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By Updated Practice Direction and Order dated April 4, 2020, the Federal Court has further extended the Suspension Period to May 15, 2020.

The Federal Court of Canada has recently signalled its willingness to accept technology as a stand-in for human analysis in a copyright infringement claim.

In a previous article, we reported on the dispute between Hermès and Los Angeles artist Mason Rothschild over Rothschild's sale of MetaBirkins online.

In a major, but slim, victory for proponents of electronic commerce, a majority of the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that online sellers of music and video game downloads are not required to pay more copyright royalties than their "bricks and mortar" counterparts, solely because the products from the virtual stores are delivered via the internet

Canada's core IP statutes have been amended by Bill C-86, which received Royal Assent as the Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 2, SC 2018, c 27 on December 14, 2018.

The powerful combination provided by broadly worded legal prohibitions plus the potential for the award of large statutory damages, a helpful factual profile and a sympathetic judge . . .

The Supreme Court of Canada recently confirmed the availability of a novel form of worldwide injunction whereby Google, a non-party to the litigation, was required to block worldwide access...

On June 11, 2025, The Walt Disney Company ("Disney") and Universal Pictures ("Universal") filed a joint copyright infringement lawsuit against AI image generator Midjourney...

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?

Numerous intellectual property offices worldwide have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by instituting time period extensions for various IP matters.

When the Act was last amended in 1997, a new section 92 ensured that, within five years after its coming into force, the Minister (Canadian Heritage) would report to both Houses of Parliament on the operation of the Act and on recommendations for further amendments.

The Quebec Court of Appeal has released a decision stating that an employer is the presumed owner of the copyright to works created by an employee.

The Federal Court of Appeal has reaffirmed the rule in Trader Corp. v. CarGurus, 2017 ONSC 1841 (Trader) that while there should be some correlation or proportionality between actual damages...

Some defendants have the mistaken belief that court deadlines are inherently flexible, and that even a default judgment can be set aside with a simple "mea culpa".

Sections 41.25 and 41.26 of the Copyright Act allow copyright owners to send notices of infringed copyright to ISPs, such as Rogers.

Parody has been a fair dealing exception to copyright infringement in Canada since 2012.

In 1908, Anne of Green Gables was published and it launched the literary career of Lucy Maud Montgomery.