The Canadian Government announced today that it is amending the Copyright Act to extend the term of protection for performers and makers of sound recordings from its current term of 50 years to ...
The Canadian Government announced today that it is making amendments to the Copyright Act to enable Canada to accede to the Marrakesh Treaty and to extend the term of copyright protection for pe...
Ever have trouble figuring out what tariffs have been certified by the Copyright Board for the uses of copyright? If so, the new book entitled User’s Guide to Canadian Copyright Tariffs written...
https://barrysookman.com/2015/01/24/users-guide-to-canadian-copyright-tariffs/
As the creative industries continued to grow economically in importance in 2014, so have the stakes in copyright litigation. Increasingly, the courts have been challenged to resolve complex disp...
https://barrysookman.com/2015/01/02/copyright-2014-the-year-in-review/
On May 16, 2014 the Copyright Board released its decision certifying Re: Sound Tariff 8 setting royalty rates for webcasting services in Canada. Re:Sound promptly filed an application for judici...
https://barrysookman.com/2014/08/13/michael-geists-attack-on-artists-over-tariff-8/
In an important decision rendered on June 13, 2014, a Canadian court ordered Google to block a website that was selling goods that violated the trade secrets of the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs obt...
The Government announced today that the notice and notice regime established under C-11 is coming into force in January 2015. The delay in bringing these provisions into force was a consultation...
https://barrysookman.com/2014/06/17/notice-and-notice-regime-under-c-11-coming-into-force/
Earlier today, I gave my annual presentation to the Toronto Computer Lawyers’ Group on developments in Computer, Internet, and e-commerce Law. The slides cover the period from my last pres...
https://barrysookman.com/2014/06/05/developments-in-computer-internet-and-e-commerce-law-2013-2014/
I had the pleasure of being a panelist at the 2014 Annual Fordham Law and Policy IP Conference . My panel was on the topic of orphan works and mass digitization. My contribution was to provid...
https://barrysookman.com/2014/04/27/orphan-works-the-canadian-solution/
Yesterday, I gave a talk at the Law Society of Upper Canada’s 18h Annual Intellectual Property Law: The Year in Review program. My talk canvassed developments in copyright in Canada, the US an...