A lot of ink has been spilled lately over reports that
Canadian content owners and broadcasters, led by Bell Media but including other content players such as Cineplex and broadcaster / ISPs (Rogers, Shaw), are finally proposing a solution to the problem of rogue offshore websites streaming pirated content to Canadian audiences.
Not exact matches
Measuring and controlling the service for
Canadian content would probably be next to impossible, but it's actually the money issue that's the bigger problem for YouTube's
owner, Google.
All
content in this blog is the property of the blog
owner and guest authors and protected by
Canadian, U.S. and international copyright laws.
Am I right in thinking that
Canadian IP, contract and criminal law do not differ substantially from US law on the relevant points, i.e. it would be hard for the original site
owner to do much at law if someone scraped the
content?