What constitutes infringement of a copyrighted work?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hutton v. Canadian Broadcasting Corp., 1989 CanLII 3311 (AB QB):
We read the following at p. 631 of Seltzer v. Sunbrock on the subject of what constitutes infringement: “In order to infringe, under the Copyright Act, the production on the stage must obviously tell the same story as the copyrighted drama. If it tells another story or acts another sequence of events, it is outside the protection afforded the registered work …”
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