The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (formerly Cancopy), operating as Access Copyright is a Canadian not-for-profit copyright collective. It collects...

A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative...

control access to copyrighted works (commonly known as digital rights management or DRM). It also criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control...

The copyright symbol, or copyright sign, © (a circled capital letter C for copyright), is the symbol used in copyright notices for works other than sound...

Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which nominally copyrightable publications are delivered to readers free of access...

Copyright is the right to copy and publish a particular work. The terms "copy" and "publish" are quite broad. They include copying in electronic form...

A copyright collective (also known as a copyright society, copyright collecting agency, licensing agency or copyright collecting society or collective...

first colonial copyright statute in 1832 but was subject to imperial copyright law established by Britain until 1921. Current copyright law was established...

The copyright law of the United States grants monopoly protection for "original works of authorship". With the stated purpose to promote art and culture...

Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission...

Alberta (Education) v Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright), 2012 SCC 37, is a Supreme Court of Canada case that considered whether the...

assisting its customers in copyright infringement by allowing the use of The Pirate Bay, and that they were to block access to the site. Although the ISP...

Limitations and exceptions to copyright are provisions, in local copyright law or the Berne Convention, which allow for copyrighted works to be used without...

program, or any other creative content for which there are very minimal copyright and other legal limitations on usage, modification and distribution. These...

Crown copyright is a type of copyright protection. It subsists in works of the governments of some Commonwealth realms and provides special copyright rules...

on copyright in 2012, two of which directly relate to fair dealing: Alberta (Education) v. Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright) (educational...

Copyright abolition is a movement to abolish copyright and all subsequent laws made in its support. The notion of anti-copyright combines a group of ideas...

York University v Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright), 2021 SCC 32 is a major decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in the matters...

Electronic Commerce Directive 2000 (2000) Conditional Access Directive (1998) Database Directive (1996) Copyright Duration Directive (1993) Satellite and Cable...

Criticism of copyright, or anti-copyright sentiment, is a dissenting view of the current state of copyright law or copyright as a concept. Critics often...

Captain Copyright was a propaganda cartoon character created by Canada's Access Copyright agency in 2006 to educate children about the agency's stance...

been created before copyright existed, or by their copyright term having expired. Some works are not covered by a country's copyright laws, and are therefore...

generative artificial intelligence models are raising questions about whether copyright infringement occurs when the generative AI is trained or used. This includes...

subscription and open access, which take different approaches to copyright. Subscription publishers typically require transfer of copyright ownership from the...

A copyright transfer agreement or copyright assignment agreement is an agreement that transfers the copyright for a work from the copyright owner to another...

public interest, particularly education, research and access to information" when updating copyright norms for the digital age. In the context of Internet...

Kingdom, a copyright is an intangible property right subsisting in certain qualifying subject matter. Copyright law is governed by the Copyright, Designs...

of software. Since the 1970s, software copyright has been recognized in the United States. Despite the copyright being recognized, most companies prefer...

Software copyright is the application of copyright in law to machine-readable software. While many of the legal principles and policy debates concerning...

access and uses of texts. CCC was founded in 1978 as a not-for-profit organization in response to negotiations preceding the United States Copyright Act...