How are copyright royalties established in Canada? What is the tariff-setting process? How long does it take? What has been written about it? These are just some of the questions answered in my empirical review of copyright tariff setting. My research was initially conducted on behalf of the Government of Canada (the Department...
Intellectual property provisions in international agreements should not be negotiated secretly, but transparently. They should not serve special interests, but the public interest. And they should not be one-sided, but fair and balanced. This can be done by adhering to the Max Planck Principles for Intellectual Property Provisions in Bilateral...
Is there a role for intellectual property rights to play in the informal economy? What formal and informal strategies do informal sector actors use to appropriate benefits from their innovation? I’ve been exploring these questions through my co-leadership of the Open AIR project, and as an expert consultant on...
This article presents the results of a systematic review and analysis of the way that “the future” is addressed in intellectual property literature. Co-authored with two of my brightest students, it is available as an open access download in HTML or PDF format through its publisher, SCRIPTed, a high-quality, online,...
This peer-reviewed article in the European Intellectual Property Review provides a timely comparative analysis of recent Canadian and European Union (EU) copyright cases regarding the nature and scope of communication rights, as applied to the issue of copyright infringement liability for hyperlinking. Mira Burri and I link possible copyright...
Knowledge and Innovation in Africa: Scenarios for the Future grapples with the complex and dynamic forces that will shape innovation systems over the next two decades. The report distills three different but equally plausible future scenarios: one a world of “wireless engagement,” another where “informal is the new normal,”...