2004 Copying Copyright Infringement Fair Use 
IPilogue
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
This past Monday, Osgoode’s very own Professor David Vaver delivered the 2021 Brace lecture on “User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond” as the series’ very first international speaker from outside the United States. It wasn’t until the late 1900s that courts in the UK began to recognize a problem with the tendency towards legal copyright.
Copyright Lately
MAY 17, 2021
And putting aside its pure entertainment value, the sketch also raises some interesting questions about just how much of an original work may be taken before parodic fair use crosses the line into copyright infringement. Kermit the Frog and Robert De Niro on SNL (2004). Jason Segel and the Muppets on SNL (2011).
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Technology & Marketing Law Blog
DECEMBER 15, 2021
In theory, 512(f) makes copyright owners do their homework and think carefully before they weaponize a copyright takedown notice. In 2004, the Ninth Circuit eviscerated it (in the Rossi case) by requiring plaintiffs to show that senders subjectively believed their takedown notices were abusive. A New 512(f) Plaintiff Win!
Michael Geist
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
In doing so, they have relied on a steady diet of misleading claims about the state of the law, the licensing practices of Canadian educational institutions, the importance (or lack thereof) of copying of materials in course packs, and the effects of fair dealing. The caselaw on Canadian copyright is unequivocal.
Copyright Lately
OCTOBER 25, 2021
As the story goes, they provided him with a copy of a few scenes from “Ghostbusters” in which the theme would appear. But Lewis thought the song was a rip-off of “I Want a New Drug” and asserted a copyright infringement claim against Columbia Pictures. to write the’s film’s signature song.
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