Intellectual Property for the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Approaches

B. Courtney Doagoo, Mistrale Goudreau, Madelaine Saginur, Teresa Scassa

Irwin Law, 2014 - Intellectual property - 561 pages

Over the past two decades, globalization, digitization, and the rise of the Internet have each contributed to a new prominence for intellectual property law in public policy debates around the world. Questions about how intellectual property is controlled, licensed, used, and reused are all part of a growing public discourse that now engages far more than an elite cadre of lawyers. Because intellectual property law now trenches so deeply on issues of economics, culture, health, commerce, creativity, and intellectual freedom, it is no surprise that there is also a burgeoning literature on intellectual property issues that comes, not just from legal academics or lawyers, but from those trained in other disciplines. In the spring of 2012, the Centre for Law, Technology, and Society at the University of Ottawa hosted a workshop that sought to bring together academics from different disciplines interested in intellectual property law in order to stimulate discussion across disciplines, to encourage the development of collaborative efforts, and to produce a body of research that explores intellectual property law issues from explicitly interdisciplinary perspectives. The collection of papers in this book is the product of this workshop.

About the author

Dr. B. Courtney Doagoo is an AI and Society Fellow at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society (CLTS), and a Special Advisor to the AI + Society Initiative. Dr. Doagoo researches the social, economic and cultural implications of AI with a particular focus on the role of laws, norms and policies.

Mistrale Goudreau is Full Professor at the Civil Law Section of the University of Ottawa where she has been teaching since 1982. Her areas of teaching include intellectual property, law and technology, and statutory interpretation.

Madelaine Saginur is the Executive Director of University of Ottawa's Centre for Law, Technology, and Society. She has published in the area of bioethics and health law. She holds a BSc from University of Toronto, as well as BCL & LLB degrees from McGill University.

Teresa Scassa is the Canada Research Chair in Information Law at the University of Ottawa, where she is also a Professor at the Faculty of Law. She holds degrees in civil and common law from McGill University and an LLM and PhD in law from the University of Michigan. She is a co-founder and former co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Intellectual Property for the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Editors: B. Courtney Doagoo, Mistrale Goudreau, Madelaine Saginur, Teresa Scassa
• Publisher: Irwin Law, 2014
• ISBN: 1552213536, 9781552213537
• Length: 561 pages