June 3, 2015 – Ottawa, Ontario – Industry Canada
Industry Minister James Moore today announced the appointment of Justice Robert A. Blair as Chair of the Copyright Board of Canada, effective immediately.
Mr. Justice Blair was appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario in November 2003, after serving for 12 years as a trial judge on the Superior Court. In both capacities, he has presided over matters involving almost all areas of the law, with a particular emphasis as a trial judge on cases on the Commercial List in Toronto and a continuing involvement with such cases at the appellate level.
The Copyright Board of Canada is an economic regulatory body empowered to establish, either mandatorily or at the request of an interested party, the royalties to be paid for the use of copyrighted works when the administration of such copyright is entrusted to a collective-administration society.
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