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The 11 countries part of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) signed the deal on March 8 in Santiago, Chile.

A discussion on whether the Crown is immune from paying tariffs under the Copyright Act.

I wanted to connect the themes of the record business with contract tips, so have separated the discussion into two articles.

In "Bissoon-Dath v. Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc.", the US District Court for the Northern District of California granted summary judgment in favour of Sony in a copyright dispute over the popular "God of War" video game.

In the long-awaited second part of its decision establishing rates for the communication of music over the Internet, the Copyright Board determined Friday that broadcasters’ online use of music should attract essentially the same liability as their traditional broadcasts.

The majority of the provisions of Canada’s Copyright Modernization Act (the "CMA") entered into force today, November 7.

A legal guide to developing and using artificial intelligence.

In Toronto Star Newspapers Limited v OpenAI Inc, the Ontario Superior Court delivered a significant ruling on the jurisdiction of Ontario (and Canadian) courts to determine...

A decision of the UK Court of Appeal has found that copyright likely subsists in the Bitcoin File Format and provides a detailed summary of the concept of fixation in copyright law.

Canada welcomes international participants in its economy and business community. A focus of Aird & Berlis LLP is to represent international clients investing in Canada

If you live on Planet Earth and own a smartphone, computer or TV, you have probably already seen the viral meme of Senator Bernie Sanders birthed at the historic 46th U.S. Presidential...

In 2018, the Government of Canada launched a national Intellectual Property (IP) strategy intended to help Canadian businesses and innovators learn about and gain access to IP protection.

On November 15, 2017, the Federal Court of Appeal issued its Reasons for Judgment in an appeal from an order that (1) granted the respondent's motion for security for costs ...

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.

Copyright in graffiti is an interesting and relatively unexplored area of law in Canada. It is still unclear what kinds of protections a graffiti artists' work can be afforded...

This is the third and final entry in a three-part blog series about the interaction between estates law and intellectual property law.

Clarence Darrow once said: "Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away."

The balance between the public's interest in accessing offshore petroleum resources data and operators' commercial interests is at the heart of the dispute between GSI and Encana Corporation.