Teresa Scassa
Professor, Faculty of Law University of Ottawa
- Ottawa ON
Teresa Scassa is the Canada Research Chair in Information Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Common Law
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BIOGRAPHIE FRANÇAIS
Teresa Scassa est la Chaire de recherche du Canada en droit de l’information à la faculté de droit (section de common law) de l’Université d’Ottawa. Elle est diplômée en droit de la faculté de droit de l’Université McGill, et a obtenu sa maitrise et son doctorat en droit de l’Université de Michigan. Elle est auteure de Canadian Trademark Law 2e édition (Lexis/Nexis 2015) et co-auteure de Electronic Commerce and Internet Law in Canada 2e édition (CCH Canadian 2012). Dr. Scassa était membre du Comité consultatif sur le gouvernement ouvert du gouvernement fédéral et du Comité consultatif externe du Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada. Elle a publié plusieurs articles dans plusieurs champs d’études incluant la propriété intellectuelle, le droit à la vie privée, et le droit et la technologie.
Industry Expertise
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Accomplishments
Co-Founder, Canadian Journal of Law and Technology
2016-06-01
Co-founder (with Michael Deturbide) of the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology
GeoThink
2016-05-09
Funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant Program and generous contributions from grant partners.
University of Ottawa, APUO Award for Excellence in Research, 2015
2015-11-02
Research excellence award
Canadian Association of Law Teachers Academic Excellence Award
2014-05-19
Award for Academic Excellence
Canada Research Chair in Information Law
2012-10-01
Research Chair
Education
University of Michigan
Ph.D.
Law
University of Michigan
LLM
Law
McGill University
LLB
Civil and Common Law
Languages
- English
- French
Media Appearances
Canadian retailer pulls 'stolen' sacred Inuit design from stores
CBC Radio - As It Happens radio
2015-11-26
Scassa is an intellectual property expert and professor of law at the University of Ottawa. Although she sympathizes with Awa, Scassa says her family has very little legal protection against the label.
Teresa Scassa is an intellectual property expert at the University of Ottawa. (University of Ottawa)
Scassa explains that in Canada, copyright is protected for the life of the author plus an additional 50 years. Depending on when Awa's great-grandfather passed away, the original design may not have fallen into public domain. But either way, Scassa says the case will be difficult.
"This is not the kind of thing that Canadian law has really recognized in the past," Scassa says. "The protection for indigenous cultural property and traditional knowledge is fairly weak in Canada."...
Who owns the smart city?
CBC Radio - Spark radio
2015-11-22
These sensors are meant to produce meaningful, timely data that will make cities more efficient and responsive. Many plans for smart cities involve collaboration with private companies. The question is: who owns the data that's gathered, and what can be done with it? Teresa Scassa is a law professor at the University of Ottawa. She's concerned that when cities create smart city partnerships with private tech companies, they may lose control of the data...
Gare aux fausses accusations sur les réseaux sociaux
Le Droit print
2015-05-27
Au lendemain de l'annonce de Facebook Canada de diffuser des alertes Amber sur les fils d'actualité de ses abonnés, tous s'entendaient pour dire que cette initiative doit permettre de sauver d'autres bébés des mains d'un kidnappeur, comme cela a été le cas il y a un an, à Trois-Rivières. Un bébé naissant avait alors été retrouvé grâce à la vigilance d'internautes et à la diffusion rapide d'informations sur Facebook.
Quand le téléviseur nous écoute
Le Devoir print
2015-02-10
Les intrusions dans la vie privée se suivent et ne se ressemblent pas. Lundi, Samsung, le géant sud-coréen de l’électronique, a dû s’expliquer après le dévoilement dans les univers numériques d’une composante troublante de ses Smart TV, téléviseurs dits « intelligents », car ils sont connectés à Internet, et qui peuvent écouter et transmettre à une tierce partie les discussions pouvant être tenues devant l’appareil. Avant, on écoutait la télévision. Aujourd’hui, l’inverse devient également vrai.
Adeptes de téléchargement, prenez garde
Radio-Canada radio
2015-01-19
La professeure à la faculté de droit de l'Université d'Ottawa et membre de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en droit de l'information, Teresa Scassa, présente la nouvelle réglementation canadienne en matière de droit d'auteur sur Internet. Cette dernière est entrée en vigueur au début du mois de janvier.
Artist sues after TV show films Montreal building that he had tagged with graffiti
The National Post print
2014-07-28
Teresa Scassa, a University of Ottawa law professor specializing in intellectual property, said there are few precedents in Canada for the copyright protection of graffiti. The federal Copyright Act includes an exemption allowing people to film or photograph public sculptures and architectural works, but it does not mention paintings.
Prof. Scassa Wins 2013-2014 CALT Award for Academic Excellence
University of Ottawa online
2014-06-09
Professor Teresa Scassa has been awarded the 2013-2014 Canadian Association of Law Teachers (CALT) Award for Academic Excellence. The prize will be bestowed at the annual CALT conference banquet on June 7, 2014, in Winnipeg.
“The CALT Prize for Academic Excellence honours exceptional contribution to research and law teaching by a Canadian law teacher in mid-career,” reads the CALT website. In addition to the Academic Excellence Award, CALT will also give out its Scholarly Paper Award, which recognizes the work of new scholars whose papers make a substantial contribution to legal literature, to Professor Eric Adams of the University of Alberta.
Event Appearances
“The Fine Art of Trademarks: Balancing Owners’ Rights with Artistic Expression”
American Law and Property Scholars Association Conference Queen's University of Belfast
2016-05-21
Mapping Crime: Civic Technology in the Emerging Smart Cities Context
American Association of Geographers Annual Conference San Francisco, USA
2016-03-30
Big Data, Smart Cities and Privacy
Privacy Security Days 2.0 Algonquin College, Ottawa, ON
2016-02-24
Privacy and Open Government: A Balancing Act
United Nations Experts Group New York, NY
2016-02-18
Managing Intellectual Property Rights in Citizen Science
Wilson Centre Commons Lab Washington, DC
2015-12-15
Articles
Legal issues in mapping traditional knowledge: Digital cartography in the Canadian North
The Cartographic Journal2015
Digital cartography offers great potential for mapping the traditional knowledge of indigenous communities. This is particularly so because of the close relationship between such knowledge and traditional lands. Yet the mapping of traditional knowledge also ...
Privacy and Open Government
Future Internet2014
The public-oriented goals of the open government movement promise increased transparency and accountability of governments, enhanced citizen engagement and participation, improved service delivery, economic development and the stimulation of ...
Ambush Marketing Legislation to Protect Olympic Sponsors: A Step Too Far in the Name of Brand Protection?
Intellectual Property for the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Approaches2014
Ambush marketing and its possible threat to brand equity has been identified as a key concern for mega sport event organisations and their sponsors. In recent years, international sport federations have sought to leverage the enormous interest in hosting ...
Legal issues with volunteered geographic information
The Canadian Geographer2013
Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is a relatively new and rapidly developing activity with varying degrees of organization and legal sophistication that involves host sites, contributors, and users. VGI related activities raise a variety of legal issues, from ...
Canadian Intellectual Property Law: Cases and Materials
University of Western Ontario2013
Canadian courts and Parliament are seeing unprecedented activity in the area of intellectual property (IP) law. An overhaul of the Copyright Act, proposed new legislative enforcement mechanisms for copyrights and trademarks, and recent rulings from the Supreme Court of Canada all challenge the core doctrines underlying intellectual property law...
Police Service Crime Mapping as Civic Technology: A Critical Perspective
Intenrational Journal of E-Planning Research2016-08-17
It is increasingly common for municipal police services in North America to make online crime maps available to the public. This form of civic technology is now so widely used that there is a competitive private sector market for crime mapping platforms. This paper considers the crime maps made available by three Canadian police forces using platforms developed by U.S.-based private sector corporations. The paper considers how these crime maps present particular narratives of crime in the city, evaluates the quality of the mapped data, and explores how laws shape and constrain the use and reuse of crime data. It considers as well the problems that may arise in using off-the-shelf solutions – particularly ones developed in another country. It asks whether this model of crime mapping advances or limits goals of transparency and accountability, and what lessons it offers about the use of private sector civic technologies to serve public sector purposes.
Canadian Trademark Law, 2d Edition
LexisNexisIn this new edition of Canadian Trademark Law, renowned intellectual property expert Teresa Scassa discusses how these amendments have changed the pre-existing legislative framework and, consequently, modified the basic principles of trademark law.
