Hosted at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society (CLTS), CIPPIC advocates in the public interest on issues involving the intersection of law and technology. CIPPIC was represented by Jeremy de Beer, a Full Professor at the Common Law Section and a CLTS Faculty member, and CIPPIC Director David Fewer.
involves the management of the Province of Ontario鈥檚 electronic land registry system. The public is currently able to obtain copies of land surveys and other documents through this system for a fee, but no money is distributed to the surveyors who prepared the documents in the first place. The case is being brought forward by Keatley Surveying Ltd. on behalf of approximately 350 land surveyors whose plans were scanned and made available online.
Professors de Beer and Fewer, for CIPPIC, argued that the government cannot take away authors鈥 rights by republishing other peoples鈥 work. CIPPIC says that Crown copyright 鈥渋s not a way for the government to expropriate, in a formal or colloquial sense, other people鈥檚 copyrights,鈥 and 鈥渋nvites a more common-sense approach鈥.
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