David Kent is a partner in the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch LLP and a member of its Litigation, Knowlaw and Competition Groups.

David Kent is a partner in the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch and a member of its Litigation, Knowlaw and Competition Groups.

The controversial issue of Internet television broadcasting has taken another sharp change of direction. It may be worthwhile to take a deep breath and take stock of where things now stand.
When iCraveTV folded its tent and shut down in early 2000, it appeared that the issue had gone away. But the appearance of wannabe Internet broadcaster JumpTV that summer put the issue squarely back on the front burner.
JumpTV, like iCraveTV before it, wants to take over-the-air TV signals and stream them over the Internet. The problem is that JumpTV does not want to ask for permission from either the broadcasters or the program owners involved. Instead, it wants to use the compulsory licence provisions of section 31 of the Copyright Act to unilaterally retransmit broadcast signals in return for paying a royalty set by the Copyright Board.

David Kent is a litigation partner and a member of the KNOWlaw and Competition groups in the Toronto law firm McMillan Binch. He represented the Canadian Association of Broadcasters in the Copyright Board hearings described in this article….

David Kent is a litigation partner and a member of the KNOWlaw Group in the Toronto law firm McMillan Binch. This is the first in an occasional series of articles on copyright reform….

David Kent is a litigation partner and a member of the KNOWlaw Group of the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch….