Organizations representing Canada’s creative industries are calling on MPs to add copyright provisions to Bill C-27, in order to protect creators’ content, likeness, and...
The federal government is seeking public input on generative artificial intelligence (AI) and its implications for copyright law. The consultation will look at the use of copyright-protected works in the training of AI systems; authorship and ownership rights; and liability....
Arguments began Thursday in a Federal Court case that would see pirated...
Canada’s Online News Act could serve as a template for countries around...
Canadian broadcasting executives, from companies...
The Supreme Court of Canada says Canada’s Copyright Act “does not exist...
The Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is suing Quebecor Inc. for $1.44 million the group says it is owed in unpaid royalties for three months in 2018. In a statement of claim filed in Federal Court on July 5, SOCAN argued that Quebecor's Vidéotron improperly withheld the royalty money for five months in 2018 in violation of an agreement signed that year between SOCAN and the broadcaster. According to SOCAN's claim, Vidéotron withheld the money because the broadcaster said it...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez is...
A Conservative MP who was outspoken on the revised Broadcasting Act, Bill...
A test-case for Canada's first-ever "dynamic" site-blocking order is headed...
BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., and Quebecor Inc. have turned to...
OTTAWA -- MP Pablo Rodriguez is back in familiar territory as he is once...
A trio of Canada's biggest broadcasters has asked the Federal Court for a...
A federal court judge has fined a pre-loaded set top box seller $40,000 for being in contempt of an...
A federal appeal court judge has revived a proposed reverse class-action...
A Federal Court judge ordered three pirate TV services to pay more than $29 million in damages to major broadcasters which claimed the sellers were cutting into their business...
The Federal Court of Appeal ruled Friday partially in favour of a group...
With Parliament rising this week for its summer break, a number of bills of interest to the broadcasting...
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is opposing internet...
An Alberta judge shot down a request from Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc. for an injunction against Best Buy Canada Ltd., Staples Canada ULC, Canada Computers Inc., and London Drugs Limited as part of...
The Supreme Court of Canada has decided it will hear an appeal from Music Canada and the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN). SOCAN and Music Canada, which represents Sony Music Entertainment Canada, Universal Music Canada, and Warner...
The federal government has launched a consultation document to solicit feedback on whether or not it...
Is a Nov. 2019 court order mandating a number of...
The federal government has appointed Federal Court judge Luc Martineau as...
A small Ontario telecommunications provider has told Federal Court it should be able to continue to market its wireless home internet service as “WiFibe,” urging it to deny a trademark injunction...
BCE Inc. has asked a Federal Court of Appeal judge to throw out an appeal of Canada's first ever site-blocking court order, saying that TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s appeal of the order is grounded in...
BCE Inc. has asked Federal Court to order a small Ontario telecom to stop using the name “WiFIBE” for its wireless fibre internet service. Bell argued in a claim filed Monday that SkyChoice...
In a closely-watched appeal of Canada's first-ever site-blocking court...
The Copyright Board was wrong in extending the making available right to downloads in 2017, the Federal Court of Appeal has ruled. The court said the board, in making that decision, “went to...
Music Canada CEO Graham Henderson will step down from the role he’s held for more than 15 years, the organization announced in a Thursday press release. In the statement, Henderson said working at Music Canada had been a “great honour and privilege.” “I have absolutely every confidence that the staff, the Board and everyone at Sony, Universal and Warner will go forward from strength to strength. I hope that my experience and insight may be of some value down the road,” Henderson said. Board chairperson Jennifer Sloan thanked Henderson for guiding the trade organization...
After dropping its lawsuit in Federal Court against four retailers whose employees it accused of recommending pirating content from media boxes sold in stores -- and subsequently launching a similar...
A Federal Court proceeding between Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron and Rovi Guides Inc. that was halted in early March as the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns began, will resume via Zoom, over the objections of...
A consortium of rights holders — including the top tier of English soccer, the Premier League, sports streaming service Dazn and industry trade groups for book publishers — wants the Federal Court of Appeal to uphold...
Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc.’s Super Channel has dropped its Federal Court lawsuit against four major retailers, whose employees allegedly recommended pirating content from media boxes sold in the store, only to launch...
Court mandated website-blocking is an "extraordinary" remedy and should only be granted sparingly, according to a court filing from the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association. The BCCLA has told the Federal Court of Appeal that if it is granted leave to intervene in TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s appeal of a Federal Court judge's site-blocking order, it will seek to underline the freedom of speech implications of the remedy. "The protection of freedom of expression enshrined in the [Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms] and elsewhere in Canadian law counsels caution in the...
As part of their ongoing effort to fight content piracy, two of Canada’s largest media and telecom...
Fresh documents are shedding light on how Canada’s first piracy case...
A recent Federal Court order for two internet service providers to disclose the personal information of alleged copyright infringers diverged from previous precedent by expanding the type of...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron will argue in Federal Court later this month...
Internet service provider TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has appealed a Federal Court order requiring ISPs to...
Voltage Pictures LLC and Rogers Communications Inc. have both agreed to drop their appeal and cross-appeal, respectively, against a decision by the Federal Court to award the telecom costs to dig up personal information of alleged...
An Alberta court has sided with Corus Entertainment Inc. in banning the use...
In a precedent-setting decision, a Federal Court judge has ordered internet...
The movie studio that has for years sought to sue alleged copyright infringers in Canada has been denied by the Federal Court the ability to sue thousands of Canadians at...
The country’s largest TV service providers are appealing an increase in the over-the-air distant signal...
Six years after first filing suit alleging BCE Inc. infringed on its patent...
BCE Inc., Quebecor Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. are arguing in...
Even if the large telecoms satisfy the court’s threshold to move forward with forcing internet service...
In asking the Federal Court to deny certifying a class of defendants in a copyright infringement case, an advocacy group is arguing that an IP address is insufficient in proving an individual has committed infringing activity -- a point that has proved successful in United States courts. The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic said in one of several arguments submitted to the court this month that plaintiff and movie producer Voltage Pictures LLC has not made a direct link...
In the event Federal Court allows a site-blocking application brought by...
OTTAWA — On the second and final day of a potentially precedent-setting court hearing on site-blocking, a Federal Court judge gave the parties until Wednesday to negotiate a revised draft site...
Counsel to Voltage Pictures LLC and a number of movie studios is asking the Federal Court of Appeal to review a case that found Rogers Communications Inc. is owed $67.23 to disclose the personal...
Shueisha Inc., a Japanese publisher of comic books, has filed an...
The Federal Court is setting at $35 the hourly rate that Rogers...
OTTAWA — A Federal Court judge has granted an interim ban on what the big telecom companies are...
Three of the nation’s largest broadcasters are suing the owners of a service that is allegedly selling...
Music Canada, the trade organization which represents the Canadian divisions of some of the world’s largest record labels, has declared that the gap between what artists create and what they are...
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal request by MediaTube Corp. to present new evidence in a six-year-old patent infringement case brought against BCE Inc. Judge David Stratus agreed with Bell’s argument that the fresh new evidence MediaTube was hoping to present was “already apparent” in the record before the court and MediaTube could’ve investigated the issue during the previous proceedings. Stratus dismissed MediaTube’s submission following oral arguments on Tuesday. At most, Bell said, the supposedly new evidence would have only supplemented the...
The House industry committee is asking the Heritage committee to study...
An organization representing sound recording rights holders wants to...
Nicholas McHaffie, who served as counsel to TekSavvy Solutions Inc. in its long-running legal saga against movie studios looking to get the personal information of Canadians in copyright cases, has been appointed to the Federal...
While the Canadian music industry aims to address revenue shortfalls in the...
Key evidence relied upon by movie studios in a substantial chunk of copyright infringement cases that have yielded vast sums of money from settlements has been ruled insufficient by a Federal Court judge who reversed a disclosure order on Thursday. TekSavvy Solutions Inc. challenged the disclosure orders brought by three movie studios against 13 internet service providers in November 2017. The Chatham-based ISP said the studios provided evidence to the court that was made up of unsworn...
Music in public establishments such as malls, bars and restaurants should...
The Federal Court has set a spring date to determine how much Voltage Pictures LLC must pay Rogers Communications Inc. to hand over personal subscriber information after the Supreme Court found the telecom was entitled to...
BCE Inc. urged the federal government to make virtual private networks (VPNs) used to circumvent...
A regional internet registry is going to walk-back a controversial request...
The organization responsible for allocating IP numbers to intermediaries in...
OTTAWA — The Copyright Board will work to address long-standing criticism over how long it takes to issue decisions, including by implementing new regulations, CEO Nathalie Théberge told members of the House industry committee....
OTTAWA — The Canadian Bar Association told MPs Monday Parliament should introduce a new regime to deal with online piracy in the Copyright Act because the current notice-and-notice regime is...
OTTAWA — Alphabet Inc.’s Google wants members of Parliament to include...
An expert in copyright law is asking senators to nix a reform measure in the Liberal government’s latest budget implementation bill that allows the federal cabinet to set...
The federal government paid a $2,000 settlement to a Barrie, Ontario photographer, according to the 2018 public accounts, because bureaucrats shared a copyrighted image on a government Facebook page....
A reverse class action case that has been stalled for nearly two years over the issue of costs will now move forward, after plaintiff Voltage Pictures LLC put up $75,000 in security for defence costs. Voltage paid the amount...
The federal government has named two new members to the Copyright Board of Canada, a move that fills the last vacancies on the board and comes alongside Ottawa introducing new board reform measures....
OTTAWA — Consumer advocacy groups are cautioning MPs against proposals that would make site-blocking in Canada easier, after a push for those anti-piracy policies failed at the CRTC failed last...
OTTAWA -- BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. are asking the House heritage committee to amend parts of the copyright and telecommunications acts to compel a number of intermediaries to take down websites that make available pirated content, resurrecting a request the companies spearheaded that was denied by the CRTC earlier this month. Tuesday’s recommendation is not new, as it was raised in front of the House of Commons industry committee in late September. However, earlier this month, the CRTC rejected the FairPlay Canada application that sought to impose a website-blocking system...
OTTAWA — Alphabet Inc.’s Google wants to see the Copyright Board of Canada tariff setting process...
Nearly a dozen content producers have obtained a court order banning set-top box software developed by an individual in Canada that allows users to watch their content for free, according to court...
Internet traffic is “more encrypted than ever,” with a “conservative estimate” suggesting more than half of all internet traffic is encrypted, according to Sandvine Corp.’s 2018 Global...
The CRTC has no jurisdiction to implement a system to block websites...
OTTAWA -- Fraudulent copyright infringement claims made through Canada’s...
The new trade pact forged by Canada, the U.S. and Mexico to replace the...
Some of the battles taking place before the CRTC related to site-blocking...
OTTAWA — Canada’s private broadcasters are defending Canada’s existing copyright laws and tariff...
OTTAWA -- Canadian rock legend Bryan Adams is asking Canadian lawmakers to change the Copyright Act so it gives artists more control over their copyright. Adams told reporters on Parliament Hill Tuesday that he had approached two prime ministers – Stephen Harper and...
OTTAWA --- In a decision that could serve as a deterrent to copyright...
The European Parliament passed its copyright directive Wednesday, with some amendments to the...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters registered to lobby the federal government on its review of the Copyright Act in July, which was otherwise a sleepy month in telecom and media government...
More than a dozen movie studios have sued Canadians in recent months in a...
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) will not hear an appeal from an American movie studio challenging a Canadian court’s decision forcing it to pay court costs upfront for a defendant it is looking to sue for copyright infringement. Early last year, a federal court judge ordered Voltage Pictures LLC to put up $75,000 in a court account to cover the costs of defendant and Rogers Communications Inc. subscriber Robert Salna, who was accused by the studio of illegally downloading its content. The Federal Court of Appeal then denied Voltage’s appeal, and on Thursday, the country’s...
The Quebec Superior Court has ruled against a plan by the Quebec government...
One in eight Canadians have watched pirated TV or movie content online in...
A European Union committee has approved a controversial copyright directive that critics say could interfere with the sharing of online content. At issue are two articles under the directive. The...
The House industry committee heard some familiar suggestions from a number...
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) asked a parliamentary committee...
The popularity of fully-loaded set-top boxes, such as Kodi devices, is illustrative of an attitude of indifference toward piracy, the House of Commons industry committee heard Thursday. There is no...
A government-commissioned report is shedding light on the extent of...
The ongoing review of the Copyright Act will begin focusing on the music, radio, television and film sectors next month. The House of Commons industry committee has heard from 100 stakeholders since the review began in...
The FairPlay coalition has responded to the laundry list of criticism directed toward its proposal to implement a website-blocking regime to fight piracy, arguing, among other...