Copyright in Canada is a function of the Copyright Act
- without that law, there would be no copyright. How does Canadian
copyright law interact with the copyright law in other
countries?
In Active Operations Management (AOM) NA
Inc. et al v. Reveal Group, 2013 ONSC 8014
(CanLII) (a law-school-exam-question of a case if ever there
was one), the court dealt with a claim by an Ontario company
of infringement within Canada of UK copyright, by another Ontario
company controlled by an Australian resident, Mr. Crouch.
The claim by AOM reads like a software vendor's nightmare.
AOM is the Canadian distributor of certain software developed in
the UK. According to the allegations by AOM, Mr. Crouch copied
elements of the software and a business method when he worked for
an Australian licensee of the UK software. Mr. Crouch started a
company in Canada and then allegedly used that as a vehicle to
market a replica version of the UK software and the corresponding
method in
