Locking Out Lawful Users

Carys Craig is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School Michael Geist’s edited collection of essays on copyright reform is being released on October 14th, and you are welcome to attend its launch. This exciting and timely publication, entitled ‘From “Radical Extremism” to “Balanced Copyright”: Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda’, contains twenty chapters […]

Protecting Protection is Nothing New

James Gannon is a lawyer at McCarthy Tétrault LLP; he blogs at jamesgannon.ca One of the federal government’s main stated objectives in enacting Bill C-32, the Copyright Modernization Act,[1] is to implement the rights and protections for authors, performers and sound recording makers found in the WIPO Internet Treaties[2].[3] Bill C-32 would amend the Canadian […]