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Site blocking orders come to Canada: GoldTV.biz

In an important decision released Friday, November 13, 2019, the Federal Court of Canada issued the first Canadian site blocking order against sites that predominantly facilitate copyright infringement.

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Paradigm shift 2: More recommended changes to Canadian copyright law announced

On June 3, 2019, Parliament's Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology released its Statutory Review of the Copyright Act. Section 92 of the Copyright Act mandates that the Act must be reviewed every five years by a parliamentary committee, and this Statutory Review was the first comprehensive review conducted since the overhaul of Canada's copyright legislation in 2012 with the adoption of the Copyright Modernization Act.

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