Last week's Supreme Court online music tariff decision — popularly known as the Tariff 22 case — culminated nine years of legal wrangling as the Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers of Music in Canada (SOCAN), a leading Canadian music collective, failed in its attempt to pin a new royalty […]
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Using Tariff 22 Decision To Sue Offshore Sites
The National Post features a story today on recording industry plans to use the Tariff 22 decision as the basis for suits against offshore sites. Professor Geist comments that similar suits against Grokster in the U.S. have succeeded on jurisdictional grounds but failed to show copyright infringement. see: CAIP v. […]
More on the Tariff 22 Decision
The Canadian media provides full coverage of the Tariff 22 decision with perspectives from all sides. Professor Geist appeared on CBC, CTV, CBC Newsworld and in the pages of Globeandmail.com, CNET, the Toronto Star, and Vancouver Sun commenting on the implications of the case. see: CAIP v. SOCAN also see: […]
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