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- Never Say “Never on a Sunday”. Has Blacklock’s Bottomed Out with Another Black Eye – Yet Again?
(Here’s the famous “Never on a Sunday” chorus of the Connie Francis classic) Blacklock’s protracted attempt to stop summary judgment proceedings that it had long ago agreed to has resulted in yet another black eye in its long losing litany of litigation. Let me repeat myself from my recent blog whe … Read more »
- Blacklock’s Attempt to Block Resolution of Its Litany of Litigation
(Wikimedia)Blacklock’s is trying to block the efforts of the Attorney General of Canada (“AGC”) to seek via a counterclaim a summary judgment ruling that might end the seemingly endless litigation attempts by Blacklock’s going back to about 2014 and its attempt to refloat its definitive defeat on fa … Read more »
- Victory and Vindication from Justice Abella and the Supreme Court of Canada for Canadian Educators
“Veni, vidi, vici”: Julius Caesar, 47 BC The more than ten-year-old effort by Access Copyright (“AC”) to impose a “mandatory tariff” through the Copyright Board on Canadian educational institutions is over in a quick, decisive, and devastating unanimous judgment from Justice Rosalie Abellaof the S … Read more »
- Default Judgment Dire Doomsday for Downloaders? Update August 4, 2021
I am becoming increasingly concerned about how default judgments potentially may be viewed as precedents to establish sometimes sweeping and even sometimes wrong principles in IP cases. Sometimes, default judgments arise because the defendant(s) never participate, which can be for any number of rea … Read more »
- The Copyright Board 2021 Second Town Hall – From Dysfunctional to Dormant After Nearly Four Years of No Hearings
On May 31, 2021 the Canadian Bar Association hosted a second Copyright Board Town Hall. The first was in 2019. I’ve written about it here. As I said at that time: Spoiler alert: Although Mme Théberge did at least acknowledge the delay issue at the outset, neither she nor Maître Audet indicated any … Read more »