Copyright Infringement and Witterick Penguin

moral rights: How far will a court go in deciding whether Maltz has economic and moral rights over the dramatic family history she unearthed in Ukraine and then turned into a documentary film with Bird and Sherman help In Canadian law, copyright infringement has usually been defined narrowly as unauthorized reproduction or direct copying; the unattributed borrowing of plots or ideas, even if it might be considered plagiarism in an academic setting, is not necessarily an infringement, according to Globe and Mail. Meanwhile, a creator moral rights under the Copyright Act only include the right to the integrity of the work, and to have one name associated with it. Witterick and Penguin have opposed the application, and have argued that Witterick book, which she originally self-published as a work of non-fiction, is a new, creative retelling of facts that are not protected by copyright. The most notorious violation of integrity occurred in 1982 when the Toronto Eaton Centre tied red Christmas bows around the necks of the Canada geese in the Flight Stop sculpture that hangs at the shopping mall Queen Street entrance. Apart from that famous example, however, there are very few Canadian cases in which a judge has ruled on integrity. Citing his moral rights under the Copyright Act, an Ontario court granted outraged artist Michael Snow an injunction and the bows came down. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.