Pascale Chapdelaine is a PhD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and a member of IP Osgoode. Her current research seeks to define and substantiate consumersâ rights with respect to copies of copyrighted works that consumers lawfully access. In a Brief submitted to the Legislative Committee on Bill C-32, I offered some comments on the […]
Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In this digital era where authors and creators are scrambling to regain a hold on the copyright in their works, Professor Giuseppina DâAgostinoâs new book, Copyright, Contracts, Creators: New Media, New Rules, is a timely and compelling contribution to the world of copyright literature. […]
Visit the Parliament of Canada website to view a calendar of meetings of the Legislative Committee on Bill C-32 (the "Copyright Modernization Act"). Meeting recordings and minutes are available on the site. The Committee is also welcoming briefs from groups and individuals who will not have the opportunity to appear before the Committee (documents should […]
Giuseppina DâAgostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School On Dec 1, 2010, I was invited to appear as a witness to the Parliamentary Committee Hearings of Bill C-32, An Act to Amend the Copyright Act (also known as the âCopyright Modernization Actâ). I was […]
Pascale Chapdelaine is a member of IP Osgoode, Ph.D. (candidate) Osgoode Hall Law School and is Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. My current research work to substantiate and better define consumersâ rights to copies of copyrighted works recurrently leads towards one of the great contemporary legal challenges: the nature of […]
Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University In June of 2010, the UKâs Digital Economy Act came into force. The Act âincludes provisions relating to the UKâs communications infrastructure, public service broadcasting, copyright licensing and online infringement of copyright, and security and safety online and in video gamesâ. The Act was controversial from […]
David Vaver is Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, former Reuters Professor of Intellectual Property & Information Technology Law, University of Oxford and former Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre One among many contentious issues raised by the proposed copyright reforms in the Copyright Modernization Bill of 2010, Bill […]
Matt Lonsdale is a JD Candidate at Dalhousie University Our view of the world is both reflected in and informed by the creative works we produce and consume. Whether dealing with news reports or Top 40 hits, archivists have a special interest in creating durable copies of these cultural artefacts. A new study from the […]
Carys Craig is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School Michael Geistâs edited collection of essays on copyright reform is being released on October 14th, and you are welcome to attend its launch. This exciting and timely publication, entitled âFrom âRadical Extremismâ to âBalanced Copyrightâ: Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agendaâ, contains twenty chapters […]
James Gannon is a lawyer at McCarthy TĂ©trault LLP; he blogs at jamesgannon.ca One of the federal governmentâs main stated objectives in enacting Bill C-32, the Copyright Modernization Act,[1] is to implement the rights and protections for authors, performers and sound recording makers found in the WIPO Internet Treaties[2].[3] Bill C-32 would amend the Canadian […]