DC Court of Appeal denies copyright to Thaler’s Creativity Machine
The United States Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit affirmed the decision of the District Court for District of Columbia...Read More
False IP complainants get shrunken bank accounts
Keezio Group and The Shrunks’ Family Toy Company were market competitors who sold inflatable beds for children through Amazon.com. Keezio brought a...Read More
SLAPP’ed Back to Court for Letting the Links Out
The British Columbia Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal by Mr. Linkletter of his “anti-SLAAP” application to dismiss the proceedings against him...Read More
BC Civil Resolution Tribunal Restates the Ingredients of a Binding Settlement Agreement
Background In the underlying dispute, Ehsan Haji Mahdizadeh Zargar alleged that the City of Vancouver infringed his copyright in 2 photographs by...Read More
Copyright Style Tips from the USSC: Knowledge is the New Colour
Suppose that John, seeing a flash of red in a tree, says, “There is a cardinal.” But he is wrong. The bird...Read More
Opting Out: Copyright Board Tariffs are not Mandatory
The Federal Court of Appeal’s decision in York University v. The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright) is a lengthy judgment with important...Read More
Anticipated Appeals Cannot Be United
In Cooperstock v. United Airlines, Inc., the Court of Appeal held that an appeal can be stayed or consolidated with related appeals...Read More
Wesley Gets Crushed: Alleged Copyright Pirate Found Guilty of Contempt of Court
The Federal Court recently held an individual guilty of contempt of court for disobeying an interlocutory injunction prohibiting the sale of pre-loaded...Read More
Court Dismisses Career College Copyright Case As Time Barred
In 907687 Ontario Inc. (c.o.b. International Institute of Travel) v. Shokour, 2017 FC 969, the Federal Court found that the plaintiff did...Read More
What Do You Really Get When You Acquire Copyrighted Materials Through Foreclosure?
AAAI is an architecture firm that developed plans for a building project called “Murray’s Walk” for MWDL. In April 2009, AAAI filed...Read More
Microsoft Enforces Software Copyright Against Recidivist Copier: Microsoft v. Liu
In Microsoft v Liu, Justice Boswell of the Federal Court determined that Mr. Liu had infringed Microsoft’s copyright in several programs and...Read More
Pre-Loaded Prevention: Interlocutory Injunction Restrains Sale of Television Plug-and-Play Boxes
There is an emerging phenomenon in the Canadian market of pre-loaded “plug-and-play” set-top. The boxes have several legal uses, such as effectively...Read More
Crown’s ownership of copyright sinks land surveyor’s class action
The Superior Court of Justice has dismissed a long-running class action by Ontario’s land surveyors against Teranet, the private company that manages...Read More
Federal Court cannot by its own motion punt copyright claim to more convenient forum
In Sadhu Singh Hamdard Trust v Navsun Holdings Ltd, 2014 FC 1139, the Federal Court dismissed the plaintiff’s claims of copyright and...Read More
Large security for costs upheld in Alberta multi-defendant copyright action
In Geophysical Service Incorporated v Encana Corporation, Justice Strekaf of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta heard an appeal by GSI...Read More
Statutory, but not punitive, damages for copyright infringement
Rundle provided training services to assist federal government employees in passing various language proficiency tests for bilingual positions in the federal public...Read More