The structure of the Canadian Copyright Bundle : How many rights do we really have ?  

Dear Members and friends of ALAI Canada,

It is with pleasure that we invite you to register for the next ALAI Canada conference.

The structure of the Canadian Copyright Bundle : How many rights do we really have?  

Activity run in ENGLISH

Online formation

Date: Friday, February 21st 2025, from noon to 1:00 PM (Montreal time)

1:00 of Continuing Legal Education

Costs (taxes not included):

• 30,00 $ for members of ALAI Canada and other national groups of ALAI
• 75,00 $ for non-members
• Free for students

Description:

This talk will trace the evolution of the Canadian copyright basket over time, both in terms of how many rights it contains, and how those rights relate to each other. This historical approach will show tension between Parliament’s desire to add new rights to the copyright bundle, and courts’ tendency to interpret those rights narrowly, or even to read them out of the Copyright Act entirely. The talk will conclude with an examination of the Supreme Court’s decision in ESA (No 2), and what that decision means in practice for both copyright litigators and transactional lawyers.

Guest speaker :

• Me Michael Shortt, Fasken