Legal Research

Gives journalists a primer on criminal and civil law, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, public law, legal research tools, and basic procedure. This book also examines the newest media source protection laws, defamation defences, and the laws against strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs).

In the summer of 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada issued rulings on five copyright cases in a single day. The cases represent a seismic shift in Canadian copyright law, with the Court providing an unequivocal affirmation that copyright exceptions such as fair dealing should be treated as users’ rights, while emphasizing the need for a technology neutral approach to copyright law.

This book addresses the contested history of copyright law in Canada, where the economic and reputational interests of authors and the commercial interests of publishers often conflict with the public interest in access to knowledge.

This OER title focuses on the core areas of IP law in Canada, namely copyright, patent and trademark.

This title discusses important changes to the pre-existing legislative framework and, consequently, modified the basic principles of trademark law.

This text provides an accessible approach to understanding and researching intellectual property issues in copyright, trademark, patent, industrial design, and the law of confidentiality as well as more specialized fields.

This title provides practitioners with a competitive advantage in creating copyrights, maximizing their protection and taking timely and effective action against their infringement.

This book identifies Indigenous intellectual property concerns as an Indigenous legal issue to be taken seriously within specific Indigenous legal orders.

Using vivid examples, the authour illustrates the powers and limits of intellectual property.

This title offers a comprehensive description of the international norms and bodies dealing with the enforcement of intellectual property rights.

This book analyses the object and purpose of international intellectual property law, examining how international agreements have been interpreted in different jurisdictions and how this has led to diversity in IP regimes at a national level.

A broad introduction to the changing roles of intellectual property within society.

This book examines intellectual property (IP) as an important value driver for start-ups.

This book tells a history of IP in 50 objects. These objects not only demonstrate the significance of the IP system, but also show how IP has developed and how it has influenced history.

This book contends that the concept of fairness should be embraced and developed as a middle ground between strictly utilitarian and fundamental rights-based approaches to intellectual property (IP) law.