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US anti-circumvention rulemaking, documentary films and Canadian copyright

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • August 3 2010

Last week's promulgation by the United States' Librarian of Congress of a rule which creates an exemption for certain classes of works from the prohibition (in the US Copyright Act, first introduced by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA) against circumventing technological measures that control access to copyrighted works - which is rather a mouthful (or eyeful) - is noteworthy for a number of reasons which are of immediate relevance to Canadian entertainment lawyers and copyright enthusiasts

Canada's new Copyright Bill and consumer rights - what's the fuss?

  • WeirFoulds LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • July 29 2010

CDs, DVDs, HDTVs, digital media players, smartphones, ringtones, and file-sharing technologies expand a consumer's ability to obtain, store and enjoy music, movies and television shows

Internet previews of music can be fair dealing under copyright

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • August 11 2010

The Federal Court of Appeal recently released an important ruling on the scope of the fair-dealing exception, in a judicial review of the Copyright Board’s decision on SOCAN Tariff 22.A

Modernizing Canadian copyright laws federal government introduces new copyright bill

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • August 11 2010

At long last, the Canadian government has introduced its proposed copyright amendments

Bratz and Baby Buddies - clarifying the ideaexpression dichotomy

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • August 10 2010

The ideaexpression dichotomy is fundamental to copyright law, and can be stated with relative ease

Previews of music as fair dealing (Threedux)

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • August 13 2010

A further development in the SOCAN v Bell Canada, et al case - where the Federal Court of Appeal recently held that "previews" of songs offered by online music services constituted "fair dealing" for the purposes of research

Consumer rights in copyrighted works

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • October 28 2010

IP Osgoode has announced the winners of its 2010 IP Writing Challenge

ACTRA PRSMROC's commercial radio tariff proposal for 2011

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • July 21 2010

On June 19, 2010, the Copyright Board published the most recent tariff proposal of the ACTRA Performers' Rights Society ("ACTRA PRS") and the Musicians' Rights Organization Canada ("MROC") in the Canada Gazette

Changing trends in the enforcement of open source software

  • Bereskin & Parr LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • July 26 2010

Open source software has not historically generated much litigation

New amendments to the Copyright Act proposed

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • July 22 2010

On 2 June 2010, the Canadian Government introduced the Copyright Modernization Act (Bill C-32), which is a long anticipated copyright reform bill intended, among other things, to strengthen Canada's anti-piracy regime

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