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.

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

My Response to Consultation on Canadian Copyright Term Extension

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I submitted my personal comments in response to the Canadian Government's problematic consultation on How to Implement an extended term ...
Tuesday, March 02, 2021

Let’s Listen to the Former American Register of Copyrights about How to Deal with the Last 20 Years of the Extended Life + 70 Copyright Term

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  As the absurd and inexcusably short deadline of March 12, 2021 to comment on the Government of Canada’s   very disappointing consultati...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

February 25 2021 Online discussion about CDN Government Consultation paper on how to implement an extended general term of copyright protection in Canada

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The government held a one-hour online discussion about its  Consultation paper on how to implement an extended general term of copyright pro...
Friday, February 12, 2021

Copyright Term Extension - March 12 2021 Deadline to Respond to Very Disappointing Document

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 ICYMI, see  here : https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/693.nsf/vwapj/consultation-implement-extended-term-copyright-protection-Canada-en.pdf/$fil...
Wednesday, January 06, 2021

The Copyright Board Begins 2021 with Less Transparency and More Potentially Dysfunctional Delays

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  Just in time for Christmas, 2020, the Governor in Council implemented the long-awaited Time Limits regulations regarding the Copyright Boa...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

Leave to Appeal Granted in Access Copyright v. York U

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Both sides have been granted Leave to Appeal. Here were my observations   about the decision from the Federal Court of Appeal decision from ...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

The Outpost - Mass Copyright Litigation

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  (Wikepedia) Another instalment in the mass litigation litany from the Aird and Berlis firm has now been released involving The Outpost - a...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Access Copyright v. York University - Update on Supreme Court - Replies Have Been Filed

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  Here's Access Copyright's Reply. Here's York's Reply.  The materials were submitted to the Judges on September 14, 2020, W...
Friday, September 04, 2020

Access Copyright and York U File Responses in SCC

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(Canadian Encyclopedia) Here's Access Copyright's  Response  to York's Leave to Appeal Application. Here's York U's  Res...
Thursday, September 03, 2020

The Copyright Board’s New $757,548.50 (+?) Website – Finally an Apparently Functional Search Engine – but Otherwise Disappointing at Best and Problematic at Worst – And Still NO CANLII Presence

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  The Copyright Board finally announced its “new” website  yesterday, September 2, 2020: The Copyright Board welcomes you to its new websi...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

Access Copyright and York University File Leave to Appeal Material in the Supreme Court of Canada

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Access Copyright (“AC”) and York University have both filed applications for leave to appeal in the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”)   ...
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