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 27, 2019

Keatley v. Teranet: Land Surveys, the Law of the Land and Access to Justice – The Supremes will Have Their Hands Full but will They Have Everything they Need?

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(Clarke Surveyors Inc.) An interesting and potentially very important copyright case is about to the heard by the Supreme Court of Ca...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Update on Access Copyright Proposed Post-Secondary Educational Tariffs: 2011 - 2013 and 2014 - 2017

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On February 19, 2019, I published a blog about how the Board was seeking comments from the “Parties” on the proposed draft tariffs sought ...
Monday, March 04, 2019

Access Copyright v. York U – the Federal Court of Appeal Hearing is March 5 and 6, 2019

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The long-awaited hearing in the appeal of the Federal Court’s decision in   Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency v. York University , 201...

“Reclaiming Fair Use” by Aufderheide & Jaszi – My Treat During Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week

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I took some time during fair use/fair dealing week to belatedly look at the second edition of “Reclaiming Fair Use” by Patricia Aufde...
Friday, February 22, 2019

Piracy v. Privacy – The Federal Court Significantly Restores the Balance in Canadian Mass Copyright Litigation by Insisting on “Best Available Evidence”

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence Today’s ruling by the Federal Court of Canada in ME2 Productions, Inc. v. Doe , 2019 FC 214 is...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Access Copyright Post Secondary Tariffs - 2011-2013 & to 2014-2017 - Coming Soon to a Campus Near You?

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On February 6, 2019 the Copyright Board issued the following Notice: File / Dossier: Access Copyright   –   Post‐Secondary Educati...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Blacklock’s, Spam, CRTC, and ATIP

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Readers will be aware that I have been  following and commenting on Blacklock’s “litany of litigation” , as I have called i...
Monday, February 04, 2019

Blacklock’s Got Much of What it Wished For – For Now: Will This Be About “Be Careful What You Wish For”?

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I recently blogged about Blacklock’s “mega motion ” of December 12, 2018 concerning its “litany of litigation”. Blacklock’s was seeki...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

My Brief to the INDU Committee re Copyright Revision & S.92 Review

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HOWARD P. KNOPF HOUSE OF COMMONS INDU COMMITTEE S. 92 Statutory Review of the Copyright Act Review BRIEF December 10, 2018 1.   ...
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