In Canada, imbalances between the rights and responsibilities of GMO patent owners has global implications. As GMOs have become more prevalent, property law, specifically intellectual property law, has had to face questions such as: what rights does a patentee have concerning the second, third and subsequent generations of progeny of transgenic...
When Sony BMG snuck restrictive contractual terms and digital rights management technologies onto tens of millions of CDs in 2006, the strategy backfired by alienating consumers as well as artists and leading to class action litigation against the company. My article explains, “How Restrictive Terms and Technologies Backfired on...
At the IT.CAN Annual Conference in Montreal in October 2005 I presented my research drawing parallels between digital rights management technologies used in the context of information communications technologies, and genetic use restriction technologies used to control...