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Canadian copyright law sets out rules which determine who is to be the first owner of the copyright for a new copyright-able work. The rules cover different groups of people such as the authors of the work, employees who create works in the course of their employment, independent contractors who create works under contracts for services, and ...
The copyright law of Canada governs the legally enforceable rights to creative and artistic works under the laws of Canada. Canada passed its first colonial copyright statute in 1832 but was subject to imperial copyright law established by Britain until 1921.
The music industry created a loophole in Canadian copyright laws when it asked for a levy on blank audio media. Since 1999, these private copying levies [ 20 ] on blank audio recording media (such as audio cassettes, CDs and CD-Rs) have raised millions of dollars for songwriters, recording artists, music publishers and record companies who ...
While most areas of Canadian intellectual property law are within the purview of Parliament and the Federal government, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in MacDonald v. Vapor Canada Ltd. that civil remedies pertaining to trade secrets fall within the provincial power over property and civil rights .
The Board also has the right to supervise agreements between users and licensing bodies and issues licences when the copyright owner cannot be located. [1] The Honourable Luc Martineau is the current Chairman of the Board of Directors. [2] [3]
A simple example involves a list of recipe ingredients for pancake batter. The expression of the list of ingredients can only be done in a very limited number of ways. As a result, the granting copyright over the list would be to deny the use of the idea of pancake batter to other cooks.
Canadian news companies have sued OpenAI, alleging the ChatGPT-maker uses their content without permission. The lawsuit claims OpenAI violated Canadian copyright laws and profited from it.
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