Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP | Canada | 27 Jun 2022
On June 23, 2022, after years of consultation and debate, the Parliament of Canada passed legislation to extend the term of copyright protection in…
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP | Canada | 22 Apr 2015
As part of the proposed 2015 federal budget, tabled yesterday, the Canadian government announced that it intends to extend the term of copyright…
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP | Canada | 12 Dec 2014
Bill C-8, the Combating Counterfeit Products Act (the "CCPA"), received Royal Assent on December 9th, 2014. The CCPA creates new civil and criminal…
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP | Canada | 6 Nov 2012
On October 25, 2012, the Canadian government began the process of bringing Bill C-11, the Copyright Modernization Act, into force.
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP | Canada | 13 Jul 2012
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Canada issued much anticipated rulings on a series of cases concerning copyright royalties for downloading and streaming of various kinds of musical works over the Internet, classroom copying of literary and artistic works, and recorded music in soundtracks that accompany movies and TV shows.
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP | Canada | 10 Jul 2012
The amendment of the Canadian Copyright Act, which has been more than a decade in the making, has finally reached a decisive conclusion.
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP | Canada | 10 Jul 2012
After hearing a landmark series of five copyright cases in December 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada has recently granted leave to appeal in another four.
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP | Canada | 20 Jun 2012
Canada’s copyright reform process took a significant step forward this week as the House of Commons passed Bill C-11, An Act to Amend the Copyright Act (also referred to as the Copyright Modernization Act).
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP | Canada | 26 Apr 2012
With the report of the Legislative Committee on Bill C-11 (the “Bill”) to the House of Commons on March 15, 2012, it looks like the government’s much-debated Copyright Modernization Act is well on its way to becoming the law of Canada.
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP | Canada | 21 Oct 2011
On October 19th, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in Crookes v. Newton, unanimously upholding the British Columbia Court of Appeal decision that merely providing a hyperlink that connects to allegedly defamatory material will not itself be considered a publication of that material.