In 2015, the Munich District Court dealt with the staging of the play "Baal" by Bertolt Brecht in Munich Residenztheater. The heirs of the author claimed that the director of the play, Frank Castorf, a giant of German "Regietheater" (Director's Theater) had taken too much liberty in working with...

This article analyses Canada’s approach to the problem of unlocateable copyright owners, more commonly called the problem of orphan works. Section 77 of the Copyright Act empowers the Copyright Board of Canada to issue a non-exclusive licence to an applicant whose reasonable efforts to locate...

During the past 20 years, more or less, copyright has evolved from a relatively obscure area of specialized legal practice to a topic at the forefront of public consciousness and policy debates. This metamorphosis might be due to technolog- ical innovation, social practices, commercial...