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Law of the Copyright

 

Table of Contents

• Copyright Act

  • 1 - Short Title

  • 2 - Interpretation

  • 3 - PART I - Copyright and Moral Rights in Works

    • 3 - Copyright

    • 5 - Works in which Copyright may Subsist

    • 6 - Term of Copyright

    • 13 - Ownership of Copyright

    • 14.1 - Moral Rights

  • 15 - PART II - Copyright in Performers’ Performances, Sound Recordings and Communication Signals and Moral Rights in Performers’ Performances

    • 15 - Performers’ Rights

      • 15 - Copyright

      • 17.1 - Moral Rights

    • 18 - Rights of Sound Recording Makers

    • 19 - Provisions Applicable to both Performers and Sound Recording Makers

    • 21 - Rights of Broadcasters

    • 22 - Reciprocity

    • 23 - Term of Rights

    • 24 - Ownership of Copyright

    • 26 - Performers’ Rights — WTO Countries

  • 27 - PART III - Infringement of Copyright and Moral Rights and Exceptions to Infringement

    • 27 - Infringement of Copyright

      • 27 - General

      • 27.1 - Parallel Importation of Books

    • 28.1 - Moral Rights Infringement

    • 29 - Exceptions

      • 29 - Fair Dealing

      • 29.21 - Non-commercial User-generated Content

      • 29.22 - Reproduction for Private Purposes

      • 29.23 - Fixing Signals and Recording Programs for Later Listening or Viewing

      • 29.24 - Backup Copies

      • 29.3 - Acts Undertaken without Motive of Gain

      • 29.4 - Educational Institutions

      • 30.1 - Libraries, Archives and Museums

      • 30.3 - Machines Installed in Educational Institutions, Libraries, Archives and Museums

      • 30.4 - Libraries, Archives and Museums in Educational Institutions

      • 30.5 - Library and Archives of Canada

      • 30.6 - Computer Programs

      • 30.62 - Encryption Research

      • 30.63 - Security

      • 30.7 - Incidental Inclusion

      • 30.71 - Temporary Reproductions for Technological Processes

      • 30.8 - Ephemeral Recordings

      • 31 - Retransmission

      • 31.1 - Network Services

      • 32 - Persons with Perceptual Disabilities

      • 32.1 - Statutory Obligations

      • 32.2 - Miscellaneous

    • 32.3 - Interpretation

    • 32.4 - Compensation for Acts Done Before Recognition of Copyright of Performers and Broadcasters

    • 33 - Compensation for Acts Done Before Recognition of Copyright or Moral Rights

  • 34 - PART IV - Remedies

    • 34 - Civil Remedies

      • 34 - Infringement of Copyright and Moral Rights

      • 41 - Technological Protection Measures and Rights Management Information

      • 41.23 - General Provisions

    • 41.25 - Provisions Respecting Providers of Network Services or Information Location Tools

    • 42 - Criminal Remedies

    • 43.1 - Limitation or Prescription Period

    • 44 - Importation and Exportation

      • 44 - Interpretation

      • 44.01 - Prohibition and Detention by Customs Officer

        • 44.01 - Prohibition

        • 44.02 - Request for Assistance

        • 44.03 - Measures Relating to Detained Copies

        • 44.08 - No Liability

        • 44.09 - Powers of Court Relating to Detained Copies

      • 44.11 - Prohibition Resulting from Notice

      • 44.12 - Court-ordered Detention

  • 46 - PART V - Administration

    • 46 - Copyright Office

    • 54 - Registration

    • 59 - Fees

  • 60 - PART VI - Miscellaneous Provisions

    • 60 - Substituted Right

    • 61 - Clerical Errors

    • 62 - Regulations

    • 63 - Industrial Designs and Topographies

  • 66 - PART VII - Copyright Board

  • 67 - PART VII.1 - Collective Administration of Copyright

    • 67 - Collective Societies

    • 68 - Tariffs

      • 68 - Proposed Tariffs

      • 69 - Withdrawal or Amendment of Proposed Tariff

      • 70 - Approval of Tariffs

    • 71 - Fixing of Royalty Rates in Individual Cases

    • 72 - Special Rules Related to Royalty Rates

    • 73 - Effects Related to Tariffs and Fixing of Royalty Rates

      • 73 - Permitted Acts and Enforcement

      • 74 - Effects of Agreement

    • 75 - Claim by Copyright Owner — Particular Royalties

    • 76 - Examination of Agreements

  • 77 - PART VII.2 - Certain Applications to Board

    • 77 - Owners Who Cannot be Located

    • 78 - Compensation for Acts Done Before Recognition of Copyright or Moral Rights

  • 79 - PART VIII - Private Copying

    • 79 - Interpretation

    • 80 - Copying for Private Use

    • 81 - Right of Remuneration

    • 82 - Levy on Blank Audio Recording Media

    • 84 - Distribution of Levies Paid

    • 86 - Exemption from Levy

    • 87 - Regulations

    • 88 - Civil Remedies

  • 89 - PART IX - General Provisions

  • SCHEDULE I - Existing Rights

  • SCHEDULE II

  • SCHEDULE III

Related Information

• Related Provisions

 

Regulations made under this Act

• Book Importation Regulations (SOR/99-324)

• Certification of Countries Granting Equal Copyright Protection Notice (C.R.C., c. 421)

• Cinematographic Works (Right to Remuneration) Regulations (SOR/99-194)

• Copyright Regulations (SOR/97-457)

• Defining “Advertising Revenues”, Regulations (SOR/98-447)

• Definition of “Small Cable Transmission System” Regulations (SOR/94-755)

• Definition of “Small Retransmission Systems” Regulations (SOR/89-255)

• Definition of “Wireless Transmission System” Regulations (SOR/98-307)

• Definition of Local Signal and Distant Signal Regulations (SOR/89-254)

• Educational Program, Work and Other Subject-matter Record-keeping Regulations (SOR/2001-296)

• Exceptions for Educational Institutions, Libraries, Archives and Museums Regulations (SOR/99-325)

• MicroSD Cards Exclusion Regulations (Copyright Act) (SOR/2012-226)

• Period Within Which Owners of Copyright not Represented by Collective Societies Can Claim Retransmission Royalties, Regulations Establishing the (SOR/97-164)

• Periods Within Which Eligible Authors, Eligible Performers and Eligible Makers not Represented by Collective Societies Can Claim Private Copying Remuneration, Regulations Establishing the (SOR/2013-143)

• Prescribing Networks (Copyright Act), Regulations (SOR/99-348)

• Programming Undertaking Regulations (SOR/93-436)

• Retransmission Royalties Criteria Regulations (SOR/91-690)

• Statement Limiting the Right to Equitable Remuneration of Certain Rome Convention or WPPT Countries (SOR/2014-181)

 

Repealed regulations made under this Act

• Limitation of the Right to Equitable Remuneration of Certain Rome Convention Countries Statement [Repealed] (SOR/99-143)

 

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