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Copyright: How much is too much?

By Richard P.W. Stobbe

Lawyers are often asked how much copying will constitute copyright infringement.  Of course, every good lawyer will answer “It depends.”  The recent Harry Potter case illustrates this issue: Author J.K. Rowling claimed that a plan to publish a lexicon (essentially an alphabetized reference listing Harry Potter characters, names and other information) would be a violation of copyright in [...]

Full post as published by Intellectual Property in Canada (ipblog.ca) on September 16, 2008 (boomark / email).