Under the Patent Act, an invention must be useful to be patentable. While in Canada the inventor does not need to describe the utility of the invention in the patent,…
Day: October 26, 2014
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How Many Spins of "Summer of '69" Earn Bryan Adams a Real Six String?
This past spring, the Copyright Board of Canada issued its decision certifying Re:Sound’s Tariff 8 and setting the royalties collected for webcasting in Canada. Many parties of interest were incensed by the proposed…
Users’ Rights and Realities: CCH, Fair Dealing, and the Experiences at Canadian Cultural Institutions
Recent research is shining a new light onto the Supreme Court of Canada’s (SCC) decision that is said to have “reconceptualized” fair dealing as an integral part of copyright law in…