CMN 2170 Lecture 18: SOCAN Case
3 Mar 2016
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Understand of the basis of the decision of the court in this case. Digital society specifically the internet they completely change the game. Whether or not the service infringes copyrights or self-service photocopiers infringe publishers rights. Its reasonable that the law society of upper canada should expect that they"re enabling copyright infringement. By providing that service if its reasonable to expect the use of that service will engender copyright infringement. Those are the problem solving tools you take from here to the future with you. We also have to deal with empirical materials objective, factual materials. More imp it"s a historical president, therefore, provides us with historical context. To compare a new tech in 1930"s vs new tech now. We"ve never left the issue of regulation, we"ve just examined it with different perspectives. The key substantive (essential) issue in this case (socanada) Socan seeking compensation for massive copyright infringement suffered by their members.
