All the Irish fuss over a silly little book and the first ever copyright case.
Without the Berne Convention, no law would protect the works of authors internationally. The Internet, in particular, would be the Wild West.
Canada's super trademark, fondly known to Government as a "Section 9 trade-mark"; a trademark which a public authority may reserve and use at any time even if it creates confusion with the existing mark.
These words which freeflow from your computer monitor to your brain through your eyes ... ARE COPYRIGHT! This article takes a look at this strange beast the law calls "copyright", represented by the little "c" in a circle, and which afflicts all the sheet music, plays, web pages, books, movies and newspapers we enjoy. And that's ©!
Cue the theme from the Twilight Zone ... Oops! That's copyright. Cue silence and then ... the voice of James Earl Jones "welcome to the hissssstory of copyright laaaw".
The law of Internet domain names; URLs, and the uneasy marriage with trade-mark law.
Patents are little legal robots with 20-year life spans that give inventors monopolies for their original machines. They are handy and very valuable little devices and have made - and continue to make - many an "old money" fortune.
Trade-marks or, to use the USA usage, "trademarks", are used by persons selling goods or services to distinguish these from those of others, as duhaime.org does with it's domain name or the underlying law firm, Duhaime Law™ does with those words and Affordable Justice®. This article looks at the law of trade-marks.
This international treaty, along with its alternate, the Berne Convention, forms a one-two punch to assert copyright worldwide.
Yet another international copyright treaty but this time, aimed at computerized documents.