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Intellectual property law is good. Excess in intellectual property law is not. This blog is about excess in IP and related law. I have practiced law with prestigious firms and successfully acted for interveners in several important Supreme Court cases. I've also been in government & academe. My views are purely personal. Nothing on this blog should be taken as legal advice. I am a policy provocateur and currently not practising law. My email address is hknopf@gmail.com.

Tuesday, December 07, 2010

AUCC FAQ re AC's Proposed 2011-2013 Tariff

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Here is a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document   dated today, December 7, 2010 concerning the proposed Access Copyright tariff. This ...
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Answer to Quiz re Fair Dealing in Universities Copyright

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Back on November 17, 2010, posted a "quiz" on the source of a document on fair dealing in the university context. The document was...
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AUCC also calls for delay @ Copyright Board citing "procedural fairness" Concerns

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Following the submission of Prof. Katz last night , but in different terms, AUCC has also now called for a delay in the Board’s scheduled d...
Monday, December 06, 2010

Prof. Ariel Katz's Submission to Copyright Board - Dec, 6, 2010

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Prof. Ariel Katz is a an expert in copyright and competition law and teaches at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he is Innova...

Crookes v. Newton - some useful links and "break a leg" & Long Live Links!

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Jon Newton is a brave and principled man.Tomorrow, he and his very capable counsel, Dan Burnett,  will fight for the fundamental right to h...
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More Confusion At the Copyright Board - more time for AC to get it right?

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Here’s the latest from the Copyright Board from this afternoon. If the Board can’t figure out what AC is up to, how are all the objectors an...

Confrontation at the Copyright Board? Big Problems - Proposed Solution

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Yesterday, on a snowy Sunday afternoon, with a deadline to object looming in five business days as Christmas approaches, AC sent out this n...
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Friday, December 03, 2010

Curiouser & Curiouser @ Copyright Board's AC Hearings

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Here’s another extraordinary ruling below from the Board from earlier today offering AC a chance to rehabilitate its clearly vague and in...
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Statutory Damages - Canada, USA v. Almost Everywhere Else in the World

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Michael Geist has a good post today on statutory minimum damages and how Canada is so atypical in this respect. I did a post in 2008 about...

AC Interim Tariff Coming For Christmas? December 10 deadline to proteest

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Here are more rulings from the Board, which is moving with astonishing speed on this file by any measure and certainly by its own normal pac...
Thursday, December 02, 2010

AC's Tries Negative Option to Sustain Digital Rights Licensing

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As I pointed out on October 26, 2010: Many if not most creator and publisher affiliates have refrained from giving AC any digital rights. It...
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More "Correcting" and Apology from AC

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This was just passed on to me. HK ******************* From: HOFLEY, RANDALL Sent: December 1, 2010 5:34 PM To: Gilles.mcdougall@cb-cda.g...
Wednesday, December 01, 2010

AC in Damage Control if not Retreat Mode

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Here’s a very interesting email from AC’s new lawyer, Randall Hofley, who replaces Barry Sookman. Note the following rather remarkable con...
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ACCC gets counsel and seeks delay on AC’s Interim Tariff – Katz nails fairness & delay issue

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The Association of Universities and Colleges (“ACCC”) has retained Wanda Noel and Aidan O’Neill. They are the solicitors who represented C...
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