The concept While copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted to the creator of an original work which may include the right to copy, distribute and adapt that work, copyleft is the practice of making a creation free in addition to requiring all modifications to be free as well. Adherents of copyleft feel that the general public’s interests would be better served without tight restrictions over the use of works. Under copyleft (also known as open-source licensing and free licensing), everyone has the right to modify and publish a work, as the original author has relinquished control over it..

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What is Fair Dealing? Generally speaking, copyright gives the individual who owns the rights to a work the ability to dictate how it is reproduced and under what conditions. “Fair dealing” is an exception to this – it allows users to perform certain activities (like say, photocopying a book so you can continue studying when you leave the library) without violating copyright. The first factor essential to deciding if an activity falls under fair dealing is its purpose – i.e., the reason you are making a copy. In the Canadian Copyright Act, section 29 lays out these exceptional purposes: 1. Research or.

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Copyright collectives are associations that administer the rights of copyright owners. Owners authorise societies to issue licences for the use of their works and collect royalties on their behalf. Copyright owners register their works with a collective, which then collects a fee each time a registered work is licensed and pays a royalty back to the copyright owner. Copyright collectives usually represent copyright owners of a specific medium (such as music, visual arts or film) and administer specific rights pertaining to it. Here are some examples: SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) administers performing rights for.

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What is Copyright Infringement? “Infringement” is the legal term used to denote a violation of copyright law, which means doing any of the things or exercising any of the rights which only the copyright owner may do, without consent of the copyright owner (see our fact sheet on copyright). Ignorance, good faith or lack of intention to violate a copyright is generally no excuse—indeed, even subconscious copying may be a violation, although in certain contexts ignorance is a possible defense (more detail below under “secondary infringement”). The most widespread kind of copyright infringement is copying part or all of a.

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Youtube can be a great tool for artists to gain recognition. However, it does raise certain issues relating to the artist’s copyright. State of the law: Copyright ownership of works uploaded onto Youtube Uploading a video onto Youtube does not transfer the ownership of the work. Uploading a video gives Youtube a licence to reproduce and distribute it royalty-free for use on its website and for promotion of it and its affiliates. It also allows viewers to access the video on Youtube for free. Viewers cannot download or copy any material found on Youtube. However, they can redistribute videos through.

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How is a work defined within the meaning of the Copyright Act? A work is an original creation expressed in a tangible form that can be perceived by the senses and likely to be produced or reproduced, in part or in whole. If I have an idea and I want to create a work based on that idea, I must give it shape, which means that I must set it either in writing, through images, through sounds or by any other form or shape. The following are not considered as works: Ideas, data, methods, concepts, inventions, discoveries, formulas, culinary recipes,.

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As discussed on CJAM’s Copyright: The Basics fact sheet, available here, copyright occurs automatically once your original idea is fixed onto a tangible medium. Proving as much has always been of major concerns to artists, and so years ago the “Mail It To Yourself”, or “Poor Man’s Copyright” Myth was popularized. Artists decided to mail themselves a copy of their work through the postal system as “proof” they had created the work before the date the envelope was postmarked. Then, if there was ever a situation of alleged copyright infringement, they could turn to their envelope’s contents to prove the date.

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The Copyright Act specifically defines “every original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic work” to include translations. This classifies translations as original works and gives the same copyright protections non-derivative original works. The main benefits of owning a copyright include the right to prohibit others from reproducing your work, and the right to demand payment for use of your work. For more information, see: http://cjam.info/posts.php?post_id=46 What is a translation? The Copyright Act does not provide its own definition of translation. The Federal Court of Appeal has defined translation, in the context of copyright, as “the turning of something from one human language to another.”[1] There is an.

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A definition of a license A license grants the licensee permission, consent or clearance to use the copyrighted work according to the terms specified by the licensor, who is the owner of the copyright. Licenses may be (1) Exclusive, (2) Sole or (3) Non-exclusive . An exclusive license grants the licensee the power to exercise the copyright to the exclusion of all others – including the licensor.  If the term of this agreement is long, the license becomes very close to an assignment of copyright. A sole license names the licensee as the  only person, other than the owner of.

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What is a valid contract? In Quebec, a contract is an agreement between at least two people, which is intended to be legally binding. Generally, in order for a contract to be valid, the contract and its formation process must respect the following fundamental principles: (1) each party must have consented willfully to the contract; (2) each party must have acted in good faith during the negotiations leading up to the contract and the effects to each party created in the contract must not be unreasonably excessive; and (3) the contract must not violate a rule of public order. What.

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