When Canada’s copyright law was amended, one of the biggest changes was protect for digital locks. Since 2012 it has been illegal in Canada to circumvent technological protection measures. In this CBC television interview, on the Lang and O’Leary Exchange, I explain the adverse business impacts of locking consumers into...
Five landmark decisions released by the Supreme Court of Canada will streamline copyright licensing and help to grow the online market for digital content protected by copyright. That is my argument in this editorial published in the Financial Post. Supreme Court, by Alex Nobert, on Flickr. As well as...
The newest edition of A Property Law Reader: Cases, Questions and Commentary, 4th Edition, co-authored/edited by Bruce Ziff, Jeremy de Beer, Doug Harris, and Margaret McCullum, is Canada’s leading casebook for property law students. Starting with an exploration of the meaning(s) of property and its philosophical foundations, the book canvasses...
I was recently invited to testify about intellectual property and innovation before the Government of Canada’s Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology. Several of my recommendations were integrated into the Committee’s subsequent report to the House of Commons. My comments, which you can read or watch on Canada’s...
The Canada-EU Trade Environment Technology Exchange, a project led by Jeremy de Beer and Debra Steger Key intellectual property issues being negotiated in the Canada-EU CETA may be hard to implement, given the constitutional law governing Canada’s federal system. In “Implementing International Trade Agreements in Federal Systems” I explain...
L’accès au savoir en Afrique Ce livre, L’accès au savoir en Afrique : Le rôle du droit d’auteur, permet de mieux saisir les enjeux juridiques et pratiques que posent les droits d’auteur pour l’accès au matériel didactique en Afrique et cerne les leçons apprises, les politiques et les pratiques...