Canadian Broadcasting Corp v Conservative Party of Canada

Federal Court of Canada - 13 May 2021

Antonio Turco, CPST Law and CPST Intellectual Property Inc

In the political satire television series Veep, the main character, fictional US vice-president Selina Meyers, threatens a political opponent that she “will destroy you in ways that are so creative, they will honor me for it at the Kennedy Center”. Presumably, Meyers had something more in mind than a negative political advertisement. A recent Canadian decision related to copyright infringement and considered the scope of the ability of a political party to use copyrighted material to criticise an opponent.