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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Under the law of the United Kingdom, a copyright is an intangible property right subsisting in certain qualifying subject matter. Copyright law is governed...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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treaties Moral rights (copyright law) Official text copyright Rule of the shorter term Terms of protection were taken from a variety of sources, including...
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The copyright law of Australia defines the legally enforceable rights of creators of creative and artistic works under Australian law. The scope of copyright...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Software copyright is the application of copyright in law to machine-readable software. While many of the legal principles and policy debates concerning...
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extent, copyright law in some countries permits downloading copyright-protected content for personal, noncommercial use. Examples include Canada and European...
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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)...
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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...
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Fixation in Canadian copyright law is a threshold consideration that must be used in copyright infringement cases by courts to determine if copyright actually...
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Limitations and exceptions to copyright are provisions, in local copyright law or the Berne Convention, which allow for copyrighted works to be used without...
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In Canadian copyright law there are several Limitations to Copyright. These limitations define the scope of copyright protection by placing limits on ability...
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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...
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Moral rights (redirect from Moral rights (copyright law))
rights are rights of creators of copyrighted works generally recognized in civil law jurisdictions and, to a lesser extent, in some common law jurisdictions...
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The Copyright Board of Canada (French: Commission du droit d'auteur du Canada) is an economic regulatory body empowered to establish, either mandatorily...
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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...
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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...
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efficient and focused copyright law, without the problems that led us to do away with them in the first place." In Canada, copyrighted works can be registered...
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"secondary infringement" are two instances of "indirect infringement" in Canadian copyright law. In cases of indirect infringement, individuals can be...
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