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Transplanting the Canadian UGC Exception to Hong Kong: Part 2

Transplanting the Canadian UGC Exception to Hong Kong: Part 2

In Part I of this series of blog posts, I discussed a position paper I submitted to the Hong Kong government as part of its public consultation on the treatment of parody under the copyright regime. This post continues from where the previous post left off. It discusses a forthcoming article I contributed to the Symposium on User-Generated Content under Canadian Copyright Law, which […]

Transplanting the Canadian UGC Exception to Hong Kong: Part 1

Transplanting the Canadian UGC Exception to Hong Kong: Part 1

In July 2013, the Hong Kong government conducted a public consultation on the treatment of parody under the copyright regime. Building on two earlier consultations on digital copyright reform in December 2006 and April 2008, this latest consultation identified three legislative options: (1) clarifying the threshold for criminal copyright infringement; (2) introducing a specific criminal […]