Entertainment Software Assoc. v. Society Composers, 2020 FCA 100
Jurisdiction | Federal Jurisdiction (Canada) |
Court | Court of Appeal (Canada) |
Citation | 2020 FCA 100 |
Date | 05 June 2020 |
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Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada v. Entertainment Software Association,
...Conference, Doc. CRNR/DC/4, August 30, 1996. APPEAL from a judgment of the Federal Court of Appeal (Pelletier, Stratas and Near JJ.A.), 2020 FCA 100, [2021] 1 F.C.R. 374 , [2020] F.C.J. No. 671 (QL), 2020 CarswellNat 1745 (WL), setting aside a decision of the Copyright Board of Canada,......
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Court Of Appeal Summaries (January 24-28, 2022)
...of Education, [2008] O.I.P.C. No. 166, Entertainment Software Association v. Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, 2020 FCA 100, [2020] F.C.J. No. 671, Mobil Oil Canada Ltd. v. CanadaNewfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board, [1994] 1 S.C.R. 202, MiningWatch Canada v. Ca......
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Court Of Appeal Summaries (January 24-28, 2022)
...of Education, [2008] O.I.P.C. No. 166, Entertainment Software Association v. Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, 2020 FCA 100, [2020] F.C.J. No. 671, Mobil Oil Canada Ltd. v. CanadaNewfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board, [1994] 1 S.C.R. 202, MiningWatch Canada v. Ca......
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Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada v. Entertainment Software Association, 2022 SCC 30
...Conference, Doc. CRNR/DC/4, August 30, 1996. APPEAL from a judgment of the Federal Court of Appeal (Pelletier, Stratas and Near JJ.A.), 2020 FCA 100, [2021] 1 F.C.R. 374 , [2020] F.C.J. No. 671 (QL), 2020 CarswellNat 1745 (WL), setting aside a decision of the Copyright Board of Canada,......
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Brown et al. v. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, 2020 FCA 130
...of Administrative Action in Canada, (Toronto: Thomson Reuters, 2019) at § 15:2241; Entertainment Software Assoc. v. Society Composers, 2020 FCA 100 at para. 88 (Entertainment Software Assoc.) and cases cited therein). The classic statement of this principle is found in Roncarelli v. Dupless......
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Canada v. Boloh 1(a),
...391 at paras. 43-48, largely affirming Entertainment Software Association v. Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, 2020 FCA 100, [2021] 1 F.C.R. 374 at paras. 76-92. [51] The Federal Court did not cite the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in H.F., above......
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Strom v. Saskatchewan Registered Nurses’ Association, 2020 SKCA 112
...regardless of Vavilov. That point has been resoundingly made by Stratas J.A. in Entertainment Software Association v Society Composers, 2020 FCA 100 at paras 22–41, where he analyzed the jurisprudence of the Federal Court of Appeal relating to the reasonableness standard of [56] That said, ......
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Court Of Appeal Summaries (January 24-28, 2022)
...of Education, [2008] O.I.P.C. No. 166, Entertainment Software Association v. Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, 2020 FCA 100, [2020] F.C.J. No. 671, Mobil Oil Canada Ltd. v. CanadaNewfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board, [1994] 1 S.C.R. 202, MiningWatch Canada v. Ca......
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Court Of Appeal Summaries (January 24-28, 2022)
...of Education, [2008] O.I.P.C. No. 166, Entertainment Software Association v. Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, 2020 FCA 100, [2020] F.C.J. No. 671, Mobil Oil Canada Ltd. v. CanadaNewfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board, [1994] 1 S.C.R. 202, MiningWatch Canada v. Ca......
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For Whom The Ringtone Tolls ' Federal Court Confirms No Repayment Owed To Telecommunications Companies By SOCAN For Communicating Downloadable Ringtones
...(for an update as to the status of the "making available" right, see our discussion of Entertainment Software Assoc. v. Society Composers, 2020 FCA 100 and CMRRA-SODRAC Inc. v. Apple Canada Inc., 2020 FCA 101 in our Canadian Copyright 2020 Year in Review). Over the years, as the present dis......
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"Making Available" Is Not An Independent Copyright In Canada
...the musical work. On appeal, the Federal Court of Appeal quashed the Board's decision (Entertainment Software Assoc. v. Society Composers, 2020 FCA 100). The Court highlighted two general reasons why the Board's decision could not stand: (1) an unacceptable legislative interpretation that f......
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