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First Conviction Under Anti-Camcording Law

By Richard P.W. Stobbe

Alberta has produced what appears to be Canada’s first anti-camcording conviction. Revisions to the criminal code, which target movie piracy in theatres, were used to obtain a conviction against a Calgary man who was banned from movie theatres for a year and fined $1,500. The convicted man was also prohibited from purchasing or owning video recording [...]

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