Articles
Of Clusters and Assumptions: Innovation as Part of a Full TRIPS Implementation, Fordham Law Review (2009)
Because TRIPS introduced a high(er) level of intellectual property protection in a number of developing...
The Tangled Web of UGC: Making Copyright Sense of User-Generated Content, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law (2009)
Even as a mere conceptual cloud, the term “user-generated content” is useful to discuss the...
Traditional Knowledge: Are We Closer to the Answers? The Potential Role of Geographical Indications, ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law (2009)
The debate concerning the protection of, and access to, “traditional knowledge” has been going on...
The Protection of Databases, Chicago-Kent Law Review (2007)
In Parts I and II of this Paper, the author analyzes the legal protection of...
The Purpose of Copyright Law in Canada, University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal (2006)
In three recent cases, the Supreme Court of Canada provided several pieces of the...
Traditional Knowledge & Intellectual Property: A TRIPS-Compatible Approach, Mich. St. L. R. (2005)
Should intellectual property provide a means for strengthening the range of incentives that local...
Intellectual Property, Trade & Development: The State of Play, Fordham L. R. (2005)
This Article considers, first, available economic, social, and cultural analyses of the impact of...
Towards a New Core International Copyright Norm: The Reverse Three-Step Test, Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review (2005)
This paper argues that international copyright treaties, such as the WTO TRIPS Agreement, should no...
The Price of Social Norms: Towards a Liability Regime for File-Sharing, J. of Intell. Prop. Law (2003)
he paper starts by asking whether P2P file-sharing of music can be stopped. Based on...
Spiritual but not Intellectual? The Protection of Sacred Intangible Traditional Knowledge, Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law (2003)
The use of sacred aboriginal art is nothing new. It is fairly common to...
Feist Goes Global: A Comparative Analysis Of The Notion Of Originality In Copyright Law, J. Copyright Society of the USA (2002)
he 1991 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service Company, Inc....
The Internationalization of Intellectual Property: New Challenges From the Very Old and the Very New, Fordham ntellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal (2002)
Intellectual property concepts embodied in international treaties and national laws date back to the eighteenth...
Transmissions of Music on the Internet: an Analysis of the Copyright Laws of Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, nderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (2001)
This Article examines the status of copyright laws in several countries as they pertain...
Contributions to Books
A Uniquely Canadian Institution: The Copyright Board of Canada, An Emerging Intellectual Property Paradigm (2008)
Several countries have fostered the growth of Collective Management Organizations (CMOs) through legislative initiatives in...
Intellectual Property and Human Rights: Learning to Live Together, Intellectual Property and Human Rights (2008)
Intellectual property and human rights must learn to live together. Traditionally, there have been two...
The Role of International Treaties in the Interpretation of Canadian Intellectual Property Statutes, THE GLOBALIZED RULE OF LAW: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC LAW (2006)
The relationship between domestic intellectual property statutes and international law in growing in scope and...
Use of Copyright Content on the Internet: Considerations on Excludability and Collective Licensing, IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: THE FUTURE OF CANDADIAN COPYRIGHT LAW (2005)
The Internet has been a catalyst for problems latent within the copyright system. Fundamentally, the...
Presentations
The Role of Copyright Collectives in Web 2.0 Music Markets, WIPO/Vanderbilt Law School Conference of Collective Management (2007)
The flow of P2P is not under control. The laws of physics that applied to...