Reframing Copyright’s Key Exclusive Rights in the Age of Access: Lessons from SOCAN v. ESA (SCC 2022)
Dr. Cheryl Foong was a Visiting Scholar at Osgoode Hall Law School in fall 2023. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Business and Law at Curtin University in Australia, and an expert on copyright law and dissemination technologies. Her work was cited with approval by the Supreme Court of Canada in the ground-breaking case of 2022 SCC 30, which was the focus of her presentation.
Dr. Foong's parsed the reasoning of the Supreme Court of Canada, commending its efforts to avoid the overlap and duplication of copyright's exclusive rights while also querying the future role and relevance of the reproduction right.
A Zoom recording of this hybrid presentation is available .
