Federal appeal court rules Libeo directly involved in infringing Videotron copyright in hotels

By Ahmad Hathout OTTAWA – The Federal Court of Appeal has granted Videotron an appeal that sought to implicate the third player in a case allegedly involving a trio of broadcasting companies that redistributed its channels in hotels without its consent. Videotron appealed a decision by the Federal Court last April that found only two of three accused companies – Technologies Konek inc. and Coopérative de câblodistribution Hill Valley, but not Libeo – were involved in an illegal scheme that retransmitted a single Videotron signal to multiple hotel rooms over a period before February 2021, when Videotron first filed its...