BMG Canada Inc v Doe
BMG v. Doe is an important Canadian copyright law, file-sharing, and privacy case, where an Ontario Court refused to allow the the Canadian Recording Industry Association and several major record labels from obtaining the subscriber information of ISP customers alleged to have been infringing copyright. Judgment was delivered in April 2004, in Toronto, Ontario. The plaintiffs have appealed, with the appellate trial expected by the summer of 2005.
Citation: BMG Canada Inc. v. John Doe (F.C.), [2004] 3 F.C. 241, 2004 FC 488