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19 Aug 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
If a principle of nineteenth century constitutional understanding was that no legislation favoring a particular social class was legitimate, as Howard Gillman argues in The Constitution Besieged, Zackin and Thurston nonetheless find that Congress often justified federal intervention in bankruptcy in class terms (47). [read post]
8 Aug 2023, 11:18 am by Howard Knopf
. *** Howard Knopf is a policy provocateur who, after 43 years, is no longer “practising law”. [read post]
30 May 2022, 2:12 pm by Howard Knopf
So, Ariel and I were honored to present our keynote talks at ABC which are available here: •        Howard Knopf ABC Keynote May 25, 2022 •        Ariel Katz ABC Keynote May 25, 2022 These slide shows contain multiple useful links in support of the above. [read post]
10 Aug 2021, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The early thrust of antitrust law, led by Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, was to stimulate competition among producers by dismantling uncompetitive agreements among large companies. [read post]
3 Aug 2021, 2:22 pm by Howard Knopf
  “Veni, vidi, vici”: Julius Caesar, 47 BC The more than ten-year-old effort by Access Copyright (“AC”) to impose a “mandatory tariff” through the Copyright Board on Canadian educational institutions is over in a quick, decisive, and devastating unanimous judgment from Justice Rosalie Abellaof the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”). 85 years of legislative policy and SCC jurisprudence are re-affirmed, vindicated, and continued. [read post]
3 Aug 2021, 6:28 am by Michael Geist
The Supreme Court of Canada brought a lengthy legal battle between Access Copyright and York University to an end last week, issuing a unanimous verdict written by retiring Justice Rosalie Abella that resoundingly rejected the copyright collective’s claims that its tariff is mandatory, finding that it had no standing to file a lawsuit for copyright infringement on behalf of its members, and concluding that a lower court fair dealing analysis that favoured Access Copyright was tainted with… [read post]
15 May 2019, 3:49 pm by Howard Knopf
The Committee simply ignored the testimony of those with whom it disagreed, including, as Michael Geist points out, Professors Jeremy de Beer, Ariel Katz, Nick Mount, Meera Nair along with author Cory Doctorow and me, lawyer Howard Knopf. [read post]
2 Dec 2018, 2:59 pm by Howard Knopf
@mgeist https://t.co/Vs15ArFg3N— Howard Knopf (@howardknopf) December 2, 20183/3 For a factually up to date take on fair dealing in Canada, see @MGeist’s excellent recent series on his blog, e.g. on how books are rapidly declining as part of coursepack materials  https://t.co/jjnGN6uA10   @MGeist #CHPC #INDU— Howard Knopf (@howardknopf) December 2, 2018 [read post]
29 Nov 2018, 1:23 pm by Howard Knopf
Howard Knopf Speaking Notes for Senate BANC Committee November 21, 2018Here is the webcast of this hearing. [read post]
5 Sep 2018, 4:51 pm by Howard Knopf
 On this point, I’ve been quoted on August 22, 2018 in the very paywalled WireReport as follows:“I can’t comment on any particular settlement because I don’t know thespecific facts,” Howard Knopf, a lawyer at Macera and Jarzyna, said in anemail. [read post]
29 Aug 2018, 1:56 pm by Howard Knopf
”  I was asked about this for the WireReport story and was quoted as follows: “I can’t comment on any particular settlement because I don’t know thespecific facts,” Howard Knopf, a lawyer at Macera and Jarzyna, said in anemail. [read post]
11 Jun 2018, 3:53 pm by Sandy Levinson
  Some of them, like Peter Edelman, I wholeheartedly agree with; others, like Philip Howard, who draws plaudits for his attacks on the sclerotic civil service and bureaucratic red-tape, I& [read post]
28 Jun 2016, 2:37 pm by Howard Knopf
The ALAI symposium on the Copyright Board of Canada – Which Way Ahead took place on May 25, 2016 in Ottawa. [read post]
25 Nov 2015, 1:49 pm by Howard Knopf
The decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in CBC v SODRAC will be released Thursday Nov. 26, 2015 at 9:45 AM https://t.co/ZpeQwvRQMq— Howard Knopf (@howardknopf) November 24, 2015The decision will appear here at 9:45 AM or shortly thereafter. [read post]
3 Oct 2015, 8:34 pm by Howard Knopf
Ariel Katz who provided an extended metaphor about copyright and coming of age and why stakeholders need not any longer act like or be treated as children.This will all be archived, I am told, for those not fortunate enough to have been there.Here's my modest contribution about the Copyright Board, which kicked off a panel that I helped to organize that included Justice Roger Hughes, Gilles Daigle, Stephen Spong and which was moderated by… [read post]