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Blacklock's Reporter (founded October 2012) is an Ottawa-based Internet publication covering Canadian government administration. It publishes several articles each day, along with book reviews, poetry and guest commentaries.
Type | news website |
---|---|
Format | Online Newspaper |
Publisher | Holly Doan |
Editor | Tom Korski |
Founded | 2012 |
Headquarters | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
Website | blacklocks |
Six reporters, including Tom Korski, banded together to launch the news site.[1] Its name is derived from a Montreal Gazette war correspondent, Thomas Hyland Blacklock (died 1934), who had been head of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery.[2]
In November, 2012, Blacklock's won a dispute with the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery to have its journalists accredited.[3]
Blacklock's won an Ontario Small Claims Court lawsuit over breach of its paywalls.[4]
In November 2016, the Federal Court of Canada rejected an action for breach of copyright by Blacklock's against the Department of Finance of Canada.[5] The Court held the sharing of paywall-protected articles among a relatively small group of people connected with the news item was fair dealing.[6] The Court ordered Blacklock's to pay the Department costs of $65,000, stating that "the litigation should never have been commenced, let alone carried to trial", and that Blacklock's demand for compensation was "based on unwarranted and self-serving assertion of indiscriminate and widespread infringement".[7][8]
Blacklocks has filed several other paywall protection cases that are still awaiting trial.[9]
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