According to Canadian Copyright law it protects all creator’s creative endeavours by ensuring that only the creator has right to authorize his publication, performance or reproduction (section 3(1)). Copyright applies to all original:
* literary or textual works: books, pamphlets, poems, computer programs
* dramatic works: films, videos, plays, screenplays and scripts
* musical works: compositions consisting of both words and music, or music only (lyrics without music are considered literary works)
* artistic works: paintings, drawings, maps, photographs, and sculptures
* architectural works
Copyright also applies to this subject matter:-
Performer’s performances (section 15); Audio & video recordings such as records, cassettes and CDs (section 18). Broadcast communication signals (section 21).In Canada under copyright laws, protection is automatic: as soon as an original work has been written down, recorded or entered as a computer file, it is immediately copyright-protected. As an evidence that the copyright is registered to the owner (section 53 (2)), a certificate of registration of copyright is also recommended. International agreements also protect Canadian copyrights in most foreign countries.
Copyright protects intellectual property rather than physical property: the text of a book or a song, rather than the actually book or paper it’s printed on. Copyright entitlement legally ends at a certain point .Generally, it acknowledge for the lifetime of the creator, the remainder of the calendar year in which the creator dies, and for 50 years after the end of that calendar year.
Though it is "fair dealing" stipulation, but the Copyright Act does allow individuals or organizations to use original works without such use being considered an infringement: criticism and review, news reporting, and private study or research (section 29). The Act also exempts certain categories of users, such as non-profit educational institutions (section 29.4).
Copyright Act also affirms the Copyright Board of Canada, an economic regulatory body that initiates the royalties to be paid for the use of copyrighted works (section 66). The Board has the right to supervise agreements between users and licensing bodies, and issue licenses when the copyright owner cannot be located.
The administration of such copyrights is encumbered to a collective administrative society (section 67). A collective society is an organization that administers the rights of several copyright owners, grants permission to use their works, and sets conditions. Collective administration is widespread in Canada, particularly for the rights to mechanical reproduction, reprography rights and musical performances.
Other government organizations are also involved in the administration of copyright. The Copyright Policy Branch, in the department of Canadian Heritage, works with the Intellectual Property Policy Directorate of Industry Canada. It interfaces with stakeholders and interest group to keep copyright policies up to date addressing, for instance, new developments in technology, such as the Internet.
The law of copyright is not only limited to music or books but also applies to the Internet too, and so most individual works found there are protected: using Internet text or graphics without the permission of the copyright holder, for instance, is an infringement of copyright law.
However, the issue of "streaming" broadcast programming over the Internet is the ambiguous of the legislation. To concentrate on these concerns about Internet retransmission, the Canadian government proposed Bill C-48 in December 2001.
* literary or textual works: books, pamphlets, poems, computer programs
* dramatic works: films, videos, plays, screenplays and scripts
* musical works: compositions consisting of both words and music, or music only (lyrics without music are considered literary works)
* artistic works: paintings, drawings, maps, photographs, and sculptures
* architectural works
Copyright also applies to this subject matter:-
Performer’s performances (section 15); Audio & video recordings such as records, cassettes and CDs (section 18). Broadcast communication signals (section 21).In Canada under copyright laws, protection is automatic: as soon as an original work has been written down, recorded or entered as a computer file, it is immediately copyright-protected. As an evidence that the copyright is registered to the owner (section 53 (2)), a certificate of registration of copyright is also recommended. International agreements also protect Canadian copyrights in most foreign countries.
Copyright protects intellectual property rather than physical property: the text of a book or a song, rather than the actually book or paper it’s printed on. Copyright entitlement legally ends at a certain point .Generally, it acknowledge for the lifetime of the creator, the remainder of the calendar year in which the creator dies, and for 50 years after the end of that calendar year.
Though it is "fair dealing" stipulation, but the Copyright Act does allow individuals or organizations to use original works without such use being considered an infringement: criticism and review, news reporting, and private study or research (section 29). The Act also exempts certain categories of users, such as non-profit educational institutions (section 29.4).
Copyright Act also affirms the Copyright Board of Canada, an economic regulatory body that initiates the royalties to be paid for the use of copyrighted works (section 66). The Board has the right to supervise agreements between users and licensing bodies, and issue licenses when the copyright owner cannot be located.
The administration of such copyrights is encumbered to a collective administrative society (section 67). A collective society is an organization that administers the rights of several copyright owners, grants permission to use their works, and sets conditions. Collective administration is widespread in Canada, particularly for the rights to mechanical reproduction, reprography rights and musical performances.
Other government organizations are also involved in the administration of copyright. The Copyright Policy Branch, in the department of Canadian Heritage, works with the Intellectual Property Policy Directorate of Industry Canada. It interfaces with stakeholders and interest group to keep copyright policies up to date addressing, for instance, new developments in technology, such as the Internet.
The law of copyright is not only limited to music or books but also applies to the Internet too, and so most individual works found there are protected: using Internet text or graphics without the permission of the copyright holder, for instance, is an infringement of copyright law.
However, the issue of "streaming" broadcast programming over the Internet is the ambiguous of the legislation. To concentrate on these concerns about Internet retransmission, the Canadian government proposed Bill C-48 in December 2001.
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