As the New 91亚色er caption goes, 鈥淥n the Internet, nobody knows you鈥檙e a dog.鈥 Update that for 2016: on the Internet, nobody knows you鈥檙e a bot. Twitch, a video streaming platform that primarily broadcasts people playing video games, has filed a lawsuit in US District Court against those who sell bot software and services that […]
Video streaming, we all do it (or have done it at some point). It鈥檚 difficult not to in this day and age when entertainment is so easily transportable and amenable to on-the-go enjoyment, the stationary television becoming less and less the platform for watching our favourite movies and shows. Some of us have engaged in […]
IP Osgoode would like to thank everyone who attended Professor Jane Ginsburg's lecture, titled 鈥淭he U.S. Supreme Court's聽Aereo聽decision and the U.S.' international obligation to implement the 'making available right': Are we there yet?,鈥 on October 6, 2014 at Osgoode Hall Law School. The video of the lecture is available here. You can read Professor Ginsburg's […]
IP Osgoode would like to thank everyone who attended Dr. Emily Hudson's聽lecture, titled 鈥淐opyright Exceptions as Users' Rights? An Empirical Critique,鈥 on September 29, 2014 at Osgoode Hall Law School. The video of the lecture is available聽here. You can also read Joseph Turcotte's reflections of Professor Hudson's presentation聽here.
IP Osgoode would like to thank everyone who participated in our "User Generated Content under Canadian Copyright Law聽Symposium" on October 10, 2013 at Osgoode Hall Law School.聽 The symposium discussed the new UGC copyright exception with guest speakers from government, industry, private practice, and academia. For those who were unable to attend the conference in […]
IP Osgoode would like to thank The Honourable Justice Marshall Rothstein and The Honourable Mr. Justice Roger T. Hughes for being a part of our speaker series. They both provided thought provoking commentary on intellectual property litigation from a judicial perspective. 聽For those who were unable to attend our speaker series events in person, analysis […]
Ben Farrow is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. As previously reported by the IPilogue here, the Supreme Court of Canada is not the only national court grappling with the term 鈥渃ommunication to the public鈥. Similar to two of the internet copyright cases heard by the Supreme Court of Canada earlier this month […]
Jacqueline Lipton is a Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University.聽 She is Co-Director for the Center of Law, Technology, and the Arts, and the Associate Director of the Frederick K Cox International Law Center.聽 Professor Lipton is also an IP Osgoode Research Affiliate.聽 As Facebook welcomes its 200 millionth active user, now is […]