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The Canadian Cultural Observatory lists publications and resources as a public service only and does not promote or endorse them in any way.
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"The journal seeks to publish scholarly articles on topics involving all aspects of intellectual property, including patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret law."
Creator(s): The John Marshall Law School | Date Published: 2006
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"Published twice annually, the Journal of Intellectual Property Law is the nation's first student-edited law journal devoted solely to the field of intellectual property law."
Creator(s): The University of Georgia School of Law | Date Published: 2004
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« Le présent rapport s’efforce, dans une première partie, d’analyser la nature et d’identifier les ressorts du conflit qui agite la Maison des artistes; il s’attache, dans une seconde partie, à décrire les insuffisances du dispositif actuel de gestion du régime de sécurité sociale des artistes auteurs; il tente enfin, dans une troisième partie, de proposer les voies d’une solution nécessaire au conflit. »
Creator(s): Michel Raymond, Inspecteur général des affaires sociales et Bruno Suzzarelli, Inspecteur général de l’administration des affaires culturelles | Date Published: 2005-10
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"The 2002 Speech From the Throne and the 2003 Budget announced the Government of Canada's commitment to regulate in a way to enhance the climate for investment and trust in the market as part of its Smart Regulation strategy. Integral to this strategy is the Canadian Government's important stewardship responsibility to protect and promote the public interest."
Creator(s): Canadian Intellectual Property Office | Date Published: 2003-11
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"Not all museums will wish to explore commercial markets for their intellectual property. For those that do, Like Light Through A Prism joins the other volumes in CHIN's intellectual property series as a tool to assist museums in becoming effective business partners."
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage Information Network | Date Published: 2002-04-27
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"Copyright law in Canada falls under federal jurisdiction. Canadian federal law is a composite of both the civil and common law systems. Although Canada's Copyright Act is based on British legislation, reforms in the past ten years have incorporated many concepts from civil law (such as moral rights), and added exhibition rights, as well as a comprehensive system of collective administration of copyright."
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage Information Network | Date Published: 2002-04-27
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"This document contains a Checklist identifying key items to be addressed in a licensing agreement between a museum and a person or company wanting to acquire the right to use a museum's images and information to create commercial or consumer products or for the purposes of sub-licensing."
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage Information Network | Date Published: 2002-04-27
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"Research findings are needed to evaluate the potential of culture and the arts as a strategic resource for society, as well as to inform the debate on the societal justification of the arts."
Creator(s): ARSIS Magazine - Arts Council of Finland | Date Published: 2002-03
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"There has been a lot of controversy on the role of intellectual property protection (IPP) regime especially the patent system in fostering innovation, technology and industrial development of a country. IPP is expected to encourage innovation by rewarding the inventor."
Creator(s): Nagesh Kumar | Date Published: 2002
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"The study examines the institutional capacities for intellectual property policy making, administration and enforcement which exist in poor countries and the recent technical co-operation programmes which have sought to re-enforce them."
Creator(s): Tom Pengelly & Mart Leesti | Date Published: 2002
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"Copyright as Cultural Policy provides an overview, historical anaylsis and legal implications of copyright law for the creative sector and cultural organizations in the United States."
Creator(s): Dr. Michael S. Shapiro | Date Published: 2001-10
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"The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights."
Creator(s): United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights | Date Published: 2000-08-17
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"GATT is a general international framework for establishing tariffs in order to foster trade between countries and reduce the effect of national legislation which may constitute an obstacle to free and fair trade. It also provides for dispute mechanisms and contains rules, for example, with respect to dumping."
Creator(s): Louis-Pierre Gravelle | Date Published: 1996-09-21
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General Reference |
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"This database lets you access over 75 years of patent descriptions and images. You can search, retrieve and study more than 1,500,000 patent documents."
Creator(s): Canadian Intellectual Property Office | Date Published: 2006
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"The iCommons Canada Project is an initiative of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC). CIPPIC's mandate is to fill voids in public policy debates on technology law issues, ensure balance in policy and law-making processes, and provide legal assistance to under-represented organizations and individuals on matters involving the intersection of law and technology."
Creator(s): Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) | Date Published: 2006
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"Global gateway on development issues with free access also to intellectual property rights news and resources."
Creator(s): Eldis Intellectual Property Rights Resource Guide | Date Published: 2006
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"The Canadian Independent Record Production Association is the trade organization representing the independent sector of the Canadian music and sound recording industry. For over 25 years CIRPA has been the collective voice of independent music in English-speaking Canada."
Creator(s): The Canadian Independent Record Production Association | Date Published: 2005
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Creator(s): Canadian Intellectual Property Office | Date Published: 2004-06-11
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"The annual ISMIR Conference is the first established international forum for those involved in work on accessing digital musical materials."
Creator(s): Audiovisual Institute, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Date Published: 2004
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"Informa Law, publishers of Trademark World, Patent World and Copyright World, have created The IP Think Tank as a tool to resolve specific problems emerging in the world of intellectual property."
Creator(s): Iforma Law | Date Published: 2004
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"Specific information on audiovisual policy."
Creator(s): European Commission | Date Published: 2004
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"The Intellectual Property Policy group consists of two directorates: the Intellectual Property Policy Directorate (IPPD) and the Patent Policy Directorate (PPD)."
Creator(s): Industry Canada | Date Published: 2003-10-27
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"Piracy of goods such as music, film and software is a growing international problem that has disastrous consequences for local cultures, economic development and cultural diversity."
Creator(s): UNESCO - Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity | Date Published: 2002-04-01
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"This site is designed to signpost you to the correct resource for intellectual property that will best satisfy your needs."
Creator(s): UK Government | Date Published: 2000
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Guides & Case Studies |
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"Not so long ago, the tradition for using and sharing intellectual property (IP) in museums could be best characterized as a "polite policy." Those who wished to use a museum's IP could do so in return for a reciprocal courtesy or a credit line, and perhaps some small payment."
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage Information Network | Date Published: 2004-02-06
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"Intellectual Property simply defined is any form of knowledge or expression created with one's intellect. It includes such things as inventions, computer software, trademarks, literary, artistic musical or visual works and even simply know-how."
Creator(s): Canadian University Intellectual Property Group | Date Published: 2004
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"Copyright Guide for Museums and Other Cultural Organizations."
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2002-04-27
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Legislation & Regulations |
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"Article 1701: Nature and Scope of Obligations."
Creator(s): Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade | Date Published: 2002-11-25
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Related Materials
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"The primary objective of this paper is to determine how the downloading of music files through Internet peer-to-peer (P2P) networks influences music purchasing in Canada."
Creator(s): Birgitte Andersen and Marion Frenz | Date Published: 2007-05-04
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"The study critically analyses the Draft Treaty's provisions on object of protection, beneficiaries of protection, scope of granted rights, exceptions and limitations, term of protection, obligations regarding protection of technological measures, rights management information and formalities, pointing out potential areas of conflict with freedom of expression."
Creator(s): Patrícia Akester | Date Published: 2006
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« Le Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication, le Ministre délégué à l’Industrie et le Ministre délégué à la Recherche ont nommé deux experts, Gilles Kahn, président de l’Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA) et Antoine Brugidou, responsable des activités Service Public au sein de la société de conseil et ingénierie Accenture. »
Creator(s): A. Brugidou, G. Kahn | Date Published: 2005-03-10
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"This document is the first annual economic profile on the Canadian sound recording industry produced by the Department of Canadian Heritage. It provides information on the Canadian and International sound recording markets and music copyright royalties in Canada."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2005-01-07
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« ... dans le contexte de l'avènement de la société de l'information, quels contenus patrimoniaux numérisés le ministère de la culture doit-il diffuser gratuitement sur internet? Quelles doivent être ses relations avec les éditeurs privés souhaitant exploiter ces contenus? Quelle organisation doit-il se donner dans ce domaine? »
Creator(s): Bruno Ory-Lavollée | Date Published: 2002-01
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"This paper outlines current Canadian intellectual property (IP) legislation as it relates to Aboriginal people in Canada, and provides a general review of the implications and limitations of this legislation for protecting the traditional knowledge of Aboriginal people."
Creator(s): Research & Analysis Directorate | Date Published: 1999-10
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"This Study considers the legal protection of databases (traditional and new media) in Canada and comparatively with protections available or proposed in the United States and the European Union. It represents the initial stage preliminary to the development of a database protection policy for Canada."
Creator(s): Patrimoine canadien/ Industrie Canada | Date Published: 1998-10
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"...Artmob is a multisectoral initiative designed to build large, accessible online archives of publically licensed Canadian art, and to foreground the issues that this process raises for Canadian copyright and intellectual property laws."
Lead Managing Organization: Artmob | Start Date: 2006
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"AMCHAM EU is the key organization representing the view of American companies committed to Europe, and often deals with intellectual property issues."
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"CARCC (Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective Inc), established in 1990, is a copyright collective that licenses and administers copyright for visual and media artists in Canada."
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"CIPR is a private-public partnership dedicated solely to advancing intellectual property rights protection, enforcement and reform in the CIS countries and the Baltic states."
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"SOCAN is the Canadian copyright collective for the public performance of musical works. We administer the performing rights of our members (composers, lyricists, songwriters and their publishers) and those of affiliated international societies by licensing the use of their music in Canada."
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"The Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board is an independent tribunal of the Department of Canadian Heritage that was established in 1977 by section 18 of the Cultural Property Export and Import Act."
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"The Canadian Independent Record Production Association is the trade organization representing the independent sector of the Canadian music and sound recording industry. For over 25 years CIRPA has been the collective voice of independent music in English-speaking Canada."
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"The Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd. (CMRRA) is a non-profit music licensing agency, which represents the vast majority of music copyright owners (usually called music publishers) doing business in Canada."
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"The Canadian Private Copying Collective is the non-profit agency charged with collecting and distributing private copying royalties. Established in 1999, CPCC is an umbrella organization that represents songwriters, recording artists, music publishers and record companies. These are the groups on whose behalf the royalties are collected."
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"The Centre for Intellectual Property Policy is a research centre which studies the manner in which information and technology affect laws, legal systems and institutions. It uses a transdisciplinary approach to examine and analyse problems of social organisation, governance through law and the limits of private, public and international regulatory regimes."
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"The Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd. (CLA) is the UK's Reproduction Rights Organisation and a member of the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO). Formed in 1982, it is a non-profit making company owned by its members, the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) and the Publishers Licensing Society(PLS), to encourage and promote respect for copyright."
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"The general object of the Canadian Association for Conservation of Cultural Property is to further the dissemination of knowledge concerning the conservation of Canada's cultural property and heritage."
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"The patent experts, delivering quality information for the best intellectual property decisions."
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"The Professional Association Concerned with Patents, Trade-marks, Copyright and Industrial Designs."
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"The Société québécoise de gestion collective des droits de reproduction, commonly referred to as COPIBEC, is a not-for-profit collective which was founded in 1997 by the Union des écrivaines et écrivains québécois (UNEQ) and the Association nationale des éditeurs de livres (ANEL). Various other organizations representing newspaper and periodical authors and publishers and visual artists are also members of COPIBEC."
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"The Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues aims to actively promote and distribute internationally quality academic research relating economic theory with all aspects of copyright and intellectual property of a cultural nature."
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"The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an international organization dedicated to helping to ensure that the rights of creators and owners of intellectual property are protected worldwide and that inventors and authors are, thus, recognized and rewarded for their ingenuity."
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"To be a leading intellectual property office recognized for excellence in our products and services and for strengthening Canada's innovative capacity, through ongoing quality improvement, continuous development of our employees and adherence to our values."
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« La SODEC est une société d'État qui relève du ministre de la Culture et des Communications du Québec. Elle soutient l'implantation et le développement des entreprises culturelles, y compris les médias, dans toutes les régions du Québec. »
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« Présentation de l'AQAD Comment devenir membre L'ASSOCIATION QUÉBÉCOISE DES AUTEURS DRAMATIQUES est une société à but non lucratif. Sa mission est de défendre les droits et les intérêts moraux, sociaux, économiques et professionnels des auteurs dramatiques, des librettistes, des adaptateurs et des traducteurs francophones, québécois et canadiens. »
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"This Act may be cited as the Copyright Act; An Act respecting copyright."
Creator(s): Department of Justice Canada | Date Published: 2006-02-10
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"His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Industry, pursuant to subsections 17(3)a and 62(1)b of the Copyright Act, hereby makes the annexed Cinematographic Works (Right to Remuneration) Regulations."
Creator(s): Department of Justice Canada | Date Published: 2005-08-09
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"Looting, theft, illegal export and import, and illicit trafficking of cultural property are international problems affecting all States to various extents. Such an international problem is best fought against by an international response."
Creator(s): UNESCO | Date Published: 2005-02-21
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"An Act to establish the Library and Archives of Canada, to amend the Copyright Act and to amend certain Acts in consequence... Passed by the House of Commons October 28, 2003."
Creator(s): House of Commons of Canada | Date Published: 2003-10-28
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"An act to amend the Copyright Act."
Creator(s): House of Commons of Canada | Date Published: 2001-12-12
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"By order of the Governor General in Council, the remaining provisions of An Act to Amend the Copyright Act (Bill C-32), will come into force on October 1, 1999."
Creator(s): Industry Canada | Date Published: 1999-09-01
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UNESCO Copyright bulletin
Creator(s): UNESCO
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Copibec Newsletters
Creator(s): Copibec
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