IP Osgoode 2011: A Transformative Year for Intellectual Property and Technology

Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. Mekhala Chaubal is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. 2011 will be remembered as a year of social movements and political upheavals in many parts of the world. This trend of transformation and development extended to Canadian and international intellectual property law. As a […]

Engineering The Future At York University

Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. On November 1, 2011, at an event titled, “Engineering The Future”, York University President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri announced a $25-million dollar transformative donation from Pierre Lassonde, Chair of Franco-Nevada Corporation, for an expanded School of Engineering at York’s Keele Campus.  The Faculty of Graduate Studies […]

Crookes v Newton: SCC Holds That Hyperlinking Was Not Defamatory

Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. Today, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in Crookes v Newton, which considers whether the author of a website article can be liable for defamation by hyperlinking to defamatory material on the Internet.

Professor Carys Craig On Copyright Reform

Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. In light of the introduction on September 29, 2011, of Bill C-11, the current copyright reform bill in Canada, we would like to highlight again commentary by Carys Craig, Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and Member of IP Osgoode, on issues raised by Bill […]

New Bill C-11 Reintroduces The Copyright Modernization Act

Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. The Government of Canada has reintroduced the Copyright Modernization Act, which is intended to update the Copyright Act for the information era.  Now designated as Bill C-11, it formerly existed as Bill C-32.

Rave Reviews for Professor Carys Craig

Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. Our own Carys Craig, Associate Professor and Member of IP Osgoode, has recently released a book on copyright that has already made a splash among legal circles.  It is entitled, Copyright, Communication and Culture: Towards a Relational Theory of Copyright Law (Edward Elgar, 2011).

White House Commends Agreement Reached Between ISPs And Industry

Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. Victoria Espinel, the US Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, in a post on the White House Blog, commends an agreement between Internet service providers and entertainment companies to cooperate to combat online infringement.

IPilogue Teams Up With MediaLaws With First Cross-Post On "Lysander Spooner And Constitutions 2.0"

Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode and Taylor Vanderhelm is a JD candidate at the University of Alberta. We, at IP Osgoode, are pleased to announce our new partnership with our friends at MediaLaws, www.medialaws.eu. MediaLaws is a law and policy blog based in Italy which focuses on addressing new trends in […]

A Masterful Treatise - Professor David Vaver’s Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trade-Marks, 2nd Ed.

Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. David Vaver, Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, has authored a recently released, updated and expanded edition of his textbook entitled, Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trade-Marks, 2nd ed.

"Copyright Law and the Commoditization of Sex"

Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. Professor Ann Bartow (University of South Carolina, School of Law) has recently published her research on “Copyright Law and the Commoditization of Sex”. Professor Bartow’s scholarship focuses on the intersection between intellectual property laws and public policy concerns, privacy and technology law, and feminist legal theory.  […]