Why the Federal Court set top box ruling threatens Canada’s innovation balance

f the decision stands, the case has the potential to create a Canadian chill over new, disruptive technologies leaving courts to decide what can and cannot be preloaded onto computers and other electronic devices.

With Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains launching a major new initiative last week on innovation, he will need to keep a close eye on a court case that could alter the innovation balance and convince some companies to stay out of the Canadian market.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

June 20, 2016

OTTAWA—The ability to record television programs is a feature that most consumers take for granted today, but when the Sony Betamax was first introduced in the 1970s, it revolutionized television and sparked high-profile lawsuits by the major Hollywood studios who wanted to block its availability....

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