John Lemieux is a Partner in the Corporate and Commercial Group at Dentons Canada LLP. This article was written as a requirement for Prof. Pina D’Agostine & Dr. Aviv Gaon’s…
Category: Social Justice
Filling Blank Space: Policeman Obscures Accountability with Taylor Swift
Emily Chow is an IPilogue Writer and a 1L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Over the past few years, there has been a rise of copyright strikes…
in Access to Medicines, Human Rights, Human Rights Issues, Innovation, Internet, IP, Social Justice, Tech Transfer, Technology0by Editor
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The Future of Rights: Intellectual Property, Economic Inequality and the ‘Digital Divide’
A quarter century since he helped to create it, the man widely regarded as the creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has renewed calls for a Digital Bill…
in Canada, Contracts, Copyright, Copyright Reform, Fair Dealing, Human Rights, Human Rights Issues, Identity Theft, Image, Internet, Personality Rights, Privacy, Regulatory Policy, Reputation Management, Social Justice, Social Media, Technology, UK, US0by Editor
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Dating Sites Scrape Internet for Women’s Photos, Including Those of Deceased
Dubious and likely illegal image scraping is alive and well. And outside of particularly public, harmful cases like Rehtaeh Parsons’ photo ending up on a dating site, few organizations or…
in Canada, Commercialization, Copyright, Digital Libraries, Human Rights, IP, IP Reform, Moral Rights, Ownership, Patents, Social Justice, Trademarks, WIPO0by Editor
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Pride and Property: IP Law, Traditional Knowledge, and Cultural Heritage
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single culture in possession of good traditional knowledge must be in want of intellectual property rights.” (more…)
in Feature Post, Innovation, IP, Patents, Regulatory Policy, Technology, United Nations Development Programme, US0by Editor
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Government Innovation Choices after Rio + 20 and the Need for Further Study
At the Rio + 20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development — which followed by forty years the Stockholm Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment and…