Howard Knopf has a pair of interesting posts (1, 2) on the absence of explicit legal protection for parody under Canadian copyright law in light of a recent case involving Canwest (case here, report on the case here).
Debating Parody Protection in Canada
December 13, 2008
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Well, its nice to see that Canwest is doing what they can to limit free speech, given that they are a newspaper chain. I can’t wait to see what they do if they went here: http://www.rathgrith.blogspot.com
Global Headlines….
I can see it now…
** Corporate Copyright Supercedes Charter of Rights – BC Supreme Court **
I wonder if it’s the same jackass judge that ruled in favour of that Chapman idiot.
( http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/12/01/bc-slappsuit.html )
BC Supreme Court has been pulling absolute boners lately.
We need freely elected Crown Councils, Judges and get rid of that damn “notwithstanding” clause.