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...
My work on private copying levies was presented in Banff, Canada at a conference called, “Ethics, Creativity and Copyright” in August 2006. You can read my publications related to this topic...
The relationship between private copying levies and digital rights management tools is a major challenge in copyright law. Different types of copyright-holders generally prefer different approaches. Individual authors and performers and their representative societies have favourable attitudes towards levies, while major producers and distributors tend to prefer the control...
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 Access to Knowledge Conference that took place in March 2006 at Yale University in New Haven, USA, I spoke about my research on Canadian ag-biotech patent law, covering parts of my research published in various articles I’ve written about this...
In January 2006 I delivered an invited lecture called, “Sucking and Blowing in the Wind,” which highlighted contradictions in the way that Canadian law deals with the patent rights and tort liabilities of owners of genetically modified organisms. This lecture discusses an issue I have spoken and written about...