Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and ISED Minister François-Philippe Champagne publicly released what amounts to a mandate letter to new CRTC Chair Vicky Eatrides this morning. Meanwhile, it will be the government’s decision on the Rogers-Shaw merger that will be crucial to Canadian competition.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Margaret Atwood, the famed Canadian author, has been the target of a predictable backlash for her comments criticizing Bill C-11. Third, I would not have thought that concerns about the CRTC would be particularly controversial.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Senator David Adams Richards tears apart Bill C-11, warning against censorship and government dictating what counts as Canadian culture. Powerful speech from one of Canada’s most acclaimed authors, having won Governor General’s Award for fiction and non-fiction and Giller Prize.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 27, 2022

The Canadian government plans to extend the term of copyright from the international standard of life of the author plus 50 years to life plus 70 years without mitigation measures that would have reduced the harms and burden of the extension. The prohibition does not apply to a prolongation of the protection conferred under the Convention.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

16778672 for a figurative mark, applied for by luxury fashion designer, Philipp Plein.” More from our authors: Managing Copyright: Emerging Business Models in the Individual and Collective Management of Rights by Rudolf Leška € 93

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