Fair Use/Fair Dealing
Room Full of Spoons: The Contributions of Wiseau Studio v Harper to Canadian Entertainment Law
Lessons from the Drake-Jimmy Smith copyright dispute: Applying the US’s fair use summary procedures to Canadian fair dealing
Recent Items of Interest from Around the Internet
A round-up of interesting items from around the internet: from Martin Senftleben, a draft Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Interpretation […]
Warman v Fournier: Infringement Assessed
The recent Federal Court of Canada decsion in Warman v Fournier (2012 FC 803 – for reasons which elude me, […]
Parody and Fair Dealing As It Is and May Be
The federal government has announced that it will be re-introducing Bill C-32 (The Copyright Modernization Act), which would have added “parody” as […]
AUCSM Fair Use Guidelines for Poetry
The American University Center for Social Media has published its Code of Best Practices in Fair Use in Poetry. While the […]
Canadian Copyright and Campaigns
The CBC is reporting about another copyright flare-up involving Canadian political parties: The federal Conservatives are rejecting a demand by the […]
DOC Fair Dealing Roadshow
The Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC) is hosting a National Fair Dealing Roadshow. Next Thursday, January 27, 2011, the Roadshow […]
Previews of Music as Fair Dealing (Threedux)
A further development (see our earlier posts on the topic: Previews of Music as Fair Dealing and Previews of Music […]
Previews of Music as Fair Dealing (Redux)
Further to this earlier post about the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision in Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers […]
DOC Releases Guidelines for Documentary Filmmakers
The Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC) has announced the release of its Guidelines to Fair Dealing Practices for Documentary Filmmakers. […]