Copyright Year in Review 2021-2022
I had the pleasure earlier today to provide a talk to ALAI on “Copyright The Year in Review 2021-2022. I prepared an annotation of the cases covered which included the following cases: Pyrrha Design...
View ArticleSupreme Court of Canada confirms all acts of making available are covered by...
In a decision just released in Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada v. Entertainment Software Association, 2022 SCC 30, the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed that Canada fully...
View ArticleBitcoin file format not protected by copyright: Wright v BTC Core
Technologies associated with blockchains have raised many novel issues of law. One of the issues is whether copyright is capable of subsisting in file formats used in the Bitcoin System. This issue was...
View ArticleALAI CANADA – ANNUAL MID-YEAR REVIEW OF CANADIAN COPYRIGHT LAW DEVELOPMENTS
I was very pleased to give a presentation to ALAI Canada on developments in Canadian copyright law (from May 2022-May 2023). Last year’s Annual Copyright Review can be accessed here. These were the...
View ArticleCopyright may subsist in Bitcoin file format: Wright v BTC Core
In a recent UK case, Wright & Ors v BTC Core & Ors [2023] EWHC 222 (Ch) (07 February 2023), Justice Mellor ruled that the Bitcoin file format could not be protected by copyright. He did so on...
View ArticleCopyright does not protect content produced by Generative AI (GenAI): Thaler...
It has ben a fundamental tenet of copyright law that for a work to be subject to copyright protection it must be the result of human authorship. The bar for protection is low and varies from...
View ArticleGenerative AI and copyrights: My talk to the IPO
I was pleased earlier today to participate on a panel on generative AI and copyright at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) in Boston. My co-panelists were...
View ArticleCanadian consultation on the implications of GenAI for copyright.
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) and the Department of Heritage just launched a Consultation on the implications of generative artificial intelligence for...
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 ArticleResolving GenAI copyright infringement questions: 4 court decisions
Introduction The question as to whether the generative AI (GenAI) systems and their use infringes copyright is a hotly debated one, with no fewer than 12 proposed class actions and 3 lawsuits in the...
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