Canadian creative life and law
A separate case-card repository for all eight Humanities subjects. Reviewed decisions receive a short holding, while source-confirmed identities are labelled without inventing outcomes.
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Held. The Court's five-to-four majority set aside a second communication tariff for durable game downloads whose reproduction rights had been addressed.
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Held. Functional features of LEGO's interlocking brick system couldn't be protected indefinitely through a passing off claim after the underlying patents expired.
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Held. A Supreme Court decision about copying in a law library helped define originality and confirmed that fair dealing is a user's right, not a narrow exception reserved for personal research.
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Held. Moving an existing printed image onto canvas raised a copyright question about reproduction.
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Held. The Supreme Court upheld British Columbia's authority to regulate heritage protection involving culturally modified trees.
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Held. The Supreme Court recognized commercial advertising as protected expression while upholding Quebec's restrictions on advertising directed at children under 13.