Copyright Law – Year in Review

While 2013 was not a seminal year for Canadian copyright cases when compared to 2012, there were certainly some memorable decisions which provide a worthwhile read by any standards. The following is a sampling of some of the most interesting cases of the year. A fuller description of the below decisions can be found in Barry Sookman's paper which was recently presented at the Law Society of Upper Canada's 18^th Annual Intellectual Property Law: The Year in Review program. A link to the paper can be found on Sookman's blog.

The most important copyright case of the year was the Supreme Court of Canada decision of Cinar Corporation v Robinson, 2013 SCC 73. The Supreme Court used the platform of a dispute between competing children's cartoons to flesh out several important issues in copyright law. The Supreme Court agreed with the creator of the children's television show "The Adventures of Robinson Curiosity" that another television show, "Robinson Sucroë", had infringed