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When a cease & desist letter backfires

  • Stewart McKelvey
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  • Canada, USA
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  • May 12 2013

Often when a work of art or a logo is appropriated by a rogue for an ulterior purpose, the owner of the intellectual property wants to exercise their

Checklist: reviewing stock library content licenses

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 8 2013

When a film or television producer wants to make use of content supplied by a "stock" library (such as photographs, film clips or music), it is

The Copyright Modernization Act: aligning Canadian copyright laws with the realities of the digital economy

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
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  • Canada
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  • March 27 2013

Rapid advances in the digital economy have shifted how consumers interact with copyrighted content. Many jurisdictions have amended their laws to

Potted Potter and the possibility of parody

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
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  • Canada
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  • February 15 2012

The news that the stage play Potted Potter has come to Toronto should be something which causes the ears of copyright lawyers (and others interested in copyright law) to perk up

What you need to know about Access Copyright

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • April 29 2013

Recent changes in the fair dealing exception under Canadian copyright have caused certain Canadian educational institutions to question the value of

Parody defence not far far away

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • May 22 2012

The good folks at the Lawyers Weekly have published a short commentary of mine on the imminent introduction into Canadian copyright law of a parody and satire defence: Parody defence not far far away

Canada

  • Kestenberg Siegal Lipkus LLP
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  • Canada
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  • April 23 2013

Combating counterfeiting in Canada involves the following legislation: the Trademarks Act (RSC 1985, c T-13); the Copyright Act (RSC 1985, c C-42, as

It was bound to happen: file sharing lawsuits have returned to Canada (Voltage Pictures, 2011 FC 1024)

  • anticIPate Law
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • December 13 2012

More than five years ago, BMG Canada Inc. and a number of other music companies (“BMG”) took a run at file sharers in Canada and received a chilly reception for their trouble

UK Supreme Court decides it’s okay to look

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada, European Union, United Kingdom
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  • April 19 2013

Is there a difference between having a collection of headlines assembled in a report and sent to you by email versus viewing that same report on a

Default judgment not set aside due to defendant's misrepresentations

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
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  • August 20 2012

The Defendants in this action brought a motion seeking a declaration that the default judgment should not be enforced against them, or, alternatively should be set aside