Please take a moment to review our Intellectual Property guidelines.
Guidelines
Copyrights and Royalties
These Guidelines recognize:
- The fully commercial mandate of the Royal Canadian Mint while balancing the Royal Canadian Mint's commercial interests with its public policy role.
- The need to protect the intellectual property of the Royal Canadian Mint (coin, designs, photographs, film footage, advertising, etc.)
- The need to recover the costs of processing requests.
- The need to recover the costs of administering the usage fee structure, including the cost of clerical support to deal with clients.
- The need to balance the cost of processing, administering (including additional clerical support), monitoring compliance, and prosecution of offenders with potential fees to be recovered from users.
- The benefits in terms of publicity/exposure (credit to be given).
- The need to protect the image of the Royal Canadian Mint so that when the Mint's products are used, it is done tastefully and is compatible with the public policy objectives of the federal government.
- The need to adapt procedures to a fast-changing digital environment.
FORM OF PAYMENT OF ROYALTIES
Questions?
Guidelines