Canadian Copyright: A Citizen's Guide
CAUT Bulletin
Laura Murray is an Associate Professor in the English Department of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and creator of the website www.faircopyright.ca .
Samuel Trosow is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. He is jointly appointed in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies
Recent Decisions
Federal Court of AppealAlberta (Education) v. Access Copyright pdf ) US Federal Court of Appeals MGE UPS Systems Inc. v. GE Consumer and Industrial Inc . Supreme Court of CanadaOntario (Public Safety and Security) v. Criminal Lawyers’ Association Federal Court of AppealSOCAN v Bell Canada (May 27, 2010)Application for Leave filed Aug. 13, 2010) Copyright Board
Repographic Reproductons (Educational Institutions)
Reasons
BC Supreme CourtCanwest Mediaworks v Horizon Publications US Federal District CourtViacom v YouTube (July 2, 2008)Commentary US Federal District CourtA.V. v IParadigms (March 11, 2008)Commentary ) Copyright Board
Reproduction of Sound Recordings by Commercial Radio Stations
Reasons
Commentary (Howard Knopf )
WTO (WT/DS285/ARB , Dec. 21, 2007),
Press (NY Times , Register ),
Commentary (William Patry , Howard Knopf )
Copyright Board
SOCAN Tariff 22.A (1996-2006)
Internet - Online Music Services
Reasons
Copyright Board
Private Copying 2008-2009
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Access Copyright has issued a new response to critics of its proposed post-secondary education tariff. Five Fast Facts on Access Copyright 's Post-Secondary Tariff Application is a classic
Friday, 20 August 2010
...ff dispute with online music service providers. Earlier this year, the FCA upheld a decision of the Copyright Board holding that the provision of 30 second previews of songs which could be pu...
Friday, 13 August 2010
Yesterday marked the deadline for submission of objections to the proposed Access Copyright Tariff and a number of filings are anticipated. The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAU
Thursday, 12 August 2010
... sponsored by the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at UWO, entitled "Bill C-32 and the Access Copyright Tariff: Double Trouble for Educators and Students." The overhead presentat...
Tuesday, 03 August 2010
The Access Copyright Post-Secondary Educational Institution Tariff has been published in the Canada Gazette, thereby commencing the 60 day comment period which will run until August 11th. &nbs
Sunday, 20 June 2010
Here are some early reactions to Bill C-32, the Copyright Modernization Act . . . Appropriation Art Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) Business Coa
Friday, 04 June 2010
...on and contains several other articles on various aspects of information policyincluding network neutrality, copyright and open access. Unfortunately, the articles are not yet linked from the ...
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
...1, Focus on Intellectual Property section) . . . Parliament will likely deal again with the issue of copyright reform. A major issue emerging from last year's government consultations on t...
Sunday, 14 March 2010
I will be giving several talks on copyright issues in the next few weeks in London, Calgary and Toronto: London: Sunday, October 18th, 3pm UWO, North Campus Bldg, Room 114 The copyrigh
Monday, 05 October 2009
Here is my submission in pdf .
Sunday, 13 September 2009
As the government's Copyright Consultations enters the home stretch, you still have time to make your voice heard. The submission period will run until Sunday September 13th. Su
Friday, 11 September 2009
...Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) has issued a Call for Action on the current Copyright consultation. The Federation is urging its member associations and institu...
Saturday, 15 August 2009
Copyright news from the United States has not been good lately. Between the file-sharing lawsuits, the appointments of RIAA lawyers to key government positions and the continuation of failed policies
Sunday, 09 August 2009
...Bezos certainly did the right thing by issuing an apology. As Howard Knopf said in a recent posting on excesscopyright "such a quick and unequivocal apology is to be commended. (lessons here to ...
Friday, 24 July 2009
...hrown them into an incinerator. It was also an undue invasion of privacy and an example of excessive copyright enforcement enabled by technological measures. The fact that the works in questio...
Saturday, 18 July 2009
The Copyright Board of Canada has released its long awaited decision in the tariff dispute surrounding reproductions in primary and secondary educational institutions. First filed in Mar
Friday, 26 June 2009
...y works take their place in the ultimate destination for all works which were previously under the temporary copyright monopoly. Wallace McLean has continued his Public Domain Day tradition by p...
Friday, 02 January 2009
.../IP-Advisory3-fr.pdf This advisory is significant because it combines both the internals and externals of copyright policy-making; it links together the federal legislative agenda with policy-makin...
Wednesday, 17 December 2008
The Canadian Library Association has released a detailed briefing paper on Bill C-61 entitled Unlocking the Public Interest. Noting that the Bill has died on the order paper with the dissolutio
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
I will be giving a talk on Copyright and Bill C-61 in Tillsonburg: Wednesday, July 16th at 7pm Station Arts Centre (41 Bridge Street West) &n
Tuesday, 08 July 2008
...they would be happy to take the bill as-is. For their part, CMEC titled their June 13th release CMEC Copyright Consortium pleased with new federal copyright legislation. They lead with the con...
Sunday, 29 June 2008
...s worth noting. From the media: Ivor Tosell’s article in Thursday’s Globe and Mail Copyright Cock-up Globe and Mail’s Q&A with Jeremy DeBeer Vancouver Sun editori...
Friday, 20 June 2008
Yesterday the federal government tabled Bill-61, an Act to Amend the Copyright Act (contents, full text html, full text pdf, "fact sheets"). The pdf version is over 50 pages and lik
Friday, 13 June 2008
Despite a number of false starts, it appears as if the government will finally table its Copyright Bill tomorrow, Thursday June 12th. According to a government press release issued today, there w
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
... giving giving a presentation entitled "Constraining the Flow of Knowledge in Post-Secondary Education: Copyright as Impediment to Teaching, Learning and Research" at the University of Toron...
Tuesday, 03 June 2008
Speculation is heating up that we may see the long awaited Copyright Bill as early as this week. The National Post and Michael Geist have written that the government may table the
Tuesday, 03 June 2008
...n report that a group of publishers have filed a lawsuit against officials at Georgia State University for copyright infringement. The suit which was filed by Cambridge University Press...
Friday, 18 April 2008
CMEC has released the 5th installment in its ongoing Copyright Bulletin. Entitled Educational Use of the Internet: Is there an Implied License?, this entry stresses the need for gr
Tuesday, 01 April 2008
I had the chance to attend the Access Copyright Annual General Meeting earlier this month in Toronto, and I will offer some reflections while they are fresh in my mind. I found there w
Saturday, 29 March 2008
...on system turnitin. The action was brought by high school students against iParadigms alleging copyright infringement. In its 24 page ruling, the court upheld a waiver of liability claus...
Saturday, 29 March 2008
I am an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario jointly appointed to the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS).
Before coming to Western, I was a law librarian at the Boalt Hall Law Library at the University of California at Berkeley and before that I was in private law practice in California. My doctoral work in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA focused on information policy issues.
I am currently a Network Investigator and Theme Leader with the GRAND NCE , am a member of the FIMS Digital Labour group and also serve on the Canadian Association of University Teachers' Librarians Committee , and the Canadian Library Association's Copyright Working Group and Intellectual Freedom Advisory Committee .
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