Fair Dealing

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 properly compensating the media companies that provide the original content.  According to the Canadian Copyright Act, such taking of original content is allowed as long as […]

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, in a judgment on a motion to strike portions of the Statement of Defence, the B.C. Supreme Court Master ruled that parody could not be […]