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March 29, 2012
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan received three awards at the fifth annual North America Awards in Washington DC, in recognition of the firm’s active role in the so-called smartphone wars at the ITC and in the courts
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March 29, 2012
US Senator Patrick Leahy and Congressman Lamar Smith this week received outstanding achievement awards for their part in passing the America Invents Act
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March 21, 2012
The shortlist for the inaugural Euromoney Legal Media Group Americas Women in Business Law Awards has been announced
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March 14, 2012
Canada’s copyright reform bill is now one step closer to becoming law
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March 13, 2012
At the Canadian copyright reform hearings this month, witnesses said Bill C-11’s so-called enablement provision was insufficient to catch the “bad guys” – such as isoHunt and Megaupload
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March 12, 2012
Witnesses at a hearing on Canadian copyright reform butted heads over whether the country’s broadcast reproduction right tariff is an onerous fee demanded of radio stations or a necessary royalty to compensate artists
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March 09, 2012
If Canadian legislators are wondering what the future of copyright should be, one domain name service provider thinks they should look no further than the new Justin Bieber movie
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March 06, 2012
Farisha Constable, a senior lawyer from the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, describes a typical day in the office
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March 05, 2012
Music industry representatives have charged that Canadian copyright reform does not provide strong enough remedies against digital piracy
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February 29, 2012
Digital locks and fair dealing exemptions for educational institutions were the focus of Monday's hearing before a committee considering massive reforms to Canada’s copyright law
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February 28, 2012
Is posting a hyperlink copyright infringement? This is one of the questions at the heart of a dispute between universities and copyright owners in Canada
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February 28, 2012
An agreement signed between two Canadian universities and the country’s copyright licensing agency has prompted a storm of protest from professors
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February 14, 2012
A group of copyright owners have pledged to continue to fight to make ISPs contribute to the Canadian broadcasting system despite a Supreme Court ruling last week that said they shouldn’t have to
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February 02, 2012
Free access: The nominations for Managing IP’s North America Awards 2012 have been announced
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December 20, 2011
Next year a range of cases and law changes will affect all copyright owners – from authors to musicians to film makers – but the dominant issue will be the increasingly global and bitter debate over who should be liable for clamping down on online infringement and how best to do it
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December 07, 2011
In the last of five copyright cases heard this week by the Supreme Court of Canada, justices weighed arguments as to whether broadcasters and cinema owners must pay a separate tariff for the performance of soundtracks
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December 07, 2011
To what extent teachers' textbook copying is "fair dealing" was debated before the Supreme Court of Canada on Wednesday, one of three copyright-related cases the High Court is considering this week.
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December 07, 2011
Canada’s Supreme Court is hearing five cases this week, in a historic burst of activity that could fundamentally reshape copyright protection in the country
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December 06, 2011
The Supreme Court of Canada yesterday heard the first day of oral arguments in two cases centred on whether copyright infringement is triggered through downloading of digital media
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October 14, 2011
Canada could overhaul its copyright rules before the end of the year after the country’s Conservative Party cemented its support in the May federal elections by taking a majority of seats