Preserving copyright's balance in the digital age requires more than adapting existing rules to new technologies. It requires ensuring that the practical freedoms traditionally enjoyed by users are not lost simply because knowledge is delivered through digital means.
Mekhala Chaubal is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The dust over Google’s 6-year long litigation with the Authors Guild has not even begun to settle, when already the next copyright infringement dispute between the two parties seems to be looming. For more information regarding the now-infamous Google Books Lawsuit, see the article […]
Billy Barnes is a JD candidate at the University of Toronto. In a much publicized move, Amazon remotely deleted two books from users' Kindle e-book readers. It causes one to wonder what rights we actually have in our digital possessions in this increasingly connected world. As you quickly learn when you start studying IP law, property […]