ARTICLE · 25 APRIL 2012

Harper vs. The SCC – Copyright Cage Match?

Field Law

T hough most people don’t give much thought to copyright law on a day to day basis, we are continuously interacting with it, when we create, copy, buy, and download all manner of things we can see, hear and use.

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Though most people don't give much thought to copyright law on a day to day basis, we are continuously interacting with it, when we create, copy, buy, and download all manner of things we can see, hear and use. The price we pay for most entertainment and business commodities includes the cost of compensating the copyright owner for allowing the reproduction and distribution of the copyright in everything from software to music, pictures, books, instruction manuals and research papers.

These copyright-related aspects of our daily lives are about to get a legal makeover – the Harper government has reintroduced Bill C-11, "The Copyright Modernization Act" to significantly amend the Copyright Act of Canada this fall; and coincidentally, the Supreme Court of Canada (the "SCC") has given leave to hear appeals of 6 different copyright-related cases at once, in December 2011.

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Harper vs. The SCC – Copyright Cage Match?

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