Infringement! Litigation! Legislation! There is never a dull
moment in the wonderful world of intellectual property law, and
2013 will be no exception. Here's our list of what to watch in
the coming year:
Copyright. If you keep making the same
predictions year after year, eventually one of them will come true,
right? For the last several years, we predicted that copyright
reform would finally come to Canada. 2012 did not disappoint
as the year of copyright, with the release of five SCC decisions
and the passing of the
copyright modernization legislation that had been long
awaited. We expect that 2013 will provide some opportunities
to test the new law in court.
Anti-Spam. As with copyright, many have
predicted that Canada's "new" anti-spam law would
come into effect for several years. Yes, Parliament passed the
Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam
Act and it did receive royal assent way back in December,
2010. However, Canada's anti-spam legislation is still not
