Royal Canadian Mint Owns the Penny

• Unravelling the Canadian Copyright Lobby

  Especially important to everyone in Canada - but important to everyone, since copyright and IP are increasingly international issues due to attempts at harmonization (WIPO, for example) - comes this expose by Michael Geist on the undue influence pro-copyright lobbyist organizations have had on Canadian policy documents.

  
  
• Business method patents rejected in Canada

  Michael Geist explains the current status of business method patents in Canada where, so far, they have been firmly rejected - unlike in the United States.

  
  
• Trademarks and the Apple App Store

  Apple's "app store" continues to generate controversy through its rejections. I must agree with the following analysis that use of icons--especially as provided through an API expressly for that purpose should not violate trademark law (or copyright for that matter).

  
  
• Applying the Fourth Amendment to data in the cloud

  In a Note called Defogging the Cloud: Applying Fourth Amendment Principles to Evolving Privacy Expectations in Cloud Computing, David A. Couillard explores the potential applicability of the Fourth Amendment to data stored in offsite servers: spreadsheets in Google Docs, accounting data hosted on FreshBooks, and pretty much everything synced through DropBox, just to name three example services.

  
  
• Don't go to grad school!

  At least, don't go to grad school in the humanities. That's the message I've been hearing from a number of sources, including a recent article from The Chronicle of Higher Education.

  
  

Post title: Royal Canadian Mint Owns the Penny

Authored by: krisnelson

Date posted: Oct 9, 2007

Categorized as: law

Tagged with: Canada • trademark

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