Videotron’s copyright notices contradictory: Geist
Media | 01/14/2015 7:53 pm EST
Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron has been sending out copyright-infringement notices to customers, as directed by federal government's new notice-and-notice copyright requirements, that falsely tell users that the rights holder that has alleged a breach cannot be identified, University of Ottawa professor Michael Geist said on his website on Wednesday.
Geist, the university's research chair in Internet and e-commerce law, on Wednesday published what he said was the text from a notice Videotron had sent one of his readers.
Below a section that listed Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. as the complainant and included its phone number and address, the notice said: "Because of privacy concerns, we cannot give any information regarding the plaintiff, as we do not provide any
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