EXCESS COPYRIGHT

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.

Monday, October 29, 2018

Buried Deep in a Budget Bill - Sweeping Amendments re Canada's Copyright Board

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Buried in a Budget Bill  introduced today are dozens of pages of very complicated amendments concerning Canada's Copyright Board. Here...
Friday, October 19, 2018

Voltage Pictures and the Massive Mass Litigation Mess in Canada

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Voltage Pictures has been trying to sue 55,000 Canadians all at once through an unprecedented federal “reverse class action” in whic...
Tuesday, October 02, 2018

NAFTA/USMCA is Even Worse Than You Thought on Intellectual Property: CETA Victory is Now Forfeited & Long Live Life + 70 etc.

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(What Goes Up Must Come Down - Except in the case of IP in treaty law) A possibly unintended and certainly unwelcome consequence...
Monday, October 01, 2018

The Cost of Canadian IP Capitulation in NAFTA.

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(Wikimedia) Here are a few quick initial points on the IP chapter in the new NAFTA and Canada’s capitulation to US lobby groups, ...
Friday, September 14, 2018

Rogers v. Voltage - My comments today September 14, 2018 on CTV

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Here's the judgment and SCC summary. My further comments will follow. HPK

Rogers Wins in Supreme Court of Canada

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From the head note:                     The respondents are film production companies that allege that their copyrights have been infrin...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Two New Copyright Board Appointments: Nathalie Théberge and Adriane Porcin

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The Governor in Council has recently made the following long awaited appointments to the Copyright Board: Nathalie Théberge of Gati...
Wednesday, September 05, 2018

More On Mass Copyright Litigation in Canada – Part II

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I have recently been writing about copyright litigation directed at BitTorrent users in Canada which I have been doing since my posting al...
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