The will be holding its annual workshop in Toronto, July 12th-14th, 2017. Organized by the Centre for Innovation law and Policy at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, and co-sponsored in part by Osgoode Hall Law School and IP Osgoode, the workshop will explore all aspects of the circulation/control dilemma from historical and contemporary perspectives. Modalities of control to be considered include: licensing practices; distribution and business models; collectivization; cultural appropriation; authors, inventors and ownership; criminal provisions; international trade agreements; technological means of control such as technological protection measures, anti-circumvention laws, search engines and aggregators; surveillance and policing by law enforcement agencies, ISPs, trolls; and organized resistance to corporate control by users and pirate movements.
The workshop agenda boasts an impressive line-up of pre-eminent and interdisciplinary IP scholars from around the globe including IP Osgoode's own and , Osgoode's newest faculty appointee. For more information about the event, click .