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Decision 2025-02-28 · Open coverageBCFSA found professional misconduct because the buyer's realtor relied only on title and the seller's disclosure without checking local authorities or the Archaeology Branch, missing a protected archaeological site that blocked the buyer's planned development. The $5,000 consent penalty illustrates why cultural heritage restrictions can require independent property inquiries even when routine conveyancing documents show no warning, although the order established no universal search requirement.
Published 2026-10-25 · Open coverageApplications for Celebrate Canada funding close November 23, 2026. Cultural organizers face specific rules about public access, event dates and eligible expenses.
Decision 2026-09-28 · Open coverageThe Tribunal struck new allegations about RCMP complaint handling and disability because they fell outside the referred discrimination complaint. No discrimination finding was made.
Published 2026-10-24 · Open coverageGordo's Easier has hypnotic beats, heartbreaking melodies and a haunting presence. Nothing dominates, and that restraint gives the title a meaning all its own.
Published 2026-10-24 · Open coverageCanadian Heritage specifies $4.975 million in fiscal 2026 to 2027 sport support for Rugby Canada and separate funding for four international matches.
Published 2026-10-24 · Open coverageCanadian Heritage announced $400,000 for sound, lighting, accessibility and safety upgrades at the Cape Breton theatre.
Published 2026-10-24 · Open coverageCanadian Heritage announced more than $156 million for 62 national sport organizations in the 2026 to 2027 year, including an additional $60 million to support participation, athletes and safe sport.
Decision 2013-12-23 · Open coverageThe Supreme Court upheld a qualitative, holistic assessment of substantial copying in Cinar v. Robinson. Differences between two television series didn't erase the combination of protected expression taken.
Decision 2022-07-15 · Open coverageCanada's Supreme Court rejected an additional making available royalty for the same online stream, distinguishing communication from downloading and reproduction.
Decision 2015-11-26 · Open coverageThe Supreme Court held that broadcast-incidental copies engage reproduction rights, while sending the Copyright Board's valuation back for a technologically neutral assessment.
Decision 2002-03-28 · Open coverageThe Supreme Court upheld British Columbia's challenged heritage conservation provisions as valid provincial law while making clear that the appeal concerned division of powers, not every possible Indigenous rights issue.
Decision 1989-04-27 · Open coverageThe Supreme Court held that Quebec's restrictions on advertisements directed at children engaged freedom of expression but were justified under the applicable Charters. The majority allowed Quebec's appeal.
Decision 2005-11-17 · Open coverageThe Supreme Court rejected a passing-off claim based on functional LEGO brick features after patent protection expired, while confirming the federal statutory passing-off provision's validity.
Decision 2004-03-04 · Open coverageIn CCH, the Supreme Court upheld the Law Society's controlled research copying, explaining originality as skill and judgment and identifying factors for assessing fair dealing.
Decision 2002-03-28 · Open coverageThe Supreme Court distinguished an artist's reproduction rights from moral rights and purchasers' ownership of physical posters in Théberge. The majority allowed the galleries' appeal.
Decision 2026-04-02 · Open coverageHistoric maps, territorial relationships and culturally modified trees changed the result of a major Aboriginal title appeal.
Decision 2021-07-30 · Open coverageThe Supreme Court distinguished voluntary collective licences from infringement proceedings, leaving York University's fair dealing questions unresolved.
Decision 2021-10-29 · Open coverageThe Supreme Court's divided Ward decision examines where professional comedy, dignity and Quebec's discrimination law meet. The majority allowed the appeal, while four judges dissented.
Decision 2026-06-29 · Open coverageThe Federal Court of Appeal dismissed SOCAN's attempt to challenge preliminary Copyright Board rulings before the online audiovisual tariff proceeding had concluded. It did not decide the royalty rates.
Decision 2026-05-29 · Open coverageThe settlement date determines when royalties come due and when interest increases. The Federal Court of Appeal ordered the Copyright Board to revisit its unexplained 2019 payment date.
Decision 2012-07-12 · Open coverageThe Supreme Court rejected a separate SOCAN communication tariff for permanent downloads of games already subject to reproduction rights, applying technological neutrality.
Published 2026-10-23 · Open coverageCanadian Heritage extends Michele McKenzie’s interim leadership of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 for up to two more years.
Decision 2026-09-09 · Open coverageThe BC Human Rights Tribunal declined to dismiss a film makeup artist complaint concerning allegedly racialised exclusion from set work and union decisions about a makeup working group. The allegations must be tested at a hearing.
Published 2026-10-22 · Open coverageFederal research funders have set January 1, 2027 as the award date threshold for revised publication rules, bringing rights retention and immediate access into submission planning.
Published 2026-10-22 · Open coverageThe 2027 Cultural Development Fund adds grants of up to $2,500 with simpler requirements. Applications close November 30, 2026.
Decision 2006-10-12 · Open coverageThe Supreme Court held that publishers couldn't rely on newspaper collective copyright to republish freelance articles in databases that stripped them from the original newspaper context. The CD-ROM editions preserved the collective work and were permitted.
Published 2026-10-22 · Open coverageIndustrial design protection addresses a product's distinctive appearance, not the method that makes it work. For designers, registration and ownership arrangements affect whether a useful idea becomes a defensible asset.
Published 2026-10-22 · Member analysisFederal support for travelling museum exhibitions recognizes the value of reaching communities beyond a collection's home institution. Planning requires more than shipping artefacts and booking a venue.
Published 2026-10-22 · Open coverageA Canadian writer doesn't need a publishing deal to have copyright in an original manuscript. But the contracts and permissions that follow can affect who may reproduce, adapt and distribute it.
Published 2026-10-22 · Member analysisPublic heritage funding supports preservation and access, including Indigenous cultural heritage. Every selection also raises questions about who defines a collection's importance and whose account is missing.
Published 2026-10-21 · Open coverageThe Canadian Museum of History says the Children's Museum will remain open until March 2027, with a City in Action experience planned for February 2027.
Published 2026-10-21 · Open coverageCanadian Heritage says 36 Canadian organizations participated in a China trade mission that yielded seven agreements worth more than $4.2 million.
Decision 2025-12-24 · Open coverageIn 2025 CB 22, the Copyright Board refused to amend interim television retransmission royalties for 2024 to 2028. A revised historical tariff did not automatically require a change to the interim rates.
Decision 2026-03-27 · Open coverageIn 2026 CB 1, the Copyright Board approved SOCAN Tariff 18 for recorded music used for dancing during 2023 to 2025. It applied an inflation adjustment while distinguishing the statutory tariff from individual licences.
Decision 2026-05-08 · Open coverageIn 2026 CB 2, the Copyright Board approved the SOCAN popular music concert tariff for 2025 to 2027 while adjusting the minimum fees. The established 3% royalty formula remained in place.
Decision 2026-05-29 · Open coverageIn 2026 CB 4, the Copyright Board approved revised music royalty charges for aircraft use during 2026 to 2028, including separate per seat amounts for ground use and in flight programming.