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The article focuses on developments in Canadian copyright law during the period 2013-2014 with reference to judgments issued by the Canada Supreme Court in several court cases. Court cases discussed include Cinar Corp. v. Robinson that addressed issues such as infringement, compensatory damages and punitive damages, fair dealing issues and case Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser, in which Canadian canola farmer Percy Schmeiser filed lawsuit against agricultural biotechnology company Monsanto.

The article focuses on the issue of unreasonable interpretations of law in Canadian courts. Topics discussed include the role of reasonableness as the standard of review of administrative action in Canada, case Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council that addressed the grant of judicial deference to a government agency's interpretation of a statute and Canada Supreme Court case Alberta (Education) v. Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright) based on issue of fair dealing.

The authors conveys their concerns about the amendment of the Copyright Modernization Act in 2012 in Canada to include a series of new users' rights such as education as a fair dealing purpose. Topics mentioned include the position of the Canadian Copyright Institute (CCI) on fair dealing, a diagram illustrating CCI nine-member Board of Directors in 2013, and issue addressed by the Alberta Supreme Court in 2012 about copying short excerpts for classroom use.

The article examines how Canadian courts would decide on the copyright infringement case of Oracle America, Inc. v. Google Inc. It notes that Canadian courts would grant copyright protection to Oracle's Java Application Programming Interface (API) on the basis that it is an original work that required skill and judgment to be created. It cites that Canadian courts may also refuse copyright protection for an API where the monopoly contradicts distinction between ideas and expression.

Information about the 2008 Canadian Library Association annual conference held in Canada is presented. The primary theme of the conference is on the development of relationship between libraries and publishing industry. Topics include on the policies formulation for books and magazine publishing, copyright and property right access, foreign ownership and globalization. Rowland Lorimer is recognized as the key speaker at the conference.

The article examines the features of the Canadian copyright law and how it provides protection and benefits to Inuit artists. It focuses on the section of the law that refers to artistic works imitated or reproduced and used as designs on certain useful objects. A discussion on the provisions and limitations of the industrial design law that is purported to provide protection to artistic works used in industrial designs is also presented. Moreover, it discusses the requirements in applying for a copyright, control or ownership of the copyrighted art work and licensing of the copyrighted material. .

The article focuses on the "Copyright and Fair Dealing: Guidelines for Documentary Filmmakers" (the Guidelines) released by the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC). It mentions that the Guidelines was compared to the "Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use" (the CSM Statement). It says that the Guidelines could be used by documentary filmmakers to understand copyright protection law and on how to use the exceptions found on the Copyright Act of Canada.

The article discusses concerns over Fair Dealing in Canada and piracy which resulted from opened access. Topics discussed include the need for copyright protective efforts to focus on piracy although there have been suggestions that piracy is not economically threatening, the imbalanced copyright law in favour of copyright holders and the need to avoid lawsuits against public and educational libraries and to stop panicking about the changes allowed by digital access to information.

The article reports on the disputes between universities in Canada over the use of copyrighted material and fees for online content, while the U.S. awaits fair-use ruling. Universities in Canada have decided to break their ties with Access Copyright as the copyright clearing house seeks to increase its rate. U.S. Publishers Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and SAGE Publications filed a suit against Georgia University for unauthorized distribution of copyrighted materials.

The author focuses on the effect of the updated Canadian copyright law to educational and trade publishers in the country. Topics include the adoption of the Fair Dealing Guidelines by the Council of the Ministers of Education, the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, and Colleges and Institutes Canada, the report of nonprofit Access Copyright, and the decline in the quality and quantity of content for students.

The article discusses the impact of the 2012 Canadian Copyright Modernization Act on Canadian publishers of educational material. Topics include the expansion of the number of fair use situations to include education, parody and satire; comments from Erin Creasey, president of the education licensing organization Association of Canadian Publishers; and claims that the education exception has caused what publishers term a significant decrease in textbook orders from college bookstores.

The article discusses changes to Canadian copyright law for access to education materials, focusing on Canada's 2012 fair dealing clause. Topics include claims by publishers and authors that the laws have hurt their businesses; controversy surrounding the addition of education, parody and satire to the list of uses for which material can be freely reproduced; and collective licensing agreements held by educational institutions.

The article discusses the Supreme Court of Canada's ruling in the 2012 copyright law case Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) v. Bell Canada which deals with the fair use copyright doctrine and the laws governing the Internet and copyrights in Canada. The music copyright royalty cases Rogers Communications v. SOCAN and Entertainment Software Association and Entertainment Software Association of Canada v. SOCAN are also mentioned.

The article discusses the top 20 intellectual property legal cases of 2012 as compiled by the "Managing Intellectual Property" journal, including information on cases involving Australian copyright laws, American patent laws, and the prevention of parallel imports in Russia. Legal matters related to ambiguous patents in Canada, the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry in the European Union, and the fair use copyright doctrine in Canada are also examined.

The article states that Canada passed the Copyright Modernization Act on June 29, 2012 which updates laws to adapt to the Internet which includes anti-circumvention measures pertaining to digital locks and expansion of fair dealing to include parody, satire, and education.

The article focuses on the Canadian Supreme Court which is hearing five copyright protection cases in December 2011. It states the cases all stem from rulings by the economic regulatory body Copyright Board of Canada (CBC). It comments the cases involve fair dealing, online music sales, the download of video games that include music, and the compensation of recording artists. Law professor Michael Geist mentions the CBC's rulings are often highly contested and end up subject to judicial review.

This article reports a recently issued unanimous ruling in favor of users' rights in the area of copyright by the Supreme Court in Canada. Ruling 9-0 on March 4, 2004, the Court decided in the case of CCH Canadian Ltd. versus Law Society of Upper Canada that in selected cases of research, the copying of printed material is not copyright infringement. CCH Canada, together with Thomson Professional Publishing Co. and Canada Law Book Inc., had alleged that copying by the Law Society's Great Library on behalf of lawyers seeking documents for research constituted copyright infringement. The ruling sets a minimum bar for fair use, or fair dealing, as it is known in Canada, within Canada's copyright framework.