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

— Internet culture threw a wrench into copyright law for music and movies -- now it is online photos at the centre of legal scrutiny due to the popularity of new image-based social networks like Pinterest. The first lawsuit has finally arrived and the plaintiff is none other than Perfect 10, the same company that spent years suing Google for using thumbnail images in search results

— The judge presiding over the Google-Oracle trial described it as “the World Series of IP.” The case turns on whether Google infringed copyrights and patents when it used the Java programming language for smartphones. At a deeper level, it is about what types of work qualify for IP protection. The jury is hung on the copyright portion and the trial is moving to the patent portion.

— The Google Books case has rumbled to life once again as authors demand copyright royalties from Google (which has now scanned more than 20 million works). Meanwhile, Harvard is renewing efforts to have universities and Congress create the Digital Public Library of America.
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