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Record W330066483

Demerara Sugar: A Bitter Pill to Swallow?

2011· article· en· W330066483 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIntellectual Property Law
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTrademarkLawPolitical scienceInternational lawGeography
DOInot available

Abstract

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At first glance, the recent Canadian litigation over the right to use ‘Demerara sugar’ plays out as a defamation dispute. The Guyanese Minister for Agriculture had complained that the use of ‘Demerara sugar’ by an importer on sugar from Mauritius was misleading, since Demerara took its name from the eponymous Guyanese province. The importer took exception to allegations of misleading use, characterising them as libellous. In these circumstances, the central issue before the trial and appellate courts concerned the existence of a sovereign immunity defence to libel claims. Yet despite being framed by libel law, this dispute represents the surface of deeper crosscurrents relating to international Geographical Indications protection, since the Ministers objections rested on the assumption that ‘Demerara sugar’ should be reserved for Guyanese producers. Unpacking this dispute reveals traces of the two most controversial issues in international GI law today: (1) a conflict between trademarks and GIs, as well as (2) the generic use of a formerly geographical designation. The Demerara sugar litigation therefore provides us with an instructive case study of an attempt to integrate GI protection within a trademark law paradigm, while also highlighting the important qualifications and limitations of this approach.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.638
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.039
GPT teacher head0.274
Teacher spread0.235 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it