Introduction In December 2006, Time magazine celebrated “You” as the person of the year.[1] In the article, Lev Grossman stated that our history is no longer shaped by a few…
Tag: UGC
UGC Exception: For the Love of Amateur and the Profit of Everyone Else
Creating YouTube videos incorporating copyright protected works is a commonplace, often amateur pursuit of today’s tech-savvy cultural ‘consumers’ and no one is making money off of it, right?… Wrong! (more…)
Transplanting the Canadian UGC Exception to Hong Kong: Part 2
In Part I of this series of blog posts, I discussed a position paper I submitted to the Hong Kong government as part of its public consultation on the treatment of parody under the copyright regime.…
UGC under Canadian Copyright Law Symposium Videos
IP Osgoode would like to thank everyone who participated in our “User Generated Content under Canadian Copyright Law Symposium” on October 10, 2013 at Osgoode Hall Law School. The symposium discussed…
User Generated Content: Generating More Questions than Answers
IP Osgoode and the Genest Memorial Fund hosted an electric and vibrant panel on Thursday, October 10 to discuss the newly enacted User-Generated Content (UGC) provision in the Copyright Act. While there were many disagreements…
Examining User Generated Content from an Industry Perspective
On October 10, 2013, IP Osgoode hosted a full-day symposium on “User Generated Content Under Canadian Copyright Law” discussing the new UGC copyright exception with guest speakers from government, industry,…