Entertainment Software Ass'n v Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada
Entertainment Software Ass'n v Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada [2012] 2 SCR 231, 2012 SCC 32 is a landmark Supreme Court of Canada judgement that clarified the nature of and relationship between, the bundle of rights created for copyright owners under section 3(1) of the Copyright Act of Canada. In particular, the Supreme Court considered the relationship between the reproduction and communication rights under the Copyright Act, and applied the principle of technological neutrality to hold that downloading a work engaged only the reproduction right, and not the communication right.