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Scooter Braun and Ithaca Holding's recent acquisition of the record label Big Machine Records and, most importantly, the master recordings of Taylor Swift's first 6 albums is no love story

In Ark Innovation Technology Inc. v. Matidor Technologies Inc., 2021 FC 1336 (Ark v. Matidor) Justice McHaffie recently found a BC software company and its founder liable for...

On July 12, 2012 the Supreme Court of Canada released decisions in five appeals on copyright cases.

The Supreme Court of Canada granted leave to appeal the Federal Court of Appeal decision in the Voltage case November 23, 2017.

The first quarter of 2021 has been a busy jurisprudential time for the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board ("TRREB").

Careful observers of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in American Broadcasting Cos. v. Aereo may have detected a small Canadian flavour in the majority’s reasoning.

The age of the Internet poses many new challenges to those individuals seeking to protect and enforce their intellectual property rights online.

Last month, the Supreme Court of Canada released its much-anticipated decision in Keatley Surveying Ltd. v Teranet Inc., 2019 SCC 43.

As noted recently by Canada's Federal Court: "the Copyright Act is, at the risk of understatement, complex". Commencing a claim for copyright infringement requires satisfying various conditions precedent set out ...

The legacy of the movie The Room, Tommy Wiseau's infamously terrible 2003 cult classic, reached new heights (or lows depending on your point of view) last week when it made its mark on Canadian law in Justice Schabas' decision in ...

The Board considers and certifies tariff proposals that are filed by the different collective societies that represent copyright owners.

Thomson Reuters obtained summary judgment against ROSS Intelligence, a legal AI startup that used headnotes from Westlaw to train a "question and answer" search engine for legal research.

High-level issues arise when an entity is considering transferring some, or all, of its rights in a technology to another party. Two common ways to transfer rights are through sale and licensing.

The Supreme Court of the United States recently decided a copyright case involving Swiss watchmaker Omega and retail giant Costco.

The Court of Appeal further noted that land surveyors are under no obligation to register or deposit plans of survey on title.

The term "trade secret" essentially refers to confidential information.

In the context of today's Internet technology, the infringement of copyrighted works has become simplified and wide-spread, with infringers emboldened by the ability to keep their identities largely private.

In the first order of its kind in Canada, the Federal Court has issued an injunction directing named internet service providers (ISPs) to prevent users ...