“Case management Judge Trent Horne of the Federal Court recently said ‘The Copyright Act is, at the risk of understatement, complex’. His case serves to illuminate several key points of that complexity. Generally, copyright owners need to be added as parties to a lawsuit or their not being added has to be justified. Secondly, the pleadings must satisfy the Court that a licensee has the right to sue. The starting point is that a copyright owner can sue a defendant for copyright infringement and the owner would generally be a party to that lawsuit …” (more)
[Martin Kratz, Slaw, 13 April]
First posted 2022-04-13 15:15:02
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