has come…
What is in a Title?
The notion of originality in copyright seems to reinforce an outdated assumption of author as a singular creator. Today, there are a plethora of cases that defy this notion. Most…