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Twitter Blue Fiasco – “Please note that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in coming months”, tweeted Elon Musk

The IPKat

As suggested in case law such as Amstrad CBS Songs v Amstrad [1998] 1 AC 1013 , procurement, whether by inducement, incitement or persuasion, “ must be by a defendant to an individual infringer and must identifiably procure a particular infringement in order to make the defendant liable as a joint infringer ”.

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“Inducing” Copyright Infringement in Canada: Is it a Thing?

IPilogue

In other words, inducing copyright or other IP infringement is a Thing only if, additionally, a common design or intent between an inducer and inducee to do acts that amount to infringement is found to exist, so that they become joint infringers ( CBS Songs Ltd v Amstrad Plc [1988] RPC 567, 606-9 (HL)).