Ysolde Gendreau graduated from McGill University where she obtained her B.C.L., LL.B., and LL.M. She is also docteur en droit of the Université de Paris II. She is professor at the Université de Montréal, where she teaches intellectual property law and competition law.
She has taught at McGill University, Université de Paris II, Université de Paris XII, Université de Nantes, Université de Strasbourg III, Université de Lyon 2, University of Victoria, University of San Diego, and Monash University. A member of the Bar of Quebec since 1985, she has been a member of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board from 1995 till 2000.
Copyright law is her field of specialisation and her publications in this area are numerous: The Retransmission Right : Copyright and the Rediffusion of Works by Cable (Oxford, ESC Publishing Ltd, 1990); La protection des photographies en droit d’auteur français, américain, britannique, et canadien (Paris, L.G.D.J., 1994). In collaboration with her colleague Ejan Mackaay, she is responsible for the annual edition of Législation canadienne en propriété intellectuelle / Canadian Legislation on Intellectual Property published by Carswell. Her articles appear in Canadian and foreign journals and she is the Canadian contributor to Paul Geller’s International Copyright Law and Practice.
In addition to being member of several intellectual property organisations like the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC), she was President of the Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) in 2003-2005 and is currently the President of the Canadian group of the Association littéraire et artistique internationale (ALAI). She is also an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law.
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