Photo Credit: Markus Winkler (Unsplash) Shawn Dhue is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On April 30, Australia’s Federal Court issued the highest damage award the country has…
Tag: fair dealing
A “Legitimate Political Purpose”: Federal Court Rules the Conservative Party Played “Fair” in the 2019 Federal Election
Photo Credit: Element5 Digital (Unsplash) Sabrina Macklai is an IPilogue Senior Editor and a 2L JD Candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. The 2019 Canadian federal election season was ripe with controversy.…
Access Copyright and the Path to Extended Collective Licensing
Before 2004, copyright laws in Canada only protected owners’ rights in their work. Enter CCH v Law Society of Upper Canada (“CCH”), where the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) introduced the…
Wiseau Studio, LLC v Harper: Good News for Canadian Filmmakers on Fair Dealing and Documentaries
Justice Paul Schabas has provided artists in Canada with the most authoritative statement yet on the bounds of fair dealing as it applies to documentary films in releasing his decision…
What Happened to Socrates
WHAT HAPPENED TO SOCRATES? The Socratic teaching method gained popularity in the early 1900s due to its pedagogical advantages of teaching students to apply their knowledge critically by thinking on…
Law School Admission Council Demands Removal of Free LSAT Online Tutoring Videos
There may only be one thing that most past and present lawyers and law students in Canada and the US have in common. We have all studied for and taken…