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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 ...
Any book published in London would therefore be protected by copyright law in the entire British Empire, including Canada. [4] The 1842 Act had an immediate impact on Canada and became infamous because it effectively prohibited the importation and sale of reprints of any book under British copyright printed in other countries.
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 ...
This is a list of copyright acts, which are laws enacting the copyright. Afghanistan ... The law on the support the right of authors, composers, artists and ...
An integrated circuit topography is the 3-dimensional configuration of the layers of semiconductors, metals, insulators, and other materials used to implement an integrated circuit. Integrated circuit topographies are protected in Canadian law by the Integrated Circuit Topography Act (S.C. 1990, c. 37). [8]
Five leading Canadian news outlets filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday, accusing the ChatGPT owner of violating copyright laws to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models. The outlets ...
The intent was to give copyright holders a complete monopolistic control over the reproduction of their works. However, the courts were almost immediately flooded by lawsuits by publishers unhappy with negative book reviews that included even a single quote of a work and the courts recognized that the statutes were untenable.
Under Canadian copyright law, an eligible work must be original to its author, not copied from another work, and requires more than trivial or mechanical intellectual effort. [24] In the case of CCH Canadian Ltd v Law Society of Upper Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada examined the different approaches taken to the definition of originality ...