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Over the years, legislative provisions for copyright have become increasingly complex.
This section of Copyright In Focus provides access to general information about the history of the Canadian copyright legislative framework as well as its practical applications in today's world. This section also contains resources relating to the current copyright policy environment, key copyright concepts, and an overview of recent legislative history.
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"On March 24, the ministers of Canadian Heritage and Industry released a Statement outlining the Government's proposals for amendments to the Copyright Act that would address the short-term group of reform issues."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage, Industry Canada | Date Published: 2005-03-24
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"This booklet gives teachers user-friendly information about copyright law and copyright collectives and how they relate to the use of resources in the classroom."
Creator(s): Wanda Noel, and Gerald Breau | Date Published: 2005
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"Legal Deposit is the means by which a comprehensive national collection is gathered together as a record of the nation's published heritage and development."
Creator(s): Library and Archives Canada | Date Published: 2004-10-26
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"This selected bibliography on Intellectual Property and Digital Rights was compiled by the Canadian Cultural Observatory. It represents a compendium of many of the main sources and readings currently available. It contains more than 100 entries, mostly periodical articles written from 2000 to early 2004."
Creator(s): Canadian Cultural Observatory - Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2004-09
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"Regulations respecting copyright."
Creator(s): Department of Justice Canada | Date Published: 2004-08-31
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"Three public interest groups have launched a campaign to focus the attention of political parties and candidates on issues involving the Internet and user rights. The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC), Digital Copyright Canada, and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) have asked party leaders and candidates for their views on user rights under copyright law and other technology-related issues."
Creator(s): Public Interest Advocacy Centre | Date Published: 2004-06-21
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"Statement of royalties to be collected by SOCAN for the public performance or the communication to the public by telecommunication, in Canada, of musical or dramatico-musical works."
Creator(s): Copyright Board of Canada | Date Published: 2004-06-18
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"Copyright Circulars."
Creator(s): Canadian Intellectual Property Office | Date Published: 2004-06-14
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"With the coming into force of Bill C-32 in 1998, the Copyright Act was subjected to a major overhaul. To gauge the effectiveness of the amended Act, Section 92 requires the Minister to table a report on the provisions and operation of the Act within five years of the proclamation of Bill C-32."
Creator(s): Report of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2004-05
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"Statement of royalties to be collected by SOCAN for the public performance or the communication to the public by telecommunication, in Canada, of musical or dramatico-musical works."
Creator(s): Copyright Board of Canada | Date Published: 2004-03-26
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"The Status Report on Copyright Reform was tabled with the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on March 25, 2004, by the Minister of Canadian Heritage and the Minister of Industry."
Creator(s): Industry Canada & Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2004-03-25
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"The paper begins with a brief survey of the relationship of copyright to Canadian cultural policy, and the status of culture in international trade agreements generally."
Creator(s): Susan Crean, B. Laurie Edwards and Marian D. Hebb | Date Published: 2004-03-11
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"Literally, copyright means the "right to copy." The Canadian Copyright Act grants copyright owners the sole and exclusive right to reproduce, perform or publish a work. These rights give copyright holders control over the use of their creations, and an ability to benefit, monetarily and otherwise, from the exploitation of their works. In addition, copyright protects the reputation of creators."
Creator(s): Lesley Ellen Harris and McGraw-Hill Ryerson | Date Published: 2004
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"Copyright is a work in progress. Many amendments have been made since the Canadian Copyright Act of 1924 was first enacted. More than ever, however, change continues to be required to adapt to the current economic, social, technological, and international environment."
Creator(s): Industry Canada | Date Published: 2004
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"With the release of A Framework for Copyright Reform, the Government of Canada launched the process for reforming Canadian copyright legislation over the years to come."
Creator(s): Industry Canada | Date Published: 2004
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"On appeal from the Federal Court of Appeal."
Creator(s): Supreme Court of Canada | Date Published: 2004
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"Interim decision (s. 66.51 of the Copyright Act) - Interim tariffs coming into force on January 1, 2004 will remain in force until the Board certifies the final relevant tariffs for the period commencing January 1, 2004."
Creator(s): Copyright Board of Canada | Date Published: 2003-12-22
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"The Copyright Board of Canada has today issued a decision on private copying levies for 2003 and 2004."
Creator(s): Copyright Board of Canada | Date Published: 2003-12-12
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"The goal of this paper is to analyze the principles and some of the issues related to one of the recommendations of the first report: implementing an extended collective licence regime within a Canadian context."
Creator(s): Professor Daniel Gervais | Date Published: 2003-06
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"Statement of royalties to be collected by SODRAC for the Reproduction of Musical Works by Community Radio Stations in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005."
Creator(s): Copyright Board of Canada | Date Published: 2003-05-09
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"How has Canada's Copyright Act been amended?"
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2003-05-07
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"Statement of royalties to be collected by CMRRA/SODRAC Inc. for the Reproduction of Musical Works, in Canada, by Commercial Radio Stations in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004."
Creator(s): Copyright Board of Canada | Date Published: 2003-03-28
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"Statement of Royalties to be Collected for the Retransmission of Distant Radio and Television Signals, in Canada, in 2001, 2002 and 2003."
Creator(s): Copyright Board of Canada | Date Published: 2003-03-21
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"The most important point made in this submission is that digital rights management (DRM) technology should not and cannot be protected by Canadian law."
Creator(s): Matthew Skala | Date Published: 2003-01-31
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"It documents the Board’s contribution to the protection of the interests of Canadians by setting royalties intended to be fair and equitable to both copyright owners and users of copyright-protected works."
Creator(s): Copyright Board of Canada | Date Published: 2003
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"The Study is a survey of the current status of legal protection relating to technical protection measures (TPMs) in Canada."
Creator(s): Christian S. Tacit, and Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2003
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"This is the second of two companion Studies prepared for the Copyright Policy Branch of the Department of Canadian Heritage by the law firm of Nelligan O’Brien Payne LLP."
Creator(s): Dr. Ian Kerr, Alana Maurushat and Christian S. Tacit | Date Published: 2003
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"Interim Statement of Royalties to Be Collected by ERCC from Educational Institutions in Canada for the Reproduction and Performance of Works or Other Subject-Matters Communicated to the Public by Telecommunications for the Years 2003 to 2006."
Creator(s): Copyright Board of Canada | Date Published: 2002-12-18
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"Statement of Royalties to be collected by ERCC from Educational Institutions in Canada for the Reproduction and Performance of Works or Other Subject-Matters Communicated to the Public by Telecommunications for the Years 1999 to 2002."
Creator(s): Copyright Board of Canada | Date Published: 2002-10-25
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"The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty (WCT) and Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) have recently come into force. It is anticipated that there will be changes in the national laws of Canada’s major trading partners in response to the WIPO treaties."
Creator(s): Michael Rushton | Date Published: 2002-06
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"Information on Copyright in Canada."
Creator(s): Library and Archives Canada | Date Published: 2002-04-17
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"A complilation of the decisions rendered in canada with respect to copyright in 2001."
Creator(s): Laurent Carrière | Date Published: 2002
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"The report documents the Board’s contribution to the protection of the interests of Canadians by setting royalties which are intended to be fair and equitable to both copyright owners and users of copyright-protected works."
Creator(s): Copyright Board of Canada | Date Published: 2002
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"On appeal from the court of Appeal for Quebec."
Creator(s): Supreme Court of Canada | Date Published: 2002
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«La présente étude reprend donc dans une forme sommaire ces politiques : ce texte a pour objet de fournir un outil de référence de base et une synthèse de certaines de ces politiques. Il s’avère cependant nécesaire de consulter les politiques elles-mêmes, dans leur ensemble et dans le texte de leur dernière mise à jour.»
Creator(s): Marie-Ève Côté et Jean-Michel Hébert | Date Published: 2002
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"In this first Study, we focus on the actual technologies used to protect copyrights by offering technological descriptions of various TPMs, as well as an enumeration of their current and anticipated functions."
Creator(s): Dr. Ian Kerr, Alana Maurushat and Christian S. Tacit | Date Published: 2002
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«De façon générale, l'exploitation des «oeuvres de l'esprit» -dont sont les logiciels, les dépliants publicitaires, les bons de commande, les listes de prix, les rapports internes et les plans, sans oublier les banques de données- obéit aux mêmes règles que les autres formes de propriété industrielle ou intellectuelle.»
Creator(s): Laurent Carrière | Date Published: 2002
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"The cultural policy objective of the Copyright Act is to ensure adequate protection for creators of cultural content and appropriate access for all Canadians to works that enhance the cultural experience."
Creator(s): Industry Canada | Date Published: 2002
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«Depuis 1995 et la publication du rapport final du sous-comité sur le droit d’auteur, ce tableau a été coloré d’une jurisprudence nombreuse, d’origine américaine pour la plupart et, plus récemment, européenne. Le Canada, sans être en reste, a une production législative plus retenue qui correspond, je crois, à une politique d’attentisme.»
Creator(s): Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse | Date Published: 2001
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"The report documents the Board’s contribution to the protection of the interests of Canadians by setting royalties which are fair and equitable to both copyright owners and users of copyright-protected works."
Creator(s): Copyright Board of Canada | Date Published: 2000-2001
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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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"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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Creator(s): Canadian Intellectual Property Office | Date Published: 2004-06-11
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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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"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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"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 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 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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