Found an amazing resource for cases on “fair use” in the USA!

Hey everyone! I found an amazing resource for finding “fair use” cases in the USA. It’s called the US Copyright Office Fair Use Index: https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/fair-index.html You can search by jurisdiction or category of the issue (like parody, internet, film, etc) and they are all in condensed down case briefs. Maybe you know about this resource […]

Careers in IP Law Event – Please join if you can!

Hopefully some shameless event promotion on here is not an issue… the topic certainly relates to our course! I am going to be co-moderating this panel titled “Lights, Camera, Law! Careers in Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law” on Thursday March 14 at 12:30pm in Room 104. We have a fabulous panel of various IP and […]

Interesting dissertation of traditional Indigenous knowledge and its intersections with IP law

Hello fellow classmates! The author of this dissertation, Greg Young-ing, was a professor of mine during my early undergrad years at UBCO (admittedly those were quite a few years ago now..). As a non-Indigenous person who was taught from a highly euro-centric perspective for much of my educational life, Greg’s Indigenous Studies class had a […]