Bell asking appeal court to argue copyright ‘misuse’ in $400M movie studio lawsuit

By Ahmad Hathout OTTAWA – Bell is asking the Federal Court of Appeal this week to allow it to argue in court that movie studios have allegedly been misusing Canada’s notice-and-notice copyright system to extract disproportionate sums of money from service providers and subscribers. The telecom has asked the appeal court Monday to allow it to argue that the studios are allegedly engaging in “copyright misuse,” after the studios last year filed a $400-million lawsuit alleging the telecom failed to deliver nearly 40,000 copyright infringement notices to its subscribers. Bell is appealing from a Federal Court decision late last month...