Judge calls Key Porter’s conduct in copyright case
Tonya Maracle’s six-year-old “legal nightmare” ended recently when an Ontario Superior Court judge awarded her $40,000 in a copyright case against Key Porter. According to The Globe and Mail, the case began in 1998 when Maracle, who specializes in making dream catchers, was approached about participating in a book about the “webbed hoops” and agreed to submit her work to the publisher as long as they credited her and her company. After Key Porter returned the dream catchers, Maracle didn’t hear anything else about it and assumed the project had been cancelled. As Paul Waldie writes in the Globe: “Key Porter released a 127-page book in 1999 called Dream Catchers: Myths and History. It contained 21 pictures of Maracle’s dream catchers, including a full-page picture on the cover. Maracle’s first name was misspelled in the credits and Soaring Eagle [Maracle’s company] wasn’t mentioned.”
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