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- Access Copyright
- A reprography collective that grants licences to photocopy works and collects
fees on behalf of its members.
- Artistic work
- Visual representation such as a painting, drawing, map, photograph, sculpture,
engraving or architectural plan.
- Assignment
- Transfer of copyright from the original owner to another party.
- Author
- The creator of an artistic, literary, musical or dramatic work.
- Berne Convention Country
- A country that is party to the Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic
Works concluded at Berne on September 9, 1886, or any one of its revisions, including
the Paris Act of 1971.
- Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
- Federal agency responsible for the administration of intellectual property laws
(includes Copyright Office).
- Collective
- Organization that administers rights granted by the copyright system on behalf
of copyright owners who have joined that collective.
- Copyright
- Provides protection for literary, artistic, dramatic or musical works (including
computer programs), and three other subject matter known as: performer's
performance, sound recording and communication signal.
- Copyright Act
- Federal legislation governing copyright in Canada.
- Copyright Board of Canada
- A tribunal that reviews and must approve all tariffs and fees proposed by
collectives such as SOCAN, the Canadian performing rights society. The Board
can also set royalties when asked to do so by either a collective or a user of
a collective's repertoire. The Board also grants licences for use of works when
the copyright owner cannot be located.
- Copyright infringement
- Violation of copyright through unauthorized copying or use of a work or other
subject matter under copyright.
- Copyright Office
- The federal government office responsible for registering copyrights and agreements
affecting a copyright in Canada.
- Crown copyright
- Copyright in works prepared for or published by the government, i.e., government publications.
- Dramatic work
- Includes plays, screenplays, scripts, films, videos and choreographic works and
translations of such works.
- Exception
- A provision in a copyright law permitting the use of a work by defined user groups
without the consent of its creator and without the payment of royalties which
use would otherwise be an infringement of copyright. Examples of user groups
benefiting from exceptions are educational institutions, libraries, museums,
archives and persons with a perceptual disability.
- Fair dealing
- Use of works for purposes of private study, research, criticism, review or news
reporting that is not considered to constitute infringement of copyright.
- Industrial designs
- The visual features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament (or any combination
of these features), applied to a finished article of manufacture.
- Integrated circuit topographies
- Three-dimensional configurations of electronic circuits embodied in integrated
circuit products or layout designs.
- Intellectual property
- A form of creative endeavour that can be protected through a copyright, trade-mark,
patent, industrial design or integrated circuit topography.
- Licence
- Legal agreement granting someone permission to use a work for certain purposes
or under certain conditions. A licence does not constitute a change in ownership
of the copyright.
- Literary work
- Work consisting of text which includes novels, poems, song lyrics without music,
catalogues, reports, tables and translations of such works. It also includes
computer programs.
- Marking
- Indicating copyright with the symbol ©, the name of the copyright owner and the
year of first publication.
- Moral rights
- Rights an author retains over the integrity of a work and the right to be named
as its author even after sale or transfer of the copyright.
- Musical work
- Work which consists of music plus lyrics or music only.
- Patents
- Cover new inventions (process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter),
or any new and useful improvement of an existing invention.
- Pen name or nom de plume
- A name used by the writer instead of his or her real name.
- Performers and producers rights
- A term used to indicate rights of performers and sound recording producers to be
remunerated when their performances and sound recordings are performed publicly
or broadcast, also referred to as "neighbouring rights."
- Performing rights society
- An organization that administers rights to perform musical works on behalf of
composers, lyricists, songwriters and music publishers (see SOCAN).
- Plagiarism
- Using the work (or part of it) of another person and claiming it as your own.
- Private copying
- Copying of pre-recorded musical works, performer's performances and sound recordings
onto a blank medium, such as audio tape or cassette, for personal use.
- Private copying levy
- An amount of money established by the Copyright Board on blank recording media made
or imported and sold in Canada, payable by manufacturers and importers with the money
collected being redistributed to eligible composers, lyricists, performers and sound
recording makers through their professional associations or collectives.
- Posthumous work
- A work which is published for the first time (or for certain types of works,
published or performed or delivered in public for the first time) after the author's death.
- Publication
- Making copies of a work available to the public. The construction of an architectural
work and the incorporation of an artistic work into an architectural work are
considered publication.
- Registration
- The formal record of a copyright by the Copyright Office.
- Rome Convention Country
- A country that is party to the International Convention for the Protection of
Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations adopted on
October 26, 1961, in Rome.
- Royalty
- A sum paid to copyright owners for the sale or use of their works or other subject matter.
- Sound recording
- A device which reproduces sounds, such as a cassette, record or CD player.
- SOCAN
- The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada. SOCAN is the
only performing rights society in Canada.
- Tariff
- A standard charge for use of copyrighted works. Usually applies to fees paid
by users of musical works and cable companies for the rebroadcast of programs.
- Trade-marks
- Words, symbols, designs (or a combination of these), used to distinguish the
goods and services of one person or organization from those of others in the marketplace.
- Universal Copyright Convention Country
- A country that is party to the Universal Copyright Convention, adopted on
September 6, 1952, in Geneva, Switzerland, or to that Convention as revised
in Paris, France, on July 24, 1971.
- WTO Member Country
- A country that is a Member of the World Trade Organization as defined in
subsection 2(1) of the World Trade Organization Agreement Implementation Act.
A Guide to Copyrights
| Table of Contents |
| Introduction | Copyright Protection |
Registration of Copyright | Additional information |
| Appendix A - Twenty Common Questions About Copyright |
Glossary | Tariff of Fees |
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