For the first time in Alberta’s history — and only the second time in Canada’s history — police have charged someone for allegedly making a recording in a movie theatre.
On the afternoon of December 21, Calgary police got a call about a “suspicious person” at the Empire Studio 16 Country Hills movie theatre. Police went to the theatre and spoke with a security guard who’d been investigating the suspect for the past six months for the Canadian Motion Picture Distribution Association. Police say they went into a theatre and saw the suspect in the back, allegedly recording with a concealed camcorder.
Twenty-year-old Richard Craig Lissaman has been charged with one count of unauthorized recording of a movie — a charge enabled by a June 2007 amendment to the Criminal Code aimed at stopping movie piracy.
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