How your Copyright application is processed
The Copyright and Industrial Design Branch processes your application upon receipt.
You can obtain further information concerning your application for registration by:
Telephone: (819) 997-1936
Fax: (819) 953-7620
If you have already obtained a registration number from our office and you would like
further information concerning your file, please indicate your registration number
when making any new request for service relating to your file.
Stages:
Your application is considered complete when all the information is received and the
fees are paid pursuant to the Copyright Act and Regulations. Applications are kept
in the order received, files are created and assigned numbers whereupon they are forwarded
to the copyright reviewer.
| How we'll inform you... |
Time limit |
Fees |
| You are not informed at this point. |
2 weeks |
If submitted on-line $50
In any other case $65 |
A copyright reviewer checks the application to ensure that the information provided by
the applicant is clear and accurate. If there are any questions, the reviewer will send a
report to the applicant or their agent requesting clarification. Some corrections may be
made by telephone.
| How we'll inform you... |
Time limit
| Fees |
| Depending on the extent of the corrections and at the reviewer's
discretion, the applicant is informed of the corrections by telephone or is sent
a written report. |
1 week |
none |
The copyright reviewer assigns a registration number by entering the information
provided by the applicant in the automated register, prints the certificate, carries
out a final quality control check and sends it to the client.
| How we'll inform you... |
Time limit |
Fees |
| You will receive your Registration Certificate by mail. |
1 week |
none |
At the client's request, a certificate of correction will be issued should a clerical
error appear on an original registration certificate.
| How we'll inform you... |
Time limit |
Fees |
| You will receive your Registration Certificate by mail. |
2 days |
Client error:
If submitted on-line $50
In any other case $65 |
Your application will be sent to revision and then to registration upon approval,
on an accelerated basis.
| How we'll inform you... |
Time limit |
Fees |
| You will receive your Registration Certificate by mail. |
3 days |
$65 |
Upon receipt of the original document or a certified true copy of the document to be
registered, the Copyright Office staff verifies the authenticity of the documents, enters
the information in the computer and issues a file number.
| How we'll inform you... |
Time limit |
Fees |
| You are not informed unless certain details are missing. |
4 weeks |
$65 |
Copies or extracts from the Register, or copies of certificates, licences or other
documents will be provided.
| How we'll inform you... |
Time limit |
Fees |
| You will receive your photocopies by mail. |
2 days |
$0.50 per page
Providing a copy in paper form of a document, for each page
a) where the user of the service makes the copy using Copyright Office equipment....$0.50
b) where the Copyright Office makes the copy....$1.00 |
The information in the Register will be verified, extracted and a certified copy
will be issued.
| How we'll inform you... |
Time limit |
Fees |
| You will receive your certified copies by mail. |
3 days |
$35 plus $1 for each page
plus, for each copyright to which the request relates $10 |
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