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

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 27 2013

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

Cloud computing provider faces potential seizure order in Ontario

  • Davis LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 7 2013

An interesting case is unfolding in Ontario where Megaupload Ltd. (a cloud storage provider) and Equinix Inc. are facing potential seizure orders for

Social media law (part 2: Twitter & copyright)

  • Field Law LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • February 14 2013

Here is the next case that illustrates the potential pitfalls when dealing with social media: This recent US copyright decision involving Agence

CIPPIC granted adjournment in the 2012 Voltage Pictures v Does P2P file sharing case

  • anticIPate Law
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 18 2013

Voltage Pictures' motion against Teksavvy was heard on January 14th, 2013, at Federal Court in Toronto. In the motion, Voltage had asked that

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

The Copyright Modernization Act: Canada’s new rights and rules

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • November 8 2012

Following years of attention and debate over issues such as “digital locks”, “users’ rights” and whether and how Canada is keeping up with other countries in protecting copyright, Canada’s Copyright Modernization Act (the “CMA”) entered into force on November 7, 2012

Posting and linking on public websites: guidance on what will (and will not) infringe

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • August 8 2012

Free Dominion is an online political discussion forum of a conservative cast, operated by Mark and Constance Fournier

Copyright round-up international developments

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • Canada, New Zealand, USA
  • -
  • August 7 2012

The public profile of copyright has never been as high as it is now mainly as a result of high-profile public campaigns around the section 92A "three strikes" regime and opposing ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

Providing permanent copies of works to consumers by online downloading services is not “communicating” works to the public by telecommunication: Entertainment Software Association v. SOCAN (2012 SCC 34)

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • July 31 2012

Consumers can purchase video games by downloading them online

Fair dealing exemption broadly interpreted by SCC to cover the “research” of streamed music previews

  • SIM. IP Practice
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • July 25 2012

Streamed music previews communicated over the internet are excluded from works for which royalties are payable to composers, authors, music publishers and administrators in respect of performance and communication rights

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