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Productivity Commission: Tales of the Widespread Demise of Canadian Publishers are Just That

By Ariel Katz Posted on December 20, 2016 Posted in Blog, Copyright, Copyright Collectives, Stationers No Comments

Earlier today, Australia’s Productivity Commission released its long-awaited Inquiry Report on Intellectual Property Arrangements. The Productivity Commission was set up by statute to provide the Australian Government independent research and advisory body on a range of economic, social and environmental issues, in order to help governments make better policies, in the long term interest of the Australian community. The lengthy report and its recommendations should be of interest to many readers of this blog. With respect to copyright, one of the Commission’s main areas of study was whether Australia should adopt an open and flexible fair use regime and abandon …

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The Copyright Board of Canada: A Regulator Lacking a Theory of Regulation

By Ariel Katz Posted on November 3, 2016 Posted in Antitrust / Competition Law, Blog, Copyright, Copyright Collectives, Stationers No Comments

I appeared today before the Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce, in the course of its study of the operation and practices of the Copyright Board of Canada. Here is my testimony:

Digital Exhaustion: North American Observations

By Ariel Katz Posted on November 1, 2016 Posted in Blog, Copyright, My Research, Stationers No Comments

My book chapter Digital Exhaustion: North American Observations has been published in the Research Handbook on Electronic Commerce Law, edited by John A. Rothchild.

Fair Dealing: Have We Had Fair Use All Along? (HKU Public Lecture in IP)

By Ariel Katz Posted on November 1, 2016 Posted in Blog, Copyright, Copyright Collectives No Comments

I am excited and honoured to give the Hong Kong University Public Lecture in IP next Wednesday, Nov 9, 2016. The title of my lecture is “Fair Dealing: Have We Had Fair Use All Along?” The lecture is based on this book chapter. Abstract: Conventional wisdom holds that while the fair use doctrine in the United States is omnipresent and flexible, fair dealing, its Commonwealth cousin is more rigid and can only apply to the specifically enumerated statutory purposes. Fair use, on this view, is an American invention—foreign to the copyright traditions of the rest of the common law world. …

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SODRAC v. Quebec Artists?

By Ariel Katz Posted on September 26, 2016 Posted in Blog, Copyright, Copyright Collectives No Comments

Pier-Luk Bouthillier is a Montreal graphic designer. He had previously worked as an Art Director for the cultural weekly “ICI Montreal”, and in 2007, he launched his first in a series of environmentally-themed t-shirts. You can see his t-shirts on his website (as well as some ‘Fleur de lys’ boxer briefs). One of Mr. Bouthillier’s shirts, J’aime Montréal, features a few stylized drawings of various Montreal landmarks, organized around the slogan J’♥ Montréal. According to the CBC, this got Mr. Bouthillier in some legal trouble.