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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
S14.1, S14.2, S17.1, and S17.2. Section 14.1 defines moral rights as the author's right to the integrity of the work, the author's right to create the work under his or her own name, pseudonym or anonymously (known as the right of attribution). Section 14.1 also lays out that moral rights can be waived in whole or in part, but cannot be ...
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 ideas and facts vs. expression distinction in Canadian copyright law is essentially the same as that in the United States. The basic notion is that although a copyright may be present in a work it is not present in the underlying ideas. Case law in Canada. For example, in the early case of Deeks v.
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 ...