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Date: 20040719

Docket: A-203-04

Present: EVANS J.A.

BETWEEN:

BMG CANADA INC., EM! MUSIC CANADA, A DIVISION OF EMI GROUP CANADA INC., SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (CANADA) INC., UNIVERSAL MUSIC CANADA INC., WARNER MUSIC CANADA LTD., BMG MUSIC, ARISTA RECORDS,INC., . ZOMBA RECORDING CORPORATION, EMI MUSIC SWEDEN AB, CAPITOL RECORDS, INC., CHRYSALIS RECORDS LIMITED, VIRGIN RECORDS LIMITED, SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT INC., SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (UK) INC., UMG RECORDINGS, INC., MERCURY RECORDS LIMITED AND WEA INTERNATIONAL INC. . Appellants (Plaintiffs)

and

JOHN DOE, JANE DOE AND ALL THOSE PERSONS WHO ARE INFRINGING COPYRIGHT IN THE PLAINTIFFS , SOUND RECORDINGS (Defendants)

and

SHAW COMMUNICATIONS INC., ROGERSCABLE COMMUNICATIONS INC.~ BELL CANADA, TELUS INC., AND VIDEOTRON LTEE. Respondents , (Third Party Respondents)

and

CANADIAN INTERNET POLICY AND PUBLIC INTEREST CLINIC Intervener

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ORDER

UPON motionspursuant to Rules 109 and 369, by BusinessSoftware Alliance, Canadian

Alliance Against SoftwareTheft, EntertainmentSoftware Alliance and Software& Infonnation

Industry Association("BSA") and by The CanadianMotion Picture Distributors Association

("CMPDA") for leaveto intervenein the appeal;

WHEREAS the test applicablefor the exerciseof the Court's discretionunder Rule

I 09(I) hasbeen established by the jurisprudence,in particular CanadianUnion of Public

Employees (Airline Division) v. Canadian Airlines International Ltd, , [2000] F.C.J. No. 220

(F.C.A.) andApotex Inc. v. Eli Lilly CanadaInc. (2001), 11 C.P.R.(4th) 486 (F.C.A.);

AND WHEREAS the proposedinterveners have only ajurisprud.entia}interestin the

outcomeof this appeal;

AND WHEREAS, insofar as the appealraises questions of copyright law, the questions

primarily concerncopyright law as appliedto recordedmusic, not to motion picturesor software,

the productsin which the interveners'clients have copyright;

AND WHEREAS, insofar asthe appealdoes raise more generalquestions of copyright law, the appellants,respondents and intervenerare well placedto arguethem and the proposed intervenersare unlikely to bring a different perspectiveon them that will assistthe Court; Page:3

THE COURT HEREBY ORDERS that the motions are dismissed.

"John M. Evans'~ J.A.

that th. alia. dOCUIBBntis a true MiIEaY'COt," the original issued dayof Datedtbi$~ dayof

MiChael. KoWalchuk Reg\stry Officer Agent du greffe

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