Update July 7, 2009: Barry Stork’s post “Liberal Party of Canada and Green Shift Inc.: Principles Take a Back Seat to the Almighty Dollar” won the Gowlings LLP Best Blog…
Category: Infringement
“Green Shift”: A source of marketplace confusion?
“Green Shift” has become a familiar term in the Canadian media over the past few months. Plugging these words into Google draws up numerous hits, with the leading ones referring…
Copyright Law in Iraq: All Bark, No Bite
On January 28th, 2008, the Iraqi Ministry of Culture and the IZDIHAR Project co-hosted Iraq’s first Iraqi Copyright Awareness Conference. While it was awarded minimal media coverage, the rare congregation…
The Commodification of Intellectual Property, and You!
I recently attended a lecture by professor Bruce Ziff, of the University of Alberta Law School, where he described what he termed as his only original academic idea. He posited…
The Battle over the Rights to “Zombies in a Mall”
When asked to think about the pop-culture zombie genre, classics such as George A. Romero’s 1979 film “Dawn of the Dead” (and its 2004 remake) and Peter Jackson’s 1992 creation…
All Mixed Up: Scrabulous and the Realpolitik of IP
In 2005, two brothers in Kolkata, India launched Scrabulous, an online implementation of the board game Scrabble. With a few thousand regular players, it wasn’t about to replace World of…