Remember how the CBC brought a copyright infringement suit against the Conservative party with about 10 days left to go in the 2019 federal election campaign? We were so young then! The proceeding has not received much attention lately, but it is still underway, and I noticed this week that it has taken some turns while we have been cowering in our dens from a virus.
The CBC claimed back in October that Conservative campaign ads had made improper use of short clips from panel shows and from a party leader’s debate. The allegedly questionable ads were just like any other repulsive political ad of the last 50 years, and the “fair dealing” principle in copyright obviously ought to have the broadest possible latitude in such a situation. But the CBC had the chutzpah to argue that the campaign ads might lead people to think that the corporation was biased in favour of the Conservatives.
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