Copyright is the exclusive right to reproduce, perform, publish, display, and make adaptations of a work as well as the right to authorize any or all of these acts.  If a work benefits from copyright protection, then the author or copyright holder can normally exercise their right to exclude others engaging in unauthorized acts (known as copyright infringement). In order to fall within the scope of copyright, a work must meet certain requirements stated in the Copyright Act and interpreted by Canadian courts. The work must be original →The work must originate from an author and show an exercise of that author’s.

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What are the advantages to registering an artistic work with Canadian Intellectual Property Office? Copyright in a work exists automatically when an original work is created. Registering an artistic work is not a mandatory procedure for a work to be protected by copyright. However, a certificate of registration with the CIPO is evidence that your creation is protected by copyright and that you, the person registered, are the presumed owner. It can be used in court as evidence of ownership. The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) is a special Operating Agency associated with Industry Canada. Their offices are responsible for.

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Let’s say you want your own website – not a WordPress blog or a Tumblr feed, but a space just for you to promote your work. The first thing you’re going to need to do is register a domain name. A domain name is a string of characters that identifies a sphere of administrative control on the internet. Confusing? Well, for our current purposes, it’s just the address that you type into your web browser to get to your website. For example, CJAM’s domain name is cjam.info. When you register a domain name, you reserve it for your uses. No.

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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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