Publications of Professor David Vaver
Books
Intellectual Property Rights: Critical Concepts in Law (Routledge, 2006), 5 vols.
(sole editor)
Intellectual Property in the New Millennium (Cambridge U.P., October, 2004), coedited with Lionel Bently
Principles of Copyright Law (World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva,
2002), co-edited with Pierre Sirinelli & Hossam Loutfi, plan conceived by Victor
Nabhan
Copyright Law (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2000)
Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trade-marks (Concord, Ont.: Irwin
Law, 1997)
Articles
“Does intellectual property have personality?” in Reinhardt Zimmerman & Niall
Whitty (eds.) in Rights of personality in Scots law: a comparative perspective (Univ.
Dundee Press, 2009), ch 8, to be published
“Chocolate, Copyright, Confusion: Intellectual Property and the Supreme Court of
Canada” (2008) 1 Osgoode Hall Rev. L. Pol’y 5, www.ohrlp.ca
“‘Brand culture: trade marks, marketing and consumption’ – responding legally to
Professor Schroeder’s paper”, in, Lionel Bently, Jennifer Davis & Jane Ginsburg
(eds.), Trade Marks and Brands: An Interdisciplinary Critique (Cambridge UP,
2008), ch. 8
“Copyright and the Internet: From Owner Rights and User Duties to User Rights and
Owner Duties?” 57:3 Case Western L.Rev. – (2007) (to be published); based on
webcast at www.law.case.edu/centers/lta/webcast.asp?dt=20061110&type=wmv&a=1
“Does the public understand intellectual property law? Do lawyers?” in Meredith
Lectures 2006: Intellectual Property at the Edge: New Approaches to IP in a
Transsystemic World (Yvon Blais & Faculty of Law, McGill Univ., 2007), ch 1
“Popping Patented Pills: Europe and a Decade’s Dose of TRIPs” [2006] E.I.P.R. 282
(with Shamnad Basheer); in French translation as “Overdose de medicaments brevets:
l’Europe dans un ‘TRIPS’ depuis dix ans” in Bernard Remiche & Jorge Kors (eds.),
L’Accord ADPIC: dix ans après (Éds. Larcier, Brussels, 2007) 129; to be reprinted in
N. Sudarshan (ed.), Public Health and Law (ICFAI University, Law Books Division,
Hyderabad, 2008)
“Recent Trends in European Trademark Law: Senses, Shapes and Sensation” (2005),
95 Trademark Rep. 895
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“Unconventional and Well-Known Trade Marks” [2005] Sing. Jo. Leg. Stud. 1; to be
reprinted in A V Narsimha Rao (ed.), Trade Marks: Concept and Context (Amicus
Books, ICFAI University, Hyderabad, 2008)
“The Problems of Biotechnologies for Intellectual Property Law” (2004), Cahiers
Prop. Intell. (Hors Série: Mélanges Victor Nabhan), 375
“Le concept d’invention en droit des brevets: bilan et perspective”, in M. Vivant & J.M. Bruguière (eds.), Protéger les inventions de demain: Biotechnologies, logiciels et
méthodes d’affaires (Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle, la Documentation
française, Paris 2003), 271
“Canada’s Intellectual Property Framework: A Comparative Overview” (2003), 17
I.P.J.
125;
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/inippd-dppi.nsf/vwapj/01EN%20Vaver.pdf/$file/01-EN%20Vaver.pdf
“Defining and rewarding invention: a review and a modest proposal for patent law”,
in Peter Mirfield & Roger Smith (eds.), Essays for Colin Tapper (Lexis/Nexis, 2003),
182, slightly revised as “Invention in Patent Law: A Review and A Modest Proposal”
(2003), 11 I.J.L.I.T. 286
“Need Intellectual Property Be Everywhere?: Against Ubiquity and Uniformity”
(2002), 25 Dalhousie L.J. 1
“The Copyright Mixture in a Mixed Legal System: Fit for Human Consumption?”
[2002] Jurid. Rev. 101, also (2001), 5:3 Electronic Jo. Compar. Law
<www.ejcl.org/52/art52-3.html>
“Creating a Fair Intellectual Property System for the 21st Century” (2001), 10 Otago
L.R. 1; modified version, “Recreating a Fair Intellectual Property System for the 21st
Century” (2001), 15 I.P.J. 123
“Intellectual Property Law: The State of the Art” (2000), 116 L.Q.R. 621; republished
in (2001), 32 V.U.W.L.R. 1 (Special Issue on Intellectual Property) and Susy Frankel
& Geoff Smith (eds.) Essays on Intellectual Property Law and Policy (V.U.W.L.R.,
2001), 1, www.nzlii.org/nz/journals/VUWLRev/2001/2.html; published in Chinese
translation (trans. by Li Yufeng) in (2007:4) Wan Huida (Intellectual Property), vol.
17 (no. 100), 88
“Copyright in Europe: The Good, The Bad and the Harmonised” (1999), 10 Aust.
I.P.J. 185; slightly modified as “Copyright Developments in Europe: The Good, The
Bad and the Harmonized” in Niva Elkin-Koren & Neil W. Netanel (eds.), The
Commodification of Information (Kluwer Law Int’l, 2002), 223; translated into
Ukranian in Y. Kapitsa (ed.), Copyright and Related Rights in Europe (to be
published 2008).
“Moral Rights: The Irish Spin” (1999), 3:3 Irish I.P. Rev. 3
“Moral Rights Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” (1999), 7 I.J.L.I.T. 270;
http://eprints.ouls.ox.ac.uk:81/inttec/hdb/Volume_07/Issue_03/abstracts/070270.sgm
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“Copyright Law: Recent Canadian Developments” (1998), 16 Austl. Bus. L.R. 412
“The Copyright Amendments of 1997” (1997), 12 I.P.J. 53
“Copyright in Canada: The New Millennium” (1997), 12 I.P.J. 117; in French
translation (by Élisabeth Guéry) as “La loi sur le droit d’auteur au Canada: le
troisième millénaire” (1997), 10 Cahiers Prop. Intell. 91
“Copyright and the State in Canada and the United States” (1996), 10 I.P.J. 187;
www.lexum.umontreal.ca/conf/dac/en/vaver/vaver.html
“Rejuvenating Copyright” (1996), 75 Can. Bar Rev. 69; www.cba.org/cba_barreview/
“Rejuvenating Copyright, Digitally”, in Symposium of Digital Technology and
Copyright (Min. of Public Works & Services Can. 1995, Ottawa), 1
“The Exclusive Licence in Copyright” (1995), 9 I.P.J. 163
“Abridgments and Abstracts: Copyright Implications” [1995] E.I.P.R. 225
“Limitations in Intellectual Property: ‘The Time is out of Joint’” (1994), 73 Can. Bar
Rev. 451; www.cba.org/cba_barreview/
“Translation and Copyright: A Canadian Focus” [1994] E.I.P.R. 159
“Report on Moral Rights: Canada”, in Association Littéraire et Artistique
Internationale, Le droit moral de l’auteur/The moral right of the author, Congress of
Antwerp 19-24 September 1993 (ALAI, Paris, 1994), 207
“Copyright in Legal Documents” (1993), 31 Osgoode Hall L.J. 661
“Unsettling Insurance Settlements: Of Unconscionability and Other Things” (1992),
50 The Advocate 749
“Keeping Secrets, Legally Speaking” (1992), 13 Adv. Q’ly 334
“Can Intellectual Property be Taken to Satisfy a Judgment Debt?” (1991), 6 Banking
& Finance L.Rev. 255
“Dramatic and Musical Reproductions and Performances: Copyright and Performers’
Rights and their Implications for Educators” (1991), 6 I.P.J. 239
“Copyright Phase 2: The New Horizon” (1990), 6 I.P.J. 37; in French translation as
“Le droit d’auteur, phase 2: De nouveaux horizons” (1989), 2 Cahiers Prop. Intell. 83
“Intellectual Property Today: Of Myths and Paradoxes” (1990), 69 Can. Bar Rev. 98;
slightly modified as “Some Agnostic Observations on Intellectual Property” (1991), 6
I.P.J. 125; reprinted in K.R.G. Nair & Ashok Kumar (eds.), Intellectual Property
Rights (Allied Publishers Ltd, India, 1994), 238 and Peter Drahos (ed.), Intellectual
Property (Ashgate, Dartmouth, 1999), 485 ff
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“What is a Trade Secret?” in Roger T. Hughes QC (ed.), Trade Secrets (Law Society
of Upper Canada, Toronto, 1990), ch. 1
“Canada Starts Reforming its Copyright Law” (1989), 10 J. Media Law & Practice 58
“Canada”, in Melville B. Nimmer & Paul E. Geller (eds.), International Copyright
Law and Practice, 2 vols. (Matthew Bender, N.Y., 1988, with annual releases 198998)
“Authors’ Moral Rights and the Copyright Law Review Committee’s Report:
W(h)ither Such Rights Now?” (1988), 14 Monash U.L.Rev. 284
“Unconscionability: Panacea, Analgesic or Loose Can(n)on?” (1988), 14 Can. Bus.
L.J. 40
“Developments in Contract Law: The 1985-86 Term” (1987), 9 Sup. Ct. L.Rev. 181
“Authors’ Moral Rights - Reform Proposals in Canada: Charter or Barter of Rights for
Creators?” (1987), 25 Osgoode Hall L.J. 749
“Copyright in Foreign Works: Canada’s International Obligations” (1987), 66 Can.
Bar Rev. 76
“The National Treatment Requirements of the Berne and Universal Copyright
Conventions” (1986), 17 IIC 577 (Part I), 715 (Part II); in German translation (by
Thomas Dietz) as “Die Inländerbehandlung nach der Berner Übereinkunft und dem
Welturheberrechtsabkommen” (1988), GRUR Int. 191
“Developments in Contract Law: The 1984-85 Term” (1986), 8 Sup. Ct. L.Rev. 109
“Chief Justice Laskin and the Law of Contracts” (1985), 7 Sup. Ct. L.Rev. 131
“Summary Expungement of Registered Trademarks on the Ground of Non-Use”
(1983), 21 Osgoode Hall L.J. 17
“Snow v. The Eaton Centre: Wreaths on Sculpture Prove Accolade for Artists’ Moral
Rights” (1983), 8 Can. Bus. L.J. 81
“Authors’ Moral Rights in Canada” (1983), 14 IIC 329
“What’s Mine is Not Yours: Commercial Appropriation of Personality under the
Privacy Acts of British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan” (1981), 15 U.B.C.
L.Rev. 241
“Civil Liability for Taking or Using Trade Secrets in Canada” (1981), 5 Can. Bus.
L.J. 253
“Trade Secrets: A Commonwealth Perspective” [1979] E.I.P.R. 301
“What's In a Name? Rights in Respect of the Commercial Exploitation of Real and
Fictional Characters” [1979] Annual Indust. Prop. Law 211.
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“New Zealand”, in H.L. Dawid (ed.), Pinner’s World Unfair Competition Law: An
Encyclopedia (Sijthoff & Noordhoff, Alphen aan de Rijn, 1978), 4 vols.
“The Protection of Character Merchandising – A Survey of Some Common Law
Jurisdictions” (1978), 6 IIC 541
“Contracts for the Sale of Land: Recent Developments” [1978] N.Z. Recent Law 78,
124, 163, 202, 235
“‘Without Prejudice’ Communications – Their Admissibility and Effect” (1974), 9
U.B.C. L.Rev. 85
“Medical Privilege in New Zealand” (1969), 1 Auck. U.L.Rev. 63
Shorter articles & notes
(with T. Piper), “Ownership of Medical Images: Learning from eDiaMoND” in
William H. Dutton & Paul W. Jeffreys (eds.), World Wide Research (M.I.T. Press,
2009, to be published)
“Le Cas ‘Swizzle’: IVe concours oxonien de la plaidoirie en matière de propriété
intellectuelle” 2007-1 Revue de la Recherche Juridique: Droit Prospectif (vol. 32:117)
521 (trans. David Lefranc)
“Advertising using an Individual’s Image: a Comparative Note” (2006), 122 L.Q.R.
362
“Publishers & copyright: rights without duties?” (2006), 40(6) Bibliotheksdienst 743
(www.zlb.de/aktivitaeten/bd_neu/heftinhalte2006/Recht020606.pdf); in French trans.
(by Ejan Mackaay) as “L’image publique des éditeurs et du droit d’auteur” (2007),
19:1 Cahiers Prop. Intell. 303
“Taking Stock” [1999] E.I.P.R. 339
“Issues of Current Concern in European Intellectual Property Law” in English and
Japanese translation, in Institute of Intellectual Property & St Catherine’s College,
Oxford, Issues of Current Concern in European and Japanese Intellectual Property
Law [English translation of Japanese] (Tokyo, 1999)
“Commentary”, in Proceedings of the Colloquium on The Collective Administration
of Copyright, (1995, Copyright Board of Canada, Ottawa), 161
“Copyright Inside the Law Library” (1995), 53 The Advocate 355
“Record and Software Rentals: The Copyright Spin” (1995), 10 I.P.J. 109
“Tripping through TRIPs: Canada and Copyright” (1994), 22 Can. Law Newsletter
53, Summer 1994 (ABA, Canadian Law/Section of International Law & Practice)
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“Clipping Services and Copyright” (1994), 8 I.P.J. 379
“Intellectual Property: Copyright and New Technologies” (with Victor Nabhan), in
Canadian Comparative Law Association/Institute of Comparative Law, Contemporary
Law/Droit Contemporain: Canadian Reports to the 1990 International Congress of
Comparative Law, Montreal 1990 (Yvon Blais, Québec, 1992), 361
“Contracts for the Sale of Goods in Canada” (1982), Juristo (No. 762) 119 (in
Japanese translation)
“Infringing Copyright in a Competitor’s Advertising: Damages ‘At Large’ Can Be
Large Damages” (1984), 1 I.P.J. 186
“‘Battle of the Forms’: A Comment on Professor Shanker’s Views” (1980), 4 Can.
Bus. L.J. 277
“Law Reform: Professional Privilege in New Zealand” [1977] N.Z. Recent Law 336
“Sale of Land to Purchaser or his Nominee” [1974] N.Z.L.J 531
“Contracts – Validation of Illegal Contracts” [1974] N.Z.L.J. 149
“Real Estate Agent – Agent for Whom?” [1974] N.Z.L.J. 57
“Copyright in the Commercial World” [1974] N.Z. Recent Law 20
“Copyright – Literary Work” [1974] N.Z.L.J. 515
“Motor Vehicle Accident Insurance – A Question of Safety” [1974] N.Z.L.J. 58
“Illegal Contracts – Validation” [1973] N.Z.L.J. 383
“Real Estate Agent – Commission” [1973] N.Z.L.J. 287
“Car Leasing – Those Hire Purchase Regulations Again!” [1973] N.Z.L.J. 156
Book reviews
Michael Bridge, Sale of Goods: (1990), 5 Banking & Finance L.Rev. 387
Michael Blakeney & Jill McKeough (eds.), Intellectual Property: Commentary and
Materials: (1988), 3 I.P.J. 347
Hugh Beale, Remedies for Breach of Contracts: (1981), 19 U.W. Ont. L.Rev. 394
Christine Boyle & David Percy (eds.), Contracts: Cases and Commentaries: (1979),
17 U. Alta. L.Rev. 567.
Douglas Falconer, William Aldous & David Young (eds.), Terrell on the Law of
Patents (12th ed.): (1974), 5 N.Z.U.L.R. 410
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Working or unpublished papers
“Chocolate, Copyright, Confusion: Intellectual Property and the Supreme Court of
Canada”, mms://media.osgoode.yorku.ca/events/LewtasLecture-Oct242007.wmv
“The Enforcement of Copyright and Related Rights under the TRIPs Agreement” and
“The Dispute Settlement Mechanism of the World Trade Organization”, Working
Paper No. 1, April 2000 (Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre)
“Venturing into Intellectual Property Jointly and Confidentially” (WP 02/99), OIPRC
E-Jo. IPR, www.oiprc.ox.ac.uk
Introduction to Issues of Current Concern in European Intellectual Property law,W(P
08/99), OIPRC E-Jo. IPR, www.oiprc.ox.ac.uk
“The Future of Intellectual Property Law: Japanese and European Perspectives
Compared”, WP 09/99, OIPRC E-Jo. IPR, www.oiprc.ox.ac.uk
“Intellectual Property: Where’s the World Going?”, OIPRC Seminar Paper No.
S01/99, OIPRC E-Jo. IPR, www.oiprc.ox.ac.uk
“Internationalizing Copyright Law: Implementing the WIPO Treaties”, OIPRC
Working Paper No. 01/99 (Nov. 98), www.oiprc.ox.ac.uk