IP Osgoode is an independent voice that explores legal governance issues at the intersection of intellectual property (IP) and technology. The program’s researchers, collaborators, and students actively engage in some of the most important and cutting-edge IP law and technology related research and policy discussions of today.
Commentary and analysis on the latest developments in intellectual property, technology and privacy, featuring curated contributions from students, scholars, and experts within the Osgoode community.
Chris Castle is Managing Partner of Christian L. Castle Attorneys, a law firm specializing in music industry issues, content based technologies and public policy. Ever encounter people who think that illegal downloading can be solved by "turning off" the Internet? That makes about as much sense as "voluntary collective licensing" or "ISP licensing" (used interchangeably). […]
Simon Fodden (Professor Emeritus, Osgoode Hall Law School) is founder of the Canadian cooperative law blog Slaw (http://www.slaw.ca). Five years ago, Joel Tenenbaum, now a 24-year-old graduate student at BU, may have downloaded seven tunes via a P2P network. At least that's what the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) alleges -- and now it wants […]
Nada Basir is a PhD candidate at the Schulich School of Business at 91ÑÇÉ« in the area of Strategic Management and Policy. The increased use of patents has sparked a critical debate not only at the legal level, but also across the science, management and policy literature. Whereas IP studies were once for the law academics, […]
Rex Shoyama is a Visiting Professor and the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. The general presumption in the Web 2.0 world is that a greater level of sharing and interoperability is a better thing. However, the method in which this sharing is attained should not be ignored as it can have significant legal ramifications. Rushing […]
Afroditi Theodoridou is a PhD student at Osgoode Hall Law School. Now that we are heralding a New Year, the European Union is welcoming in Prague, on January 7, 2009, its European Year of Creativity and Innovation (EYCI) with the aim to promote an innovation and creativity-friendly environment. This is a meaningful continuation of the European Year of […]
Graham Dutfield is Professor of International Governance at the University of Leeds and is an IP Osgoode Research Affiliate. This is a plea for disciplinary disloyalty in intellectual property studies. I realise that sounds very bad - what's good about disloyalty? But it's not in the way I mean it. I am a geographer of […]
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