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Studios and designers: Are you sure that you own the intellectual property rights to your video games?
The year 2020 will have been difficult for the vast majority of industries, and in particular for the arts, entertainment and recreation industry. The video game industry, however, is growing in leaps and bounds. For example, Nintendo and PlayStation have each set record sales for their games (…)
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The Court of Appeal Adds a Few More Shades to Canada’s Grey Market
In Canada, as elsewhere in the world, intellectual property owners have made numerous attempts to control their distribution channels through trademark law, copyright law, or exclusive contracts, without much success. However, in a recent decision (Costco Wholesale Canada Ltd. c. Simms Sigal & (…)
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Federal Court of Canada examines metatags under copyright and trademark law
In the decision Red Label Vacations Inc. (redtag.ca) v. 411 Travel Buys Limited (411 travelbuys.ca) 1, the Federal Court examined whether metatags attract copyright protection and whether use of a competitor’s trademark or trade name in metatags constitutes a violation of trademark rights in Canada. (…)
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Canada strengthens the protection of copyright and trademark rights with the enactment of new border enforcement measures
Since January 1st 2015, the sections of the Act to amend the Copyright Act and the Trade-marks Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (“the Act”) with respect to the new border enforcement measures have come into force in Canada. The purpose of the Act is to help Canadian copyright (…)