AI, Copyright + the Wisdom of Experience: my keynote speech at All In
I had the pleasure earlier this week to speak at the All In AI Event in Montreal. This was a premiere 2 day event described as “The most important event dedicated to Canadian AI”. The programming was...
View ArticleFive Tech Cases Everyone Needs to Know – SOCAN v CAIP
The Supreme Court decision in SOCAN v CAIP was a landmark copyright decision that broke new ground on the liability (or immunities) of ISPs for copyright infringement in Canada and in formulating the...
View ArticleMy Panel on copyright developments at the Fordham IP Conference
I had the pleasure of speaking at the 31st Annual Fordham Institute Property Law & Policy Conference earlier today. In my view the Fordham conference continues to be the best IP conference...
View ArticleIs a right to repair coming to Canada?
In 2012 Canada amended the Copyright Act to introduce legal protection for technological measures (TPMs) as part of the Copyright Modernizaton Act. In the 2024 Budget published yesterday the...
View ArticleALAI Canada Annual copyright review 2023-2024
Copyright lawyers always want to keep up with developments in copyright law. Earlier this week I gave my annual copyright update to copyright lawyers at an ALAI Canada meeting. A copy of my...
View ArticleYear(s) in review – IT, Internet, AI, IP, Privacy & Blockchain
I had the pleasure of presenting the annual Year in Review of IT/Internet law to the Toronto Computer Lawyers Group on June 6, 2024. It was great to see a packed-in person event of IT lawyers after...
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ISED has now published the submissions to the consultation on generative AI and copyright. The consultation focused on the impacts of recent developments in generative AI on the creative industries...
View ArticleUnderstanding subscription licenses, fair dealing and legal protection for...
The Federal Court issued another troubling copyright decision involving Blacklock’s Reporter (BR) in the recent case, 1395804 Ontario Ltd, operating as Blacklock’s Reporter v AG Canada, 2024 FC 829. In...
View ArticleCopyright and Supreme Court Canada: A Century of Evolution
I had the pleasure of speaking earlier this week at the ALAI Centennial Symposium marking the hundredth anniversary of the coming into force of the Copyright Act. To celebrate this anniversary, ALAI...
View ArticleTDM Exceptions and Copyright: A German Court Decision
Is the creation of a dataset that can be used to train generative AI systems (GenAI systems) an infringement of copyright? According to a recent decision of a German court, the activity may be...
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