The unanimous judgment of the SCC in York University v Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright), 2021 SCC 32 decisively ends the question of whether Access Copyright (Access) may impose a “mandatory tariff” through the Copyright Board on Canadian educational institutions. This question arose when York University decided in 2011 not to renew its license [...]
Although copyright actions arise in many different fields, we don’t typically associate copyright with sports. Indeed, trademarks are most often used to protect sports logos and catchphrases. However, this week in the basketball world, Toronto Raptors superstar Kawhi Leonard filed an action in the US District Court for the Southern District of California alleging that [...]
First invented in the late 1990s, emoji have found their way into all our smartphones over the past few years. They have transformed the way we communicate online by allowing us to convey emotions, tones, gestures and expressions that would otherwise be absent with the use of a traditional alphabet in our writing. Not only [...]
