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Quick Summary of the SCC Pentalogy

Quick Summary of the SCC Pentalogy

Jon has mentioned the SCC Pentalogy on copyright a few times in class. If anyone would like a quick summary of the five cases, Osgoode has put together a really useful summary of all of them. Cheers, Ryan Vogt

Secret Chinese Clocks

Secret Chinese Clocks

Following up on last weeks discussion regarding openness of technology, where I mentioned that the first ever mechanical time keeping device was built for a Chinese emperor but was kept secret, arguably slowing down human progress for hundreds of years until the mechanical clock was reinvented in Europe in the 14th century, this came in […]