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...

of Canada. In English law, copyright was first created by the Statute of Anne of 1709. Initially, there was no provision for unauthorized copying of copyrighted...

list of cases that deal with issues of concern to copyright in various jurisdictions. Some of these cases are leading English cases as the law of copyright...

The Copyright Act (French: Loi sur le droit d’auteur) is the federal statute governing copyright law in Canada. It is jointly administered by the Department...

In Canada, the Copyright Act provides a monopoly right to owners of copyrighted works. This implies no person can use the work without authorization or...

Japanese copyright laws (著作権法, Chosakukenhō) consist of two parts: "Author's Rights" and "Neighbouring Rights". As such, "copyright" is a convenient collective...

Copyright Act 1957 as amended governs the subject of copyright law in India. The Act is applicable from 21 January 1958. The history of copyright law...

in Canadian copyright law are protected under the Copyright Act of Canada and include an author's right to attribution, integrity and association of a...

control the publication of government works as the public's trustee. In Canada, Crown copyright also applies to "primary law, but there are certain circumstances...

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

treaties Moral rights (copyright law) Official text copyright Rule of the shorter term Terms of protection were taken from a variety of sources, including...

The copyright law of Australia defines the legally enforceable rights of creators of creative and artistic works under Australian law. The scope of copyright...

in copyright law in Canada is an important and complex topic which lies at the nexus between Canada's Copyright Act, an important body of case law, and...

attribution. Copyrights can be granted by public law and are in that case considered "territorial rights". This means that copyrights granted by the law of a certain...

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

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

infringement in Canadian copyright law for any person to do, without the consent of the owner of the copyright, anything that only the copyright owner has a...

In Canadian copyright law there are several Limitations to Copyright. These limitations define the scope of copyright protection by placing limits on ability...

The legal system of Canada is pluralist: its foundations lie in the English common law system (inherited from its period as a colony of the British Empire)...

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

by the OECD. In 2009 however it was found that Canada had only the tenth greatest number of copyright infringements in the world according to a report...

threshold of originality and the bounds of fair dealing in Canadian copyright law. A group of publishers sued the Law Society of Upper Canada for copyright infringement...

Fixation in Canadian copyright law is a threshold consideration that must be used in copyright infringement cases by courts to determine if copyright actually...

under copyright law. Ideas and facts are not copyrightable, subject to a few exceptions. In the United States, the subject matter of copyright has been...

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...

rights are rights of creators of copyrighted works generally recognized in civil law jurisdictions and, to a lesser extent, in some common law jurisdictions...

"secondary infringement" are two instances of "indirect infringement" in Canadian copyright law. In cases of indirect infringement, individuals can be...

Act of Canada Copyright Law of the PRC Copyright and Related Rights Act (2003) Copyright Act (Czech Republic). Copyright law of Egypt Copyright law of El...

December 1911. The act established copyright law in the UK and the British Empire. The act amended existing UK copyright law, as recommended by a royal commission...

The copyright law of the United States has a long and complicated history, dating back to colonial times. It was established as federal law with the Copyright...