What is Copyright? A copyright is the exclusive right to copy a work, or to permit any other person to do so.   The owner of a work’s copyright has the sole right to control any publication, production, reproduction and performance of that work, or its translation. Copyright also includes the right of its owner to prevent people from reproducing significant portions of a work or from creating very similar expressions. What will be considered a very similar expression or a “significant portion” of a work will vary depending on the case. A copyright holder also has the right to demand.

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Generally copyright exists for fifty years after the death of the author. After that, the work enters the public domain. Works that are part of the public domain are not legally protected by copyright and can therefore be used or exploited without the consent of the owner. However, there are a few exceptions depending on the type of work involved: Joint authorship: A collaborative work is defined as a work for which the contribution of each co-author is seen an essential component of the whole. The work is perceived as a whole and consequently, is protected by a single copyright..

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Succession is the distribution of someone’s property (including copyrights) after they die. If the deceased does not allocate their property through a will, it will be distributed according to the rules of succession in the Civil Code of Quebec. The general rules are: If the deceased is married, 1/3 of their succession is transferred to their spouse, with 2/3 going to other descendants Descendants get equal proportions of the deceased’s succession, provided they are related in the same degree If there are no descendants, 2/3 of the succession is transferred to the spouse and 1/3 to the mother, father and siblings.

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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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