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From Music Tracks To Google Maps: Who Owns Computer-Generated Works?, Mark Perry, Thomas Margoni
From Music Tracks To Google Maps: Who Owns Computer-Generated Works?, Mark Perry, Thomas Margoni
Law Publications
Increasingly the digital content used in everyday life has little or no human intervention in its creation. Typically, when such content is delivered to consumers it comes with attached claims of copyright. However, depending on the jurisdiction, approaches to ownership of computer-generated works vary from legislated to uncertain. In this paper we look at the various approaches taken by the common law, such as in Canada, and the legislative approach taken in the United Kingdom. The options for how computer-generated works may be treated and suggestions for their best placement in copyright are discussed.
Another Look At Bill C-32 And The Access Copyright Tariff: Still Double Trouble For Higher Education, Samuel E. Trosow
Another Look At Bill C-32 And The Access Copyright Tariff: Still Double Trouble For Higher Education, Samuel E. Trosow
FIMS Presentations
Earlier this year, the government tabled Bill C-32, proposed amendments to the Copyright Act. Following a consultation process, the Bill is widely recognized as more reasonable than its predecessor, Bill C-61. On the positive side, the bill would expand fair dealing to explicitly include "education". On the other hand, the digital locks provisions of the Bill are fundamentally flawed and override many existing and proposed users rights. Also this year, Access Copyright filed a proposed tariff for the post-secondary education sector with the Copyright Board. The proposal, which includes a drastic increase in costs as well as numerous new reporting …
What Bill C-32 Misses: Copyright In Academic Life..., Margaret Ann Wilkinson
What Bill C-32 Misses: Copyright In Academic Life..., Margaret Ann Wilkinson
Law Presentations
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The Creation Of University Intellectual Property: Confidential Information, Data Protection, And Research Ethics, Margaret Ann Wilkinson
The Creation Of University Intellectual Property: Confidential Information, Data Protection, And Research Ethics, Margaret Ann Wilkinson
Law Publications
Protection of commercial confidences is both required as part of the intellectual property provisions of current trade agreements and routinely prerequisite for achieving patent protection. This paper discusses the protection of such commercial confidences and the relationship of this protection with the statutory regime in Canada of personal data protection, but does so within the specific context of an examination of these matters in light of the governance of the processes of research conducted in universities. The nexus of university research and commercial research occurs frequently—for example, in the area of the development and testing of drugs in Canada. The …
Confidential Information And Privacy-Related Law In Canada And In International Instruments, Margaret Ann Wilkinson
Confidential Information And Privacy-Related Law In Canada And In International Instruments, Margaret Ann Wilkinson
Law Publications
Canadians like to think their country is law-abiding and honours its international commitments. Is Our House in Order? explores this public perception while considering whether or not it is correct in terms of domestic law.
Examining a range of topics such as treaty implementation, federal-provincial relations, the environment, international humanitarian law, and the protection of confidential information, contributors disentangle the complex processes involved in implementing international law in Canadian law. They highlight how the federal negotiation and ratification process has been opened up to the public, what is being done to give effect to custom in domestic law, and offer …
Intellectual Property And The Safeguarding Of Traditional Cultures, Molly Torsen, Jane Anderson
Intellectual Property And The Safeguarding Of Traditional Cultures, Molly Torsen, Jane Anderson
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
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