One of the latest big challenges that the Internet has posed for United States copyright owners comes from Canada, where two companies, iCraveTV and JumpTV, have been seeking to retransmit television programming – much of it American programming – over the Internet.
iCraveTV and JumpTV have created Internet rebroadcast business models based on a perceived “legal void” in the Canadian Copyright Act. In so doing, they have caught the attention of United States companies, who are fearful that in the borderless expanse of cyberspace, a void in the laws of one jurisdiction can quickly become a black hole for the copyright protections intended by another jurisdiction. Copyright holders in the United States worry that Internet retransmission within Canadian borders, no matter what the intent and efforts of the retransmitters, would inevitably make the programming available outside Canada and seriously damage their carefully constructed licensing and distribution networks.
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