Gestion collective
Conjectures on governance and wholesale copyright licensing
The role of CMOs is to provide users with licences to use their repertoire. They offer such repertoire licences to those seeking often unlimited access to their catalogue. Describing them as wholesalers allows us to draw a few inferences about their role and functioning, with emphasis on the supplier/shareholder, member/non-member, owner/user dualities. Lire la suite
Collective Societies in a Transactional World
In CBC v. SODRAC, the Supreme Court decided that arbitration decisions rendered by the Copyright Board under s. 70.2 of the Copyright Act were not mandatory. This raises interesting questions regarding the interaction between users and collective societies under s. 70.1 ff.: To what extent does the decision apply to collective societies beyond SODRAC? Is […] Lire la suite
Réinventer la Commission du droit d’auteur
À l’aide de comparaisons avec certains processus nationaux – p. ex. la CCN, le Tribunal de la concurrence, les audiences liées au Règlement des médicaments brevetés (avis de confirmité), etc. – et internationaux, ce groupe d’experts pourrait se donner une idée du fonctionnement possible d’une Commission « modernisée » du droit d’auteur au Canada. Ils pourraient examiner […] Lire la suite
“Mandatory” Tariffs
The majority reasons established that the power of the Copyright Board to set the terms of a licence under s. 70.2 of the Copyright Act does not include the power to bind the parties to those terms: in the absence of clear authority that this is Parliament’s intent, “the burdens of a license should not […] Lire la suite
Gestion collective: L’après Sté. Radio-Canada c. SODRAC
Dans l’arrêt Société Radio‑Canada c. SODRAC 2003 Inc., la Cour Suprême ne s’est pas contentée d’arrimer neutralité technologique et évaluation. Le Juge Rothstein, pour la majorité, a ajouté que les licences octroyées par la Commission du droit d’auteur sur le fondement de l’article 70.2. ne sont pas revêtues d’un caractère obligatoire à l’égard des utilisateurs, […] Lire la suite
Collective administration
Président de panel: Ariel Katz Participants: Ariel Katz, Adriane Porcin, Jonathan Band, Mariana Giorgetti Valente, Shamnad Basheer, Amba Kak. Le congrès en images Lire la suite
Conjectures on Governance and Wholesale Licensing
The relationship between copyright management organizations (CMO) and their members is a fairly unusual one, at least by the standard of more ordinary corporations. With examples such as the creation of BMI or the Daft Punk case in mind, one could say that conflicts born of their interaction actually built the current landscape of collective […] Lire la suite
Gestion collective et gouvernance
Dans son ouvrage intitulé Le droit d’auteur : l’idéologie et le système, Thomas Paris décrit la gestion collective comme la composante gestionnaire, tout autant qu’un élément structurant, du système de droit d’auteur. Elle est, de fait, devenue incontournable pour la mise en œuvre de certains droits de nature économique et nous l’aborderons ici sous l’angle de […] Lire la suite
Of Guilds and Men: Copyright Workarounds in the Cinematographic Industry
The motion picture industry utilizes a varied collection of more or less formal mechanisms for dealing with the collective nature of audiovisual works, ranging from collective bargaining to legal presumptions. What these instances of copyright workarounds have in common is that they are all about circumventing traditional notions of authorship (the right to be deemed the author of […] Lire la suite
Of Guilds and Men
The motion picture industry utilizes a varied collection of more or less formal mechanisms for dealing with the collective nature of audiovisual works, ranging from collective bargaining to legal presumptions. What these instances of copyright workarounds have in common is that they are all about circumventing traditional notions of authorship (the right to be deemed the author of […] Lire la suite