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Guarding a Cultural Icon: Concurrent Intellectual Property Regimes and the Perpetual Protection of Anne of Green Gables in Canada.

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  • Title: Guarding a Cultural Icon: Concurrent Intellectual Property Regimes and the Perpetual Protection of Anne of Green Gables in Canada.
  • Author : McGill Law Journal
  • Release Date : January 01, 2011
  • Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 381 KB

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This article uses the various intellectual property protections afforded to the classic children's novel Anne of Green Gables as a means of illustrating the blurring between copyright, trademark, and official marks regimes in Canada. By not keeping these regimes distinct, the author argues, Canadian intellectual property law seriously threatens the integrity of the public domain, a central means by which an appropriate balance is struck between the interests of authors, other cultural producers, and the public at large. The blurring between regimes is located in three conceptual sites: origin in copyright versus source in trademark; reputation in copyright versus goodwill in trademark; and the weak requirement that a public authority serve a "public benefit" in order to qualify for official marks protection, without any consideration of the public interest served by the limitations on protections built into the other intellectual property regimes. Reinforcing the distinctions between regimes and clarifying the public benefit requirement for official marks would help protect, the public domain from unjustified encroachments that potentially deprive us of access to creative works of shared cultural significance. Faisant reference aux differentes protections en matiere de propriete intellectuelle dont beneficie le livre pour enfants Anne aux pignons verts, cet article met en evidence le brouillage des lignes entre les regimes canadiens de droit d'auteur, de marque de commerce et de marque officielle. L'auteure soutient qu'en ne maintenant pas ces regimes distincts l'un de l'autre, le droit canadien en matiere de propriete intellectuelle menace serieusement l'integrite du domaine public, qui est essentiel au juste equilibre entre les interets des auteurs, des autres producteurs culturels et ceux du grand public. Le brouillage entre les regimes survient a trois endroits conceptuels : origine en matiere de droit d'auteur versus source en matiere de marque de commerce ; reputation en matiere de droit d'auteur versus achalandage en matiere de marque de commerce ; et la faible exigence selon laquelle une autorite publique doit contribuer au bien public afin d'etre eligible a la protection du regime des marques officielles, sans aucune consideration de l'interet public servi par les limites a la protection qui sont integrees aux autres regimes de propriete intellectuelle. Le fait de renforcer la distinction entre les regimes et de clarifier l'exigence de bien public en matiere de marques officielles contribuerait a proteger le domaine public des empietements injustifies qui nous privent potentiellement d'acces aux oeuvres creatives d'importance culturelle partagee.


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