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In Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association et al. v. Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), 2008 FCA 6, the Federal Court of Appeal confirmed a decision of the Copyright Board of Canada that Internet transmissions of musical ringtones by wireless telephone and other Internet ringtone suppliers constitute “communications of musical works to the public” within the meaning of section 3(1)(f) of the Copyright Act
Over 10 years after it was initially filed, the lawsuit launched by David Wall of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, against Horn Abbott Limited and Christopher Haney, the marketers of the Trivial Pursuit game, has come to an end
Advertising law in Canada encapsulates a multitude of legal issues and is governed by federal and provincial laws as well as self-regulatory codes, policies and bodies
In the case of Sun Media Corporation v. The Canadian Union of Public Employees, 2007 QCCS 2943, the Québec Superior Court delivered, on June 14, 2007, an interlocutory injunction enjoining unions from using the media company's logo (a red rectangle including in white the words "le journal de québec" followed by a yellow "N1") on protest signs during a lock-out
In Robertson v. Thomson Corp., 2006 SCC 43, the Supreme Court of Canada, in a 5-4 majority decision, has determined that newspaper publishers are not necessarily legally entitled to republish in electronic databases freelance articles acquired for publication in the original newspapers
