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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.
National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers Union of Canada (CAW-Canada), [19] the Federal Court of Canada rejected the defendant's assertion that utilizing the copyright of the plaintiff on a pamphlet criticising the labour practices of the plaintiff in a labour dispute could qualify as fair dealing, because the ...
The exclusion of the work authored by freelancers from the rule in section 13(3) is not so much an exception from the rule as an application of the rule, because freelancers are not deemed to be employees under contracts of service.
The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is a collective society of composers, authors and publishers of music, which administers the right to communicate to the public by telecommunication the copyrighted works of its members.
In the European Union and Canada, sound recordings were copyrighted for 50 years until 2013. On 1 January 2013, the Beatles' single "Love Me Do" entered the public domain. [7] As of November 2013, European sound recordings are now protected for 70 years, which is not retroactive. [8] In 2015, Canada changed the copyright length to 70 years. [9]
Bell Canada as having "clarified the Canadian concept of fair dealing, with material consequences in this instance". SOCAN v. Bell Canada has been interpreted as having "reassess[ed] old shibboleths" and "reorient[ed]" legal understandings" with respect to copyright.
Fixation in Canadian copyright law. Fixation in Canadian copyright law is a threshold consideration that must be used in copyright infringement cases by courts to determine if copyright actually exists. In Canada, a work "must be expressed to some extent at least in some material form, capable of identification and having a more or less ...