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Fair Dealing’s Halls of Fame and Shame – 2013 Holiday Edition
On May 15, 2012 the University of British Columbia announced that it would not sign a license agreement with Access Copyright, and immediately was inducted into Canada’s Fair Dealing Hall of Fame. “We...
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Beyond Refusal to Deal: A Cross-Atlantic View of Copyright, Competition, and...
Conventional wisdom holds that the European Union has opted to apply its competition law to the exercise of intellectual property rights to a much greater extent than has the United States. In a new...
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Competition law protects competition, not competitors: timely reminder from...
Earlier this week the Federal Court of Appeal overturned a decision of the Competition Tribunal that had dismissed the Commissioner of Competition’s case against the Toronto Real Estate Board last...
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More competition for ebooks in Canada coming soon
The Competition Bureau announced today that it has signed a consent decree with the four major book publishers, which is expected to lower the price of ebooks in Canada. According to the Bureau’s...
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STM’s “Open Access” Licenses: Extend, Embrace, and Extinguish
Authors Alliance recently joined a coalition of research, science, and education organizations that called on the Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) to withdraw a set of...
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Attack Ads, Copyright, and Collusion: Have Canada’s Major Broadcasters...
Canada’s first (and the world’s first) competition act: the Combines Act of 1889 Last week reports emerged that the Government is considering a new copyright exception for political advertising. The...
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Why Tariffs Aren’t Mandatory: Now the Factum
Yesterday, McGill’s Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and I filed a joint Intervener Factum in the CBC v SODRAC case before the Supreme Court of Canada. The Court granted us leave to intervene...
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The Copyright Board of Canada: A Regulator Lacking a Theory of Regulation
I appeared today before the Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce, in the course of its study of the operation and practices of the Copyright Board of Canada. Here is my testimony: Mr....
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Piracy in Canada: We Don’t Have a Lawlessness Problem But a Competition Problem
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) has requested me to prepare a Report in connection with the application by the FairPlay Coalition to the CRTC and its proposed website-blocking mechanism....
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The Chicago School and the Forgotten Political Dimension of Antitrust Law
I am very excited to announce that my new essay “The Chicago School and the Forgotten Political Dimension of Antitrust Law” has been published in the University of Chicago Law Review. Here’s the...
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