Who Are We?

The CIPP’s mission is to advance research and policy formation of intellectual property and innovation systems.

To achieve this mission the CIPP focuses on three interconnected priority areas:

• The CIPP carries out interdisciplinary research to understand the role of intellectual property policies and rules in contributing to creativity and innovation. In particular, the Centre examines if and how intellectual property contributes to broad social goals such as increased health, cultural development, access to information and economic growth.
• The CIPP enhances understanding of intellectual property and innovation systems among students at McGill University at the undergraduate, graduate and executive level, as well as within the community.
• The CIPP disseminates its research through workshops and conferences.

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News

— CIPP Seminars 2011-2012 - Professor Jason Mazzone - Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property Law
Quebec Bar - Accreditation of this activity is pending.
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— CIPP Seminar 2011-2012: Professor Pierre Larouche - "Apple, Google, Intel: high-tech giants in the line of fire of competition authorities"
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— CIPP Seminars Series 2011-2012 - Professor David Vaver from Osgoode Hall Law School - Faculty of Law, McGill University, 3644 Peel Street, Room 16
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— How Virtue Ethics Might Help Erase C-32’s Conceptual Incoherence
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— An “Independent” View of Bill C-32’s Copyright Reform
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IP News This Month

— The dramatic failure of the SOPA anti-piracy legislation shows how power in Washington is shifting from Hollywood copyright owners to Silicon Valley tech companies. In the meantime, the international arrests related to the dramatic seizure of file-sharing site Megaupload has raised question of whether new piracy and copyright laws are even necessary.

— The book publishing world is in turmoil as Apple plans to create textbooks and libraries struggle with how copyright laws should apply to e-books. At the same time, authors and publishers are in court over who has the digital rights to old books.

— “An uncommonly well shod” audience attended a New York appeal in which Louboutin asked to overturn a lower court ruling that found red heels can’t be trademarked. The Louis Vuitton case is being followed by IP lawyers and fashionistas alike, and is the newest test of whether companies can own colours.
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