Canada a country in copyright transition says US Congressional anti-piracy...
Last week, The US Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus published its 2012 International Anti-Piracy Caucus Country Watch List. Canada, which had previously been on the watch list, has now...
View ArticleEven more on Access Copyright and the Supreme Court: eviscerated or not?
My mother warned me to be suspicious when people give gratuitous compliments. So, I read with some suspicion the recent blog post by Ariel Katz, who responded to my post Did the Supreme Court...
View ArticleCopyright Modernization Act soon to be law in Canada
The Privy Council has released a copy of notice dated October 25, 2012 (P.C. 2012-1392) setting out when the amendments to the Copyright Act will come into force. The information in the notice, which...
View ArticleChange and the Copyright Modernization Act
Bill C-11, the Copyright Modernization Act, with a few exceptions, is now law with the publication of the Governor General Order in Council. The fourth attempt to amend the Copyright Act since 2005...
View ArticleCopyright Board to construe the making available right
In the ESA v. SOCAN, 2012 SCC 34 case, the Supreme Court decided by a 5 to 4 majority that the transmission of a copy of a musical work to members of the public is not a communication to the public...
View ArticlePrivate copying levy on death row
The Copyright Board of Canada rendered its decision on Friday with regards to the Tariff of Levies to Be Collected by CPCC in 2012, 2013 and 2014 on the sale of Blank Audio Recording Media. The...
View ArticleNotice and notice regime under C-11 coming into force
The Government announced today that the notice and notice regime established under C-11 is coming into force in January 2015. The delay in bringing these provisions into force was a consultations on...
View ArticleBy-passing paywall and circumventing TPM sinks fair dealing defense:...
Does by-passing a subscription paywall to access a news article violate the new prohibitions in the Copyright Act that make it an infringement to circumvent a technological protection measure (TPM)?...
View ArticleFix the value gap – a reply to Michael Geist
Here is an Op-ed of mine that ran earlier today in the Hill Times. The post below includes endnotes not in that article. In his Hill Times Op-ed (Canadian copyright reform requires a fix on the fair...
View ArticleTop legal developments in e-commerce, privacy and intellectual property
Despite COVID-19, 2020 was an eventful year, chock full of impactful legal developments in e-commerce, technology, privacy, anti-spam, and intellectual property law. Here is a summary of my picks for...
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