IPilogue
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
This past Monday, Osgoode’s very own Professor David Vaver delivered the 2021 Brace lecture on “User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond” as the series’ very first international speaker from outside the United States. That anyone’s use of a copyright-protected work infringes the copyright owner’s property.
The IPKat
APRIL 3, 2023
The IPKat has received and is pleased to host a guest contribution by Desmond Oriakhogba on the new Copyright Act 2022 signed into law by Nigeria's President. The reform process is now complete with the recent assent to the Bill, as the Copyright Act 2022, by the Nigerian President.
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IPilogue
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Photocopying classroom materials in a K-12 public school system may have seemed harmless and benign before the 2012 Supreme Court of Canada case, Alberta v Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright). The decision reframes traditional teaching pedagogies by considering the artist and owner rights under copyright law.
Copyright Lately
MAY 17, 2021
Parody is tricky, both as an art form and as a matter of copyright law. And putting aside its pure entertainment value, the sketch also raises some interesting questions about just how much of an original work may be taken before parodic fair use crosses the line into copyright infringement. Did SNL go too far?
Michael Geist
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
First, the 2012 reform of fair dealing largely codified existing copyright law, which included private study and research as fair dealing purposes. In fact, it fell well short of calls to adopt a “fair use” standard in Canada similar to that found in the U.S. The caselaw on Canadian copyright is unequivocal.
Velocity of Content
JUNE 8, 2022
All copyrights, except one, expire.*. Preface: I wanted to learn more about the concept (and applications) of “derivative works” and adaptations under copyright law, and I was searching for a useful example that might also be interesting for readers of Velocity of Content to read about. employer for hire.” (As
SpicyIP
JANUARY 20, 2024
Mr. Kadirgamar traces it back to 1970 when WIPO conducted two surveys: one, on the teaching of industrial property law and the second on the teaching of copyright law teaching. Then in 2004, IIT Kharagpur’s Rajiv Gandhi School of IP came into being with generous funding from US billionaire Vinod Gupta.
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