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LAW | TECHNOLOGY

I am an Assistant Professor of Law & Computer Science at Dalhousie University
and a doctoral researcher in Law at the European University Institute. My
research interests concentrate on the relationship between intellectual
property, embedded computer systems, market competition, and personal property
rights.

I am particularly interested in the way that software, computerisation and new
technologies are being used to create new concepts of ownership and access in an
increasingly automated world. Much of my work has been focused on the extent to
which IP rights (when combined with technological design) have undermined the
personal agency and fundamental rights of users. Along these lines, the Right to
Repair has been a core focus of my scholarly work and policy advocacy.

My doctoral thesis investigates the role of software technological protection
measures (often referred to as “digital locks”) in enabling the transformation
of products into services, remote data collection by manufacturers, and firmware
restrictions which act to hinder interoperability, innovation, and repair. The
thesis project investigates the rationale, design, implementation, and effects
of software technological protection measures across the medical equipment,
consumer electronics, and agricultural equipment industries.


AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, ETC

 1. Research Fellow, Griffith University (ARC Future Fellowship – Unlocking
    digital innovation: intellectual property and the right to repair, Prof.
    Leanne Wiseman), Brisbane, Australia [2024].
 2. CREATe Fellow, University of Glasgow (Knowledge Rights 21 Study on the
    Impact of Technological Protection Measures), Glasgow, UK [2023-2024].
 3. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) Doctoral Award
    (2021).
 4. Hans Kelsen Special Doctoral Fellowship, European University Institute
    [2020-2024].
 5. Legal Research Intern, World Trade Organization (Intellectual Property
    Division), Geneva, Switzerland [2019].


RECENT REFEREED AND IN PROGRESS WORKS

 1. Anthony D. Rosborough and Aaron Perzanowski, “Repair as Research: How
    Copyright Impedes Learning About Devices” (2023) 8 Joint PIJIP/TLS Research
    Paper Series [American University Digital Commons].
 2. Anthony D. Rosborough, Leanne Wiseman & Taina Pihlajarinne, “Achieving a
    (copy)right to repair for the EU’s green economy” (2023) 18:5 Oxford Journal
    of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 344-352 [OJIPLP].
 3. Anthony D. Rosborough, “Toward a Canadian Right to Repair: Opportunities and
    Challenges” (2022) 37:3 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1197-1212 [Berkeley
    Repository].
 4. Anthony D. Rosborough, “Zen and the Art of Repair Manuals: Enabling a
    Participatory Right to Repair Through an Autonomous Concept of EU Copyright
    Law” (2022) 13(2) JIPITEC 113-131.[JIPITEC].
 5. Anthony D. Rosborough, “Technologies of Servitude: Understanding Firmware
    TPMs as Interests in Personal Property” (2022) 19:3 J L & Tech 39-71.
 6. Anthony D. Rosborough and Reagan Seidler, “Intangible Justice? Intellectual
    Property Disputes and Canadian Small Claims Courts” (2022) 47(2) Queens Law
    Journal 1-29 [SSRN].
 7. Anthony D. Rosborough, “If a Machine Could Talk, We Would Not Understand It:
    Canadian Innovation and the Copyright Act’s TPM Interoperability Framework”,
    (2021) 19 J L & Tech 141-171 [SSRN].
 8. Anthony D. Rosborough, “Unscrewing the Future: The Right to Repair and
    Circumvention of Software TPMs in the EU” (2020) 11:1 JIPITEC 26-48 [SSRN].
 9. Lucie Guibault & Anthony D. Rosborough, “Copyright in the Public Interest:
    Canada’s Perceptual Disability Framework”, in Jani McCutcheon and Ana
    Ramalho (eds), International Perspectives on Disability Exceptions in
    Copyright Law and the Visual Arts, (Routledge, 2020).


PRESENTATIONS | SPEAKING | INTERVIEWS

 1.  2024-05-29: Conference presentation, “The Right to Repair Medical Devices”,
     Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society (CMBES) Conference
     (CMBEC46), Toronto, Canada.
 2.  2024-05-23: Public Lecture, “Repair as Competition”, Griffith University
     Law Futures Lecture, Brisbane, Australia.
 3.  2024-04-16: Panellist, United States Copyright Office Section 1201 Public
     Hearing: “Proposed Class 5 – Computer Programs – Repair”.
 4.  2024-04-10: Interviewee, “Toward a Canadian Right to Repair”, Dalhousie Law
     Journal Podcast, Episode 38.
 5.  2024-04-02: Interviewee, “Why nothing works with anything else”, The Big
     Story Podcast, Episode 1067.
 6.  2024-03-06: Presentation, “International Source Code Secrecy and Why You
     Should (Probably) Care About It”, Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie
     University, Halifax, Canada.
 7.  2024-01-06: Interviewee, “Right to repair aims to make gadgets last
     longer”, CBC’s The National.
 8.  2023-12-08: Interviewee, “The Fight for Your Right to Repair”, CBC’s Spark
     with Nora Young.
 9.  2023-12-06: Amicus Curiae, Matthew Green v DOJ, No. 21-5195 (D.C. Cir.
     2022) [Brief prepared and filed by Charles Duan, American University
     Washing College of Law].
 10. 2023-12-03: Interviewee, “The Right to Repair in Canada”, Radio QRCalgary.
 11. 2023-11-09: Interviewee, “Morning Shot: Fix or Toss? Will the right to
     repair be the demise of intellectual property?”, MoneyFM983 Singapore.
 12. 2023-07-31: Interviewee, “Demanding a right to repair”, Canadian Bar
     Association’s National Magazine.
 13. 2023-06-05: “Alissa Centivany and Anthony Rosborough on Repairing Canada’s
     Right to Repair”, Law Bytes Podcast (Michael Geist), Episode 169.
 14. 2023-05-13: Interviewee, “Right to Repair: Why is it so difficult to fix
     our electronics?”, Global News story by Krista Hessey.
 15. 2023-03-09: Contributing speaker (with Professor Aaron Perzanowski and
     Pascale Chapdelaine), “The Intellectual Property Implications of the Right
     to Repair”, LTEC Lab, Windsor Law.
 16. 2023-03-08: Witness, Standing Committee on Science and Technology (INDU),
     Bill C-294, An Act to Amend the Copyright Act (interoperability),
     Parliament of Canada.
 17. 2023-03-02: Guest lecture, “The Right to Repair”, LAWS 2028: Copyright Law,
     The Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University.
 18. 2023-02-22: Guest lecture, “The Right to Repair”, Intellectual Property
     Law, The University of Glasgow School of Law.
 19. 2023-02-20: Guest lecture & seminar, CopyrightX: Fair Use & Misuse, The
     University of Glasgow School of Law.
 20. 2023-02-08: Witness, Standing Committee on Science and Technology (INDU),
     Bill C-244, An Act to Amend the Copyright Act (diagnosis, maintenance and
     repair), Parliament of Canada.
 21. 2023-01-26: Webinar panelist, “The Right to Repair”, The International
     Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI).
 22. 2022-11-21: Webinar contributor, “The Debate over Right to Repair in
     Agriculture: What role for provincial government?“, Canada West Foundation
     Webinar.
 23. 2022-11-17: Conference panelist, “The Right To Repair, Intellectual
     Property, and Software” European Consumer Day 2022: Empowering consumers
     for a more sustainable world, European Economic and Social Committee
     (Brussels, Belgium)
 24. 2022-10-31: Conference panelist, “Zen and the Art of Repair Manuals:
     Enabling a Participatory Right to Repair Through an Autonomous Concept of
     EU Copyright Law”, Rethinking Copyright Flexibilities (ReCreating EU)
     (University of Cyprus)
 25. 2022-09-20: Guest speaker, “The Right to Repair”, Law & Technology Virtual
     Speaker Series, The Law & Technology Institute at the Schulich School of
     Law (Dalhousie University).
 26. 2022-09-14: Webinar speaker, “Repair and copyright: Overcoming the
     invisible barriers to repair“, Hosted by the European Environmental Bureau
     & Repair.eu.
 27. 2022-06-30: Conference panelist, “Green Tech Talk: New Digital Economy for
     Workers, Consumers & The Environment”, The Greens/EFA in the European
     Parliament.
 28. 2022-04-13: Conference panelist, “Repair in the International Context”, UC
     Berkeley Repair Symposium – 26th Annual BCLT/BTLJ Symposium, “The Emergent
     Right to Repair“.
 29. 2022-03-23: Guest speaker, “Right to Repair” Bande Pensante BandWit Webcast
     [Online/Streaming].
 30. 2021-12-19: Presentation, “Repair Manuals and EU Copyright Law”, CREATe
     Morning Coffee Series, University of Glagsow.
 31. 2021-10-08: Conference Presentation, “Are TPMs Ownership Rights?”, Are We
     Owned? A Multidisciplinary and Comparative Conversation on Intellectual
     Property in the Algorithmic Society, University of Stirling.
 32. 2021-10-01: Conference Presentation, “The Right to Repair”, ALAI Study Days
     (Copyright, Competition and Innovation), Madrid, Spain.
 33. 2021-09-07: Conference Presentation, “Zen and the Art of Repair
     Information: Copyright, the Right to Repair, and the EU’s Circular
     Economy”, European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP 2021), Madrid,
     Spain.
 34. 2021-09-02: Conference Co-Host with Professor Alissa Centivany (Western
     University), “Fixing Digital Locks”, Big Data at the Margins Lecture
     Series, featuring guest speakers Professor Michael Geist, Kyle Wiens
     (iFixit) and Dr. Tarek Loubani, online.
 35. 2021-08-21: Interviewee, “Farmers seeking ‘right to repair’ rules to fix
     their own tractors gain White House ally”, CBC News story by Tony Seskus.


OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS

 1.  Anthony D. Rosborough & Carlo Dade, “System Update Required: Farming the
     Software Age: Interoperability and provincial legislation” (March 2024)
     Canada West Foundation Policy Brief.
 2.  Alissa Centivany & Anthony D. Rosborough, “A clearer right-to-repair
     picture emerges in Canada, but uncertainties remain” (20 December 2023)
     Policy Options.
 3.  Anthony D. Rosborough, “Canada’s Fall Economic Statement signals the ‘right
     to repair’ your tech devices (3 December 2023), The Conversation.
 4.  Anthony D. Rosborough & Daniel Rangel, “The Right to Repair needs to extend
     to software, too – and trade deals could be in the way” (23 November 2023),
     The Globe and Mail.
 5.  Anthony D. Rosborough & Alissa Centivany, “The empty success of recent
     amendments to Canada’s right-to-repair bill” (1 May 2023) Policy Options.
 6.  Anthony D. Rosborough, “Apple’s pledge to let consumers repair their own
     gadgets doesn’t go far enough” (21 December 2021) Corporate Knights.
 7.  Anthony D. Rosborough, “The InfoSoc Directive and the Right to Repair:
     exploring the boundaries of a lesser-known copyright exception” (14
     December 2022) online: Kluwer Copyright Blog
     <http://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2022/12/14/the-infosoc-directive-and-the-right-to-repair-exploring-the-boundaries-of-a-lesser-known-copyright-exception>.
 8.  Pascale Chapdelaine & Anthony D. Rosborough et al., “A Modern Copyright
     Framework for the Internet of Things (IoT): Intellectual Property Scholars’
     Joint Submission to the Canadian Government Consultation” (24 June 2021)
     [SSRN].
 9.  Anthony D. Rosborough, “A Canadian Right to Repair bill sees 330-0 vote, as
     measure clears key hurdle” (3 June 2021) online: Repair.org
     <https://www.repair.org/blog/2021/6/3/a-canadian-right-to-repair-bill-sees-330-0-vote-as-measure-clears-key-hurdle>.
 10. Anthony D. Rosborough, “Canada needs right-to-repair legislation” (14 May
     2021) online: Policy Options
     <https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/may-2021/canada-needs-right-to-repair-legislation/>
 11. Anthony D. Rosborough, “Science Fiction and AI: Lawmaking lessons from the
     mythical origins of copyright law” (5 May 2021) online: EUIdeas
     <https://euideas.eui.eu/2021/05/05/science-fiction-and-ai-lawmaking-lessons-from-the-mythical-origins-of-copyright-law/>.
 12. Anthony D. Rosborough & Carlo Dade, “The serious hidden problem facing
     Canada’s agricultural innovators” (25 February 2021) online: Policy
     Options.
 13. Anthony D. Rosborough, “The Right to Repair Medical Equipment During a
     Pandemic”, Nova Voce 38:2 (2020) 28, online: [https://perma.cc/GR23-6KVZ].



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