Policy
Registration is Now Open for "Bracing for Impact: The #ArtificialIntelligence Challenge"!
On February 2, 2018, IP Osgoode along with its partners, the 91亚色 Centre for Public Policy & Law and the Zvi Meitar Institute for Legal Implications of Emerging Technologies, will host a full day conference entitled "Bracing for Impact - The Artificial Intelligence Challenge (A Road Map for AI Governance in Canada)".聽 聽The conference will […]
A New Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility within the IGF
The re-posting of this analysis is part of a cross-posting collaboration with MediaLaws: Law and Policy of the Media in聽a Comparative Perspective. Two weeks ago, the Secretariat of the United Nations鈥 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) approved the creation of the Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility (DC PR). This new component of the IGF […]
IP Intensive Program: 鈥淚ntellectual Property Policy is All IC鈥 Reflecting on a Semester at Industry Canada
My time at Industry Canada聽as an IP Intensive student intern last fall聽was spent working within the Strategic Policy Sector (SPS), and more specifically a sub-group within the SPS called the Copyright and Trade-mark Policy Directorate (CTPD). The CTPD, along with the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), is responsible for […]
Targeted Advertising Puts Bell in Sights of the Privacy Commissioner
Motivated to compete with Facebook and Google, Bell recently announced that starting November 16 it will be collecting massive amounts of customer data to deliver targeted advertising. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) stated that it will be investigating the matter. Canada鈥檚 telecom giant is adamant that it will comply with the […]
A New Arrival in the IGF Family: the Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality
The re-posting of this analysis is part of a cross-posting collaboration with MediaLaws: Law and Policy of the Media in a Comparative Perspective.
The Future is Unfriendly for Mobilicity Acquisition by Telus
The Federal Government recently聽announced聽it would not allow Mobilicity to transfer the wireless spectrum it owns to Telus, effectively blocking a聽deal聽for the incumbent to acquire the smaller new entrant. Many see this as a聽victory聽for consumers and a bolstering of the Government's initiative to spur competition in the wireless market, while others are聽concerned聽about the immediate future of […]
Copyright Policy at Industry Canada: More Than a Dilbert Strip
This past fall, I was lucky to have the opportunity to intern at Industry Canada in Ottawa as part of the Osgoode IP Law and Technology Intensive Program. Industry Canada is a federal department that works to make Canada鈥檚 industrial sectors more competitive in the world market by attracting investors and traders.聽 The Department鈥檚 focus […]
Book Review 鈥 颅Global Copyright: Three Hundred Years Since The Statute Of Anne, From 1709 To Cyberspace
Rex Shoyama is a Legal Product Developer at Thomson Reuters and an MI candidate in the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. He was IP Osgoode鈥檚 Assistant Director from 2008 to 2010. The following is an excerpt from a forthcoming book review in the Intellectual Property Journal. The Statute of Anne is often referred to […]