AP’s heated campaign over ‘Hot News’
A recent pronouncement by Associated Press (AP) to adopt a more aggressive effort to “fend off copycat competition and “misappropriation” in the dwindling market for
April 24, 2009
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Category: Originality
Locating the Public Domain
Sheldon Inkol is a first year law student at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Legal Values: Challenges in Intellectual Property course. According to Julie
March 28, 2009
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Canadian Originality: Remarks on a Judgment in Search of an Author
Professor Abraham Drassinower (University of Toronto) has a new paper available on SSRN, “Canadian Originality: Remarks on a Judgment in Search of an Author“. Professor
February 2, 2009
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Fair application of ‘Fair Dealing’: A look at uncertainties
In George Nathanael’s post titled “Protecting Graffiti Artists”, he proposed that withholding copyright protection for graffiti is the best response to the question of whether creators
November 28, 2008
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One Size Does Not Fit All
Under Canadian patent law, the scope of patentable subject matter is still expanding. But under U.S. patent law, “anything under the sun made by man”
March 28, 2008
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What is in a Title?
The notion of originality in copyright seems to reinforce an outdated assumption of author as a singular creator. Today, there are a plethora of cases
March 26, 2008
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