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The Transformative Nature of a Photograph: Copyright and the Korean War Veterans Memorial

The Transformative Nature of a Photograph: Copyright and the Korean War Veterans Memorial

Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has recently held that the U.S. Postal Service should compensate the sculptor of a column of marching soldiers at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington for an image on a 37-cent stamp. A photo […]

Remarks at the 11th Annual Privacy and Security Conference

Remarks at the 11th Annual Privacy and Security Conference

Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Privacy Commissioner of Canada (Jennifer Stoddart) recently delivered a speech entitled "The future of privacy regulation" at the 11th Annual Privacy and Security Conference held in Victoria, British Columbia. In her speech, she described the changes that have occurred in cyberspace over the […]

Copyright Woes of a Games Designer

Copyright Woes of a Games Designer

Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The British case Burrows v. Smith was recently noted by the 1709 copyright blog. In this case, a computer games designer (Stuart Burrows) tries to claim ownership of his own work after having already sold it to a prior employer. Burrows developed an initial […]

How to Keep those Customers Coming Back: Patents in a Consumer World

How to Keep those Customers Coming Back: Patents in a Consumer World

Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In a recent Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice article, Jeremy Phillips writes about how a 'repeat order' is one of the most sought after goals in business, which signals that the business has done something right. A 'repeat order' is defined as […]

A Taxonomy of Social Networking Data: Privacy Concerns

A Taxonomy of Social Networking Data: Privacy Concerns

Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Many thanks to Bijan Soleymani, a M. Eng Candidate at McGill University. In a recent post, the internationally renowned security technologist and author Bruce Schneier proposed a “taxonomy” of social networking data. In this taxonomy, he divides social networking data into five categories: Service […]

From 中文.cn to 中文。中国: The Introduction of Internationalized Top-Level-Domains

From 中文.cn to 中文。中国: The Introduction of Internationalized Top-Level-Domains

Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Many thanks to Bijan Soleymani, a M. Eng Candidate at McGill University. [Note: This article includes non-Latin characters (such as Chinese language characters). The ability to view such text will depend on your internet browser settings.] IDNs vs Internationalized TLDS = fully vs partly […]

Patent Auctions not the Solution for Patent Trolls

Patent Auctions not the Solution for Patent Trolls

Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On September 21, 2009, The New York Times featured an article entitled “Patent Auctions Offer Protections to Inventors”. This article is about the story of a small-inventor firm called Zoltar Satellite Alarm Systems and their battles with big corporations over its patented inventions.  In […]

No Liability for Hyperlinks, Online Free Speech Protected

No Liability for Hyperlinks, Online Free Speech Protected

Amanda Carpenter is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School Last Tuesday, the British Columbia Court of Appeal affirmed an important precedent-setting decision of the British Columbia Supreme Court regarding online defamation in Crookes v. Newton., 2009 BCCA 392. In the decision, Justice Saunders and Bauman found against the plaintiff Wayne Crookes who argued […]