What Happened After the 2012 Shift in Canadian Copyright Law? An Updated Survey on How Copyright is Managed across Canadian Universities

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ion and Refinement This chapter focuses on relationships between models known as abstraction and refinement. These terms are symmetric in that the statement “model A is an abstraction of model B” means the same thing as “model B is a refinement of model A.” As a general rule, the refinement model B has more detail than the abstraction A, and the abstraction is simpler, smaller, or easier to und...

Revision of the Copyright Law

something they would otherwise be free to do, the right to prohibit thenm from copying and distributing material which has been published. A patent constitutes a truer analogy. In common law, if an invention can be used and still kept secret by the Those who introduced the medical research bill had to make a hard decision not to accept a compromiiise ot the original specifications, including an...

A Question in the Law of Copyright

In Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony, in U. S, 53 (1884), the question was presented, to what extent Congress was within its constitutional powers in attempting to grant exclusive rights to the "author, inventor, designer or proprietor of any . , photograph." Rev. St. § 4952. The subject-matter of the case was a photograph of Oscar Wilde, who was specially posed for the occasion. The argu...

Evaluating an Online Module on Copyright Law and Intellectual Property

Various forms of knowledge can be distinguished. Low-level learning focuses on recognition and remembering facts. Higher level learning of conceptual knowledge requires the development of some form of mental structural map. Further, application of knowledge requires learners to put theories and concepts into use in authentic and novel situations. This study concerns learning at a number of leve...

Copyright Law and Organizing the Internet