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Supreme Court of Canada on Copyright: “Copyright Law Does Not Exist Solely for the Benefit of Authors”

Michael Geist

For much of the past two decades, copyright groups have steadfastly sought to deny what the Supreme Court of Canada has repeatedly endorsed, namely that the purpose of Canadian copyright law is to serve the public interest by balancing users’ and authors’ rights. ” The decision – SOCAN v. 339, at para.

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Donald C. Brace Memorial Lecture by Professor David Vaver – “User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond”

IPilogue

Professor Vaver spoke on the origins of fair dealing in Canada and its differences and similarities in comparison to the American legal concept of “fair use”, its evolution throughout the history of Canadian common law jurisprudence, and its potentially far-reaching future beyond Canada and copyright law. .

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Exploring the Various Facets of Copyrights in Digital Spaces

IP and Legal Filings

Technology and copyright law. Copyright laws play a crucial role in protecting creative expressions such as literary works, artistic works and musical works. Through copyright enforcement, an exclusive right is granted to creators. International efforts to curb copyright infringement in the digital space.

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Proposed Freedom to Repair Act Seems Unlikely to Make Streaming Piracy Worse

TorrentFreak

When enacting these provisions, Congress understood that technological protection measures would support new ways of distributing copyrighted materials. For many copyright law is a mere inconvenience, text on a page to be shrugged at, if read at all. Right To Repair Would Not Increase Streaming Piracy.

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The next chapter in the “Metall auf Metall” saga – Pastiche to be clarified by the CJEU

Kluwer Copyright Blog

20 years later, Pelham composed (together with a second defendant), produced and released the hip-hop rap song “Nur mir”, which is underlain by a continuous loop of a two-second rhythmic sequence of metallic drum sounds that had been electronically copied from the “Metall auf Metall” phonogram. 5 InfoSoc Directive. 5 InfoSoc Directive.

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Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on IPR – a Regressive View

SpicyIP

In the context of the current pandemic and the constrained means to access educational material, this should have ideally translated into more proactive and robust measures to reform copyright law such that it does not attenuate the enjoyment of the right to education. “In State of Karnataka and Ors. and State of HP v.

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The Great Escape: Rapidshare's managers avoid criminal sanctions in Switzerland

The IPKat

From former Guest Kat Peter Ling comes an interesting report on that most rare of copyright cases, a criminal complaint based on infringement. Rapidshare was an online file hosting service that operated between 2002 and 2015. Creating a download link and providing it to the Uploader is not relevant under copyright law.