Featured here is a summary of Pascale Chapdelaine’s paper recently published in the Buffalo Intellectual Property Law Journal and now available here. Whether copyright is property continues to ignite passionate…
Category: Subsidiary Rights
Garcia v Google Inc.: Copyright Ownership, ISP Liability and the Future of Freedom of Expression
In a stunning decision recently released by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Google was ordered to remove the now-infamous film, “Innocence of Muslims”, from YouTube.…
A Packed House At The Supreme Court of Canada for Five Ground-Breaking Copyright Cases
Tali Eliav and Stephen Hutchison are 2011–2012 articling students at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP. On December 6 and 7, 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada heard five critically important…
How to Approach Non-Practicing Entities
Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Using various processes or technologies is a minefield. Patent trolls or non practicing entities (NPE) are a large part…
IP's role in the boardroom
Brian Chau is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. “Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago: they…
Ruling Is a Victory for Supporters of Free Software
A U.S. appellate court recently held in Jacobsen v. Katzer that copyright holders who dedicate their work for free public use are entitled to enforce an open-source copyright license to…