CBC v SODRAC Supreme Court of Canada decision expected Thursday, November 26, 2015 at 9:45 AM

The decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in CBC v SODRAC will be released Thursday Nov. 26, 2015 at 9:45 AM https://t.co/ZpeQwvRQMq

— Howard Knopf (@howardknopf) November 24, 2015

The decision will appear here at 9:45 AM or shortly thereafter. 

Here is the Court's unofficial summary of the issues:

Intellectual property law - Judicial review - Copyright - Licenses - Licensing societies - Royalties - Ephemeral copies - Application by broadcaster for review of licenses issued by Copyright Board allowed in part - Collective society imposing royalties on producers of content and broadcasters - Licences allow collective society to collect royalties for copies incidental to use of new broadcast technologies - Whether broadcast-incidental copies require a separate licence under a technologically-neutral interpretation of the Copyright Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-42 - If a licence is required in FCA File No. A-516-12, what is a technologically-neutral royalty rate for broadcast-incidental copies - Whether the Board err in law by granting an interim licence in FCA File No. A-63-13. 

Here is the link to all the factums.

I filed a factum on behalf of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy of McGill University (headed by Prof. David Lametti, now David Lametti, M.P.) and Prof. Ariel Katz of the University of Toronto, both of whom appeared with me at the hearing.

A webcast of the hearing is available here.

HPK