Afroditi Theodoridou is a PhD student at Osgoode Hall Law School. At the 27th Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association (VRA), the international organization of image media professionals, the…
Category: Fair Dealing
IP Osgoode Panel: Copyright in the Remix Era Part 1 – A History Lesson
Last Friday, IP Osgoode hosted a panel of copyright thinkers at Osgoode Entertainment and Sports Law Association’s 11th Annual Entertainment and Sports Law Conference. The panel was entitled “Copyright in…
Fair Dealing - Remembering the rights holder
As discussed by Anna in her post yesterday, fair dealing under Canadian law works as follows: a user is allowed a limited use of a copyrighted material without needing to get…
News aggregation websites: Fair dealing v. Free riding
There is a growing concern among media companies that news aggregation websites (NAWs) are taking large portions of original content, ‘shaving away potential readers and profiting from the content’ without…
Parody and Canadian copyright law
While parody is a well-established defence to copyright infringement in the U.S, a recent B.C. Supreme Court decision says that this is not the case in Canada. On November 24,…