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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 ...
Canadian law. 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.
Criticism and review involve analyzing and judging merit or quality. The dealing may even be defamatory while remaining a fair dealing. [30] The key is that fairness relates to the extent, rather than the content, of the copying.
1988 amendments extended the concept of collective rights to all forms of copyright, thus enabling other licensing bodies to be created. 1997 amendments enabled the formation of the present-day framework of copyright collectives. Canadian jurisprudence has subsequently defined the nature and scope of tariffs:
Canadian intellectual property law governs the regulation of the exploitation of intellectual property in Canada. [1] Creators of intellectual property gain rights either by statute or by the common law. [1] Intellectual property is governed both by provincial and federal jurisdiction, although most legislation and judicial activity occur at ...
The court observed fair dealing as a statutory defence limited to infringement of copyright. On the other hand, public interest acts as a defence outside, and independent of statutes, which is based on principles of common law. The public interest defence is identical to that available in cases concerning breach of confidence, [8] and is ...
File sharing. File sharing in Canada relates to the distribution of digital media in that country. Canada had the greatest number of file sharers by percentage of population in the world according to a 2004 report by the OECD. [1] In 2009 however it was found that Canada had only the tenth greatest number of copyright infringements in the world ...
Indirect infringement in Canadian copyright law. "Authorization" and "secondary infringement" are two instances of "indirect infringement" in Canadian copyright law. In cases of indirect infringement, individuals can be held liable for infringement even where they did not personally make copies of the copyrighted subject-matter. [1]