The made-in-Canada notice-and-notice provisions are coming in
January, 2015.
You may recall that in June 2012 the Copyright Modernization
Act was passed by Parliament. Portions of the new
copyright law came into force in November 2012, while the so-called
notice-and-notice procedures were held back, to give the government
time to consider regulations. (See:
New Copyright Act Becomes Law... In
Part) Through an Order in Council,
the government has elected to proceed without regulations.
The new provisons legally require Internet intermediaries, such
as ISPs and website hosts, to take certain actions upon receiving a
notice of alleged infringement from a copyright owner.
Specifically, ISPs and hosts are required to forward notices,
sent by copyright owners, to users whose Internet address has been
identified as being the source of possible infringement. The
intermediary must also inform the copyright owner once the notice
has been sent.
