"Communication To The Public" Also Hot-Button Issue Across the Pond

Ben Farrow is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. As previously reported by the IPilogue here, the Supreme Court of Canada is not the only national court grappling with the term “communication to the public”. Similar to two of the internet copyright cases heard by the Supreme Court of Canada earlier this month […]

‘Ringtone’ Tariff Appeal Refused by SCC

Last month, the SCC refused leave to appeal from the FCA’s decision in Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association v. SOCAN.  The FCA had undertaken the judicial review of a tariff decision by the Copyright Board. The tariff covered the communication of musical works, in the form of cell phone ringtones, from suppliers to subscribers. At issue […]