Barristers & Solicitors
March 29, 2016 Nikiforos Iatrou T: 416-947-5072 niatrou@weirfoulds.com
VIA E-MAIL File 17083.00001 Jos LaRose Competition Tribunal 90 Sparks Street, Suite 600 Ottawa, ON K1P 5B4
Dear Mr. LaRose: Re: Stargrove Entertainment Inc. v. Universal et al. (CT-2015-014) We write further to the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic’s application for leave to intervene in this matter. Stargrove has no objection to the Clinic being granted leave to intervene for all of the reasons the Clinic cites in its motion materials. Most importantly, it would appear to Stargrove that the Clinic would be able to provide the Tribunal with views about copyright policy that transcend Stargrove’s interest in this matter but that nonetheless may inform how the Tribunal approaches the issues raised by Stargrove in its application.
In our respectful view, the matter of the Clinic's intervention could likely be determined on the written record without the need for an oral hearing (subject, of course, to any submissions the Tribunal receives from the Respondents).
Yours truly, WeirFoulds LLP
Nikiforos Iatrou NI/BR c: Mahmud Jamal and Peter Franklyn, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP W. Michael G. Osborne and Wendy Sun, Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP Chris Hersh and Casey Chisick, Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP David Fewer, CIPPIC Sangeetha Punniyamoorthy and Thomas Kurys, Dimock Stratton LLP 9097433.1
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