Copyright Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-42)

Section 30.62 — Encryption research

Encryption research Subject to subsections (2) and (3), it is not an infringement of copyright for a person to reproduce a work or other subject-matter for the…

Section 76.1 — Examination and fixing of royalty

Examination and fixing of royalty The Board shall consider a request by the Commissioner to examine an agreement and may, after giving the Commissioner and the…

Section 66.3 — Conflict of interest prohibited

Conflict of interest prohibited A member of the Board shall not, directly or indirectly, engage in any activity, have any interest in a business or accept or…

Section 44.1 — Damages against copyright owner

Damages against copyright owner The court may award damages against the owner of copyright who commenced proceedings referred to in subsection 44.04(3) to the…

Section 32.5 — Certain rights and interests protected

Certain rights and interests protected Notwithstanding section 27, where a person has, before the later of the coming into force of Part II and the day on…

Section 30.63 — Security

Security Subject to subsections (2) and (3), it is not an infringement of copyright for a person to reproduce a work or other subject-matter for the sole…

Section 91 — Adherence to Berne and Rome Conventions

Adherence to Berne and Rome Conventions The Governor in Council shall take such measures as are necessary to secure the adherence of Canada to the Convention…

Section 73.4 — Approval of request made under section 69

Approval of request made under section 69 If the Board approves an application made under section 69 , no proceedings may be brought against a person for the…

Section 43.1 — Limitation or prescription period for civil remedies

Limitation or prescription period for civil remedies Subject to subsection (2), a court may award a remedy for any act or omission that has been done contrary…

Section 74 — No application

No application An approved tariff and any royalty rates and related terms and conditions fixed by the Board under subsection 71 (2), as well as sections 73.2…

Section 30.02 — Exception — digital reproduction of works

digital reproduction of works Subject to subsections (3) to (5), it is not an infringement of copyright for an educational institution that has a reprographic…

Section 44.03 — Provision of information by customs officer

Provision of information by customs officer A customs officer who is detaining copies of a work or other subject-matter under section 101 of the Customs Act…

Section 34.1 — Presumptions respecting copyright and ownership

Presumptions respecting copyright and ownership In any civil proceedings taken under this Act in which the defendant puts in issue either the existence of the…

["PART IXGeneral Provisions", "— 1997, c. 24, s. 20(4)"]

1997, c. 24, s. 20(4) Section 39.1 of the Copyright Act , as enacted by subsection (1) of this section, applies in respect of proceedings commenced but not…

Section 56 — Copyright in subject-matter other than works

Copyright in subject-matter other than works Application for the registration of a copyright in subject-matter other than a work may be made by or on behalf of…

Section 28.2 — Nature of right of integrity

Nature of right of integrity The author’s or performer’s right to the integrity of a work or performer’s performance is infringed only if the work or the…

Section 41.16 — Persons with perceptual disabilities

Persons with perceptual disabilities Paragraph 41.1(1)(a) does not apply to a person with a perceptual disability, to another person acting at their request or…

Section 66.504 — Case manager

Case manager The Chair may assign a member, officer or employee of the Board or a person engaged under subsection 66.4(3) to act as a case manager of a matter…

Section 68.2 — Publication and notification

or cause it to be distributed or published, on any terms and conditions that the Board sees fit — of the publication of the tariff and of the notice referred…

Section 66.5 — Concluding matters after membership expires

Concluding matters after membership expires A member of the Board whose term expires may conclude the matters that the member has begun to consider. Matters…

Section 2.7 — Exclusive licence

Exclusive licence For the purposes of this Act, an exclusive licence is an authorization to do any act that is subject to copyright to the exclusion of all…

Section 77 — Application of section 5

Application of section 5 Nothing in section 5 of the Copyright Act , as amended by this Act, confers copyright on works made before the coming into force of…

["PART IXGeneral Provisions", "— 1993, c. 44, ss. 60(2), (3)"]

1993, c. 44, ss. 60(2), (3) Subject to subsection 75(2) of this Act, section 10 of the Copyright Act , as enacted by subsection (1) of this section, applies to…

Section 30.1 — Management and maintenance of collection

Management and maintenance of collection It is not an infringement of copyright for a library, archive or museum or a person acting under the authority of a…

Section 41.26 — Obligations related to notice

Obligations related to notice A person described in paragraph 41.25(1)(a) or (b) who receives a notice of claimed infringement that complies with subsections…

Section 77 — Circumstances in which licence may be issued by Board

Circumstances in which licence may be issued by Board Where, on application to the Board by a person who wishes to obtain a licence to use a published work, a…

Section 2.11 — Definition of maker

Definition of maker For greater certainty, the arrangements referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition maker in section 2, as that term is used in section…

Section 38.1 — Statutory damages

Statutory damages Subject to this section, a copyright owner may elect, at any time before final judgment is rendered, to recover, instead of damages and…

Section 33.1 — Certain rights and interests protected

Certain rights and interests protected Despite subsections 27(1), (2) and (4) and sections 27.1, 28.1 and 28.2, if a person has, before the later of the day on…

Section 68.3 — Filing of objection

Filing of objection An objection to a proposed tariff may be filed with the Board by an educational institution, if the proposed tariff is filed for the…

Section 22 — Reciprocity

Reciprocity If the Minister is of the opinion that a country other than a Rome Convention country or a WPPT country grants or has undertaken to grant to…

Section 44.01 — Prohibition on importation or exportation

Prohibition on importation or exportation Copies of a work or other subject-matter in which copyright subsists shall not be imported or exported if they were…

Section 69 — Request to withdraw or amend

Request to withdraw or amend A collective society may, before a proposed tariff filed by it has been approved by the Board, make an application to the Board…

Section 41.27 — Injunctive relief only — providers of information location tools

providers of information location tools In any proceedings for infringement of copyright, the owner of the copyright in a work or other subject-matter is not…

Section 75 — Application of certain amendments

Application of certain amendments Subject to subsection (2), amendments to the Copyright Act made by this Act relating to the term of copyright apply in…

Section 29.23 — Reproduction for later listening or viewing

Reproduction for later listening or viewing It is not an infringement of copyright for an individual to fix a communication signal, to reproduce a work or…

Section 84 — Distribution by collecting body

Distribution by collecting body As soon as practicable after receiving the levies paid to it, the collecting body shall distribute the levies to the collective…

Section 32.6 — Certain rights and interests protected

Certain rights and interests protected Despite sections 27, 28.1 and 28.2, if a person has, before the day on which subsection 15(1.1), 17.1(1) or 18(1.1)…

Section 31 — Interpretation

only by reason of the Exemption order for digital media broadcasting undertakings , issued by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission…

Section 41.12 — Interoperability

Interoperability Paragraph 41.1 (1)(a) does not apply to a person who circumvents a technological protection measure that protects a lawfully obtained computer…

Section 79 — Definitions

Definitions In this Part, audio recording medium means a recording medium, regardless of its material form, onto which a sound recording may be reproduced and…

Section 14 — Limitation where author is first owner of copyright

Limitation where author is first owner of copyright Where the author of a work is the first owner of the copyright therein, no assignment of the copyright and…

Section 44.04 — Provision of information to pursue remedy

Provision of information to pursue remedy A customs officer who is detaining copies of a work or other subject-matter under section 101 of the Customs Act and…

Section 85 — Reciprocity

Reciprocity Where the Minister is of the opinion that another country grants or has undertaken to grant to performers and makers of sound recordings that are…

Section 41.22 — Prohibition — rights management information

rights management information No person shall knowingly remove or alter any rights management information in electronic form without the consent of the owner…

Section 61 — Clerical errors do not invalidate

Clerical errors do not invalidate Clerical errors in any instrument of record in the Copyright Office do not invalidate the instrument, but they may be…

Section 64.1 — Non-infringement re useful article features

Non-infringement re useful article features The following acts do not constitute an infringement of the copyright or moral rights in a work: applying to a…

Section 40 — No injunction in case of a building

No injunction in case of a building Where the construction of a building or other structure that infringes or that, if completed, would infringe the copyright…

Section 83 — Filing of proposed tariffs

Filing of proposed tariffs Subject to subsection (14), each collective society may file with the Board a proposed tariff for the benefit of those eligible…

Section 19.2 — Deemed publication — WPPT country

WPPT country Despite subsection 2.2(1), a sound recording that has been made available to the public by telecommunication in a way that allows a member of the…

Section 33 — Certain rights and interests protected

Certain rights and interests protected Despite subsections 27(1), (2) and (4) and sections 27.1, 28.1 and 28.2, if a person has, before the later of January 1…

Section 29.22 — Reproduction for private purposes

Reproduction for private purposes It is not an infringement of copyright for an individual to reproduce a work or other subject-matter or any substantial part…

Section 66.502 — Informal and expeditious

Informal and expeditious All matters before the Board shall be dealt with as informally and expeditiously as the circumstances and considerations of fairness…

Section 66 — Establishment

Establishment There is established a Board to be known as the Copyright Board, consisting of not more than five members, including a Chair and a Vice-chair, to…

["PART IXGeneral Provisions", "— 1993, c. 44, ss. 60(2), (3)"]

1993, c. 44, ss. 60(2), (3) Except as provided by section 75 of this Act, section 11 of the Copyright Act , as enacted by subsection (1) of this section…

Section 43 — Infringement in case of dramatic, operatic or musical work

Infringement in case of dramatic, operatic or musical work Any person who, without the written consent of the owner of the copyright or of the legal…

Section 2.6 — Exclusive distributor

Exclusive distributor The Governor in Council may make regulations establishing distribution criteria for the purpose of paragraph (b) of the definition…

Section 6 — Term of copyright

Term of copyright Except as otherwise expressly provided by this Act, the term for which copyright subsists is the life of the author, the remainder of the…

Section 301 — Subsection 67.1(4)

Subsection 67.1(4) Subsection 67.1(4) of the Copyright Act , as it read immediately before the day on which this section comes into force, continues to apply…

Section 68 — Filing

Filing A proposed tariff must be filed no later than October 15 of the second calendar year before the calendar year in which the proposed tariff is to take…

Section 66.91 — Regulations

Regulations The Governor in Council may make regulations issuing policy directions to the Board and establishing general criteria to be applied by the Board or…

Section 2 — Definitions

Definitions In this Act, architectural work means any building or structure or any model of a building or structure; ( oeuvre architecturale ) architectural…

Section 30.61 — Interoperability of computer programs

Interoperability of computer programs It is not an infringement of copyright in a computer program for a person who owns a copy of the computer program that is…

Section 30 — Literary collections

Literary collections The publication in a collection, mainly composed of non-copyright matter, intended for the use of educational institutions, and so…

Section 32.02 — Definition of non-profit organization

Definition of non-profit organization In sections 32 and 32.01, non-profit organization includes a department, agency or other portion of any order of…

Section 41.13 — Encryption research

Encryption research Paragraph 41.1(1)(a) does not apply to a person who, for the purposes of encryption research, circumvents a technological protection…

Section 280 — No revival of copyright

No revival of copyright Section 6, subsections 6.2(2) and 7(1) and (3) and section 9 of the Copyright Act , as enacted by sections 276 to 279 , do not have the…

Section 38 — Recovery of possession of copies, plates

Recovery of possession of copies, plates Subject to subsection (2), the owner of the copyright in a work or other subject-matter may recover possession of all…

Section 29.5 — Performances

Performances It is not an infringement of copyright for an educational institution or a person acting under its authority to do the following acts if they are…

Section 44 — Definitions

Definitions The following definitions apply in sections 44.02 to 44.4. court means the Federal Court or the superior court of a province. ( tribunal ) customs…

Section 73.5 — Effect of fixing of royalties

Effect of fixing of royalties If any royalties or related terms and conditions are fixed under subsection 71 (2) in respect of a person, the person may, during…

Section 14.2 — Term

Term Moral rights in respect of a work subsist for the same term as the copyright in the work. The moral rights in respect of a work pass, on the death of its…

Section 60 — Engraving, photograph or portrait

Engraving, photograph or portrait Subsection 13(2) of the Copyright Act , as it read immediately before the coming into force of section 7 , continues to apply…

Section 23 — Application re moral rights

Application re moral rights The rights referred to in section 14.1 of the Copyright Act , as enacted by section 4, subsist in respect of a work even if the…

Section 66.1 — Duties of Chair

Duties of Chair The Chair shall direct the work of the Board and apportion its work among its members. If the Chair is absent or incapacitated or if the office…

Section 52 — Control of business and officials

Control of business and officials The Commissioner of Patents shall, subject to the Minister, oversee and direct the officers, clerks and employees of the…

Section 41.18 — Radio apparatus

Radio apparatus Paragraph 41.1(1)(a) does not apply to a person who circumvents a technological protection measure on a radio apparatus for the sole purpose of…

Section 45 — Exceptions

Exceptions Notwithstanding anything in this Act, it is lawful for a person to import for their own use not more than two copies of a work or other…

Section 33.2 — Certain rights and interests protected

Certain rights and interests protected Despite subsections 27(1), (2) and (4) and sections 27.1, 28.1 and 28.2, if a person has, before the later of the day on…

Section 73.1 — Order — compliance with terms and conditions

compliance with terms and conditions Without prejudice to any other remedies available to it, the collective society concerned may apply to a court of…

Section 66.501 — Fair and equitable

Fair and equitable The Board shall fix royalty and levy rates and any related terms and conditions under this Act that are fair and equitable, in consideration…

Section 24 — Ownership of copyright

Ownership of copyright The first owner of the copyright in a performer’s performance, is the performer; in a sound recording, is the maker; or in a…

Section 6.1 — Anonymous and pseudonymous works

Anonymous and pseudonymous works Except as provided in section 6.2 and in subsection (2), where the identity of the author of a work is unknown, copyright in…

Section 27.1 — Importation of books

Importation of books Subject to any regulations made under subsection (6), it is an infringement of copyright in a book for any person to import the book where…

Section 41.24 — Concurrent jurisdiction of Federal Court

Concurrent jurisdiction of Federal Court The Federal Court has concurrent jurisdiction with provincial courts to hear and determine all proceedings, other than…

Section 76 — Cinematographs

Cinematographs Except as provided by subsection (2) of this section, the Copyright Act , as amended by this Act, applies in respect of all cinematographs…

Section 29.1 — Criticism or review

Criticism or review Fair dealing for the purpose of criticism or review does not infringe copyright if the following are mentioned: the source; and if given in…

Section 54.1

Section 54.1 Section 6 of the Copyright Act applies to a photograph in which copyright subsists on the date of the coming into force of this section, if the…

Section 2.4 — Communication to the public by telecommunication

Communication to the public by telecommunication For the purposes of communication to the public by telecommunication, persons who occupy apartments, hotel…

Section 44.2 — Importation of books

Importation of books A court may, subject to this section, make an order described in subsection 44.12(3) in relation to a book where the court is satisfied…

Section 58 — Execution of instruments

Execution of instruments Any assignment of a copyright, or any licence granting an interest in a copyright, may be executed, subscribed or acknowledged at any…

Section 7 — Term of copyright in certain posthumous works

or, in the case of a work of joint authorship, at or immediately before the date of the death of the author who dies last — but which has not been published…

Section 71.1 — Agreement

Agreement The Board shall not proceed with an application under section 71 in respect of any matter in issue on which an agreement has been reached, if a…

Section 30.8 — Ephemeral recordings

Ephemeral recordings It is not an infringement of copyright for a programming undertaking to fix or reproduce in accordance with this section a performer’s…

Section 16 — Contractual arrangements

Contractual arrangements Nothing in section 15 prevents the performer from entering into a contract governing the use of the performer’s performance for the…

Section 29.7 — Reproduction of broadcast

Reproduction of broadcast Subject to subsection (2) and section 29.9, it is not an infringement of copyright for an educational institution or a person acting…

Section 44.02 — Request for assistance

Request for assistance The owner of copyright in a work or other subject-matter may file with the Minister, in the form and manner specified by the Minister, a…

Section 17.1 — Moral rights

Moral rights In the cases referred to in subsections 15(2.1) and (2.2), a performer of a live aural performance or a performance fixed in a sound recording…

Section 66.71 — Distribution, publication of notices

Distribution, publication of notices Independently of any other provision of this Act relating to the distribution or publication of information or documents…

Section 41.121 — Diagnosis, maintenance and repair

Diagnosis, maintenance and repair Paragraph 41.1(1)(a) does not apply to a person who circumvents a technological protection measure for the sole purpose of…

Section 39 — Injunction only remedy when defendant not aware of copyright

Injunction only remedy when defendant not aware of copyright Subject to subsection (2), in any proceedings for infringement of copyright, the plaintiff is not…

Section 32.4 — Certain rights and interests protected

Certain rights and interests protected Notwithstanding section 27, where a person has, before the later of January 1, 1996 and the day on which a country…

Section 21 — Copyright in communication signals

Copyright in communication signals Subject to subsection (2), a broadcaster has a copyright in the communication signals that it broadcasts, consisting of the…

Section 82 — Liability to pay levy

Liability to pay levy Every person who, for the purpose of trade, manufactures a blank audio recording medium in Canada or imports a blank audio recording…

Section 27 — Infringement generally

Infringement generally It is an infringement of copyright for any person to do, without the consent of the owner of the copyright, anything that by this Act…

Section 90 — Interpretation

Interpretation No provision of this Act relating to copyright in performer’s performances, sound recordings or communication signals, or the right of…

Section 14.1 — Moral rights

Moral rights The author of a work has, subject to section 28.2, the right to the integrity of the work and, in connection with an act mentioned in section 3…

Section 32.3 — No right to equitable remuneration

No right to equitable remuneration For the purposes of sections 29 to 32.2, an act that does not infringe copyright does not give rise to a right to…

Section 30.04 — Work available through Internet

Work available through Internet Subject to subsections (2) to (5), it is not an infringement of copyright for an educational institution, or a person acting…

Section 73.3 — Proceedings barred — tariff

tariff No proceedings may be brought against a person for the infringement of a right with respect to an act referred to in section 3, 15, 18 or 21 if the…

Section 17 — Cinematographic works

Cinematographic works Where the performer authorizes the embodiment of the performer’s performance in a cinematographic work, the performer may no longer…

Section 56

Section 56 Nothing in this Act shall be construed as diminishing the right conferred by section 14.01 of the Copyright Act as that section read immediately…

Section 26 — Performer’s performance in WTO country

Performer’s performance in WTO country Where a performer’s performance takes place on or after January 1, 1996 in a country that is a WTO Member, the performer…

Section 40

Section 40 The definition new media retransmitter in subsection 31(1) of the Act is repealed. The definition retransmitter in subsection 31(1) of the Act is…

Section 56.1 — Recovery of damages

Recovery of damages Where a person purports to have the authority to apply for the registration of a copyright under section 55 or 56 on behalf of another…

Section 19 — Right to remuneration — Canada

Canada If a sound recording has been published, the performer and maker are entitled, subject to subsection 20 (1), to be paid equitable remuneration for its…

Section 70.1 — Publication of approved tariff

Publication of approved tariff The Board shall publish the approved tariff in the Canada Gazette and provide a copy of it, together with the reasons for the…

Section 66.52 — Variation of decisions

Variation of decisions A decision of the Board respecting royalties or their related terms and conditions that is made under subsection 70(1), 71(2), 76.1(1)…

Section 299 — Paragraphs 66.501(a) and (b)

Paragraphs 66.501(a) and (b) The Copyright Board is not required to consider the criteria set out in paragraphs 66.501(a) and (b) of the Copyright Act , as…

Section 64 — Interpretation

Interpretation In this section and section 64.1, article means any thing that is made by hand, tool or machine; ( objet ) design means features of shape…

Section 9 — Cases of joint authorship

Cases of joint authorship In the case of a work of joint authorship, except as provided in section 6.2 or subsection 7(1) or (3), copyright subsists during the…

Section 41.14 — Personal information

Personal information Paragraph 41.1(1)(a) does not apply to a person who circumvents a technological protection measure if the work, performer’s performance…

Section 55 — Copyright in works

Copyright in works Application for the registration of a copyright in a work may be made by or on behalf of the author of the work, the owner of the copyright…

Section 44.12 — Power of court

Power of court A court may make an order described in subsection (3) if the court is satisfied that copies of the work are about to be imported into Canada, or…

Section 73 — Effect of fixing royalties

Effect of fixing royalties Without prejudice to any other remedies available to it, the collective society concerned may collect the royalties specified in an…

Section 41.11 — Law enforcement and national security

Law enforcement and national security Paragraph 41.1(1)(a) does not apply if a technological protection measure is circumvented for the purposes of an…

Section 20 — Conditions — Canada

Canada The right to remuneration conferred by subsection 19 (1) applies only if the maker was, at the date of the first fixation, a Canadian citizen or…

Section 41.17 — Broadcasting undertakings

Broadcasting undertakings Paragraph 41.1(1)(a) does not apply to a broadcasting undertaking that circumvents a technological protection measure for the sole…

Section 69.1 — Approval by Board

Approval by Board The Board shall approve an application made under section 69 if it is satisfied that the collective society has provided sufficient public…

Section 5 — Conditions for subsistence of copyright

Conditions for subsistence of copyright Subject to this Act, copyright shall subsist in Canada, for the term hereinafter mentioned, in every original literary…

Section 41.25 — Notice of claimed infringement

Notice of claimed infringement An owner of the copyright in a work or other subject-matter may send a notice of claimed infringement to a person who provides…

Section 41.1 — Prohibition

Prohibition No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure within the meaning of paragraph (a) of the definition technological protection…

Section 18 — Copyright in sound recordings

Copyright in sound recordings Subject to subsection (2), the maker of a sound recording has a copyright in the sound recording, consisting of the sole right to…

Section 29.9 — Records and marking

Records and marking Where an educational institution or person acting under its authority makes a copy of a work or other subject-matter communicated to the…

Section 41.23 — Protection of separate rights

Protection of separate rights Subject to this section, the owner of any copyright, or any person or persons deriving any right, title or interest by assignment…

Section 75 — Claims by non-members

Claims by non-members An owner of copyright who does not authorize a collective society to collect, for that person’s benefit, royalties referred to in…

Section 2.3 — Telecommunication

Telecommunication A person who communicates a work or other subject-matter to the public by telecommunication does not by that act alone perform it in public…

Section 32.01 — Print disability — outside Canada

outside Canada Subject to this section, it is not an infringement of copyright for a non-profit organization acting for the benefit of persons with a print…

Section 25 — Making of records, perforated rolls, etc.

Making of records, perforated rolls, etc. It shall be deemed not to be an infringement of copyright in any musical, literary or dramatic work for any person to…

Section 61 — No revival of copyright

No revival of copyright Subsections 23(1) to (2) of the Copyright Act , as enacted by section 17 , do not have the effect of reviving the copyright, or a right…

Section 44.07 — Liability for charges

and, if applicable, for the charges for destroying them — for the period beginning on the day after the day on which a customs officer first sends or makes…

Section 30.7 — Incidental use

Incidental use It is not an infringement of copyright to incidentally and not deliberately include a work or other subject-matter in another work or other…

Section 24 — Application re computer programs

Application re computer programs Subsection 1(2), the definition computer program in subsection 1(3) and section 5 apply in respect of a computer program that…

Section 19.1 — Deemed publication — Canada

Canada Despite subsection 2.2(1), a sound recording that has been made available to the public by telecommunication in a way that allows a member of the public…

["PART IXGeneral Provisions", "— 1997, c. 24, s. 18(2)"]

1997, c. 24, s. 18(2) Section 30 of the Act, as enacted by subsection (1) of this section, does not apply in respect of collections referred to in section 30…

Section 30.03 — Royalties — digital reproduction agreement

digital reproduction agreement If an educational institution has paid royalties to a collective society for the digital reproduction of a work under paragraph…

Section 57

Section 57 For greater certainty, the amendments to the Copyright Act that eliminate references to “British subject” and “Her Majesty’s Realms and Territories”…

Section 25 — Assignment of rights

Assignment of rights Subsections 13(4) to (7) apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require, in respect of the rights conferred by this Part on…

Section 2.5 — What constitutes rental

What constitutes rental For the purposes of paragraphs 3(1)(h) and (i), 15(1)(c) and 18(1)(c), an arrangement, whatever its form, constitutes a rental of a…

Section 31.1 — Network services

Network services A person who, in providing services related to the operation of the Internet or another digital network, provides any means for the…

Section 39.1 — Wide injunction

Wide injunction When granting an injunction in respect of an infringement of copyright in a work or other subject-matter, the court may further enjoin the…

Section 34 — No revival of copyright

No revival of copyright Sections 6.1, 6.2 and 11.1, paragraphs 23(1)(a) and (b) and subsection 23(1.1) of the Copyright Act , as enacted by sections 24 , 26…

Section 44.06 — Inspection

Inspection After a sample or information has been provided under subsection 44.04(1), a customs officer may, in the officer’s discretion, give the owner…

Section 41 — Definitions

Definitions The following definitions apply in this section and in sections 41.1 to 41.21. circumvent means, in respect of a technological protection measure…

Section 1 — Short title

Short title This Act may be cited as the Copyright Act .

Section 44.09 — Application to court

Application to court In the course of proceedings referred to in subsection 44.04 (3), the court may, on the application of the Minister or a party to the…

Section 66.6 — Regulations

Regulations The Board may, with the approval of the Governor in Council, make regulations governing the practice and procedure in respect of the Board’s…

Section 58.1

Section 58.1 No agreement concluded before April 25, 1996 that assigns a right or grants an interest by licence in a right that would be a copyright or a right…

Section 64.2 — Application of Act to topographies

Application of Act to topographies This Act does not apply, and shall be deemed never to have applied, to any topography or to any design, however expressed…

Section 54 — Register of Copyrights

Register of Copyrights The Minister shall cause to be kept at the Copyright Office a register to be called the Register of Copyrights in which may be entered…

Section 55

Section 55 Part II of the Copyright Act , as enacted by section 14 of this Act, shall be construed as a replacement for subsections 5(3) to (6) and section 11…

Section 44.05 — Restriction on information use — section 44.03

section 44.03 A person who receives a sample or information that is provided under section 44.03 shall not use the information, or information that is derived…

Section 29.21 — Non-commercial user-generated content

Non-commercial user-generated content It is not an infringement of copyright for an individual to use an existing work or other subject-matter or copy of one…

Section 15 — Copyright in performer’s performance

Copyright in performer’s performance Subject to subsection

Section 66.4 — Staff

Staff Such officers and employees as are necessary for the proper conduct of the work of the Board shall be appointed in accordance with the Public Service…

Section 66.8 — Studies

Studies The Board shall conduct such studies with respect to the exercise of its powers as are requested by the Minister.

Section 29.2 — News reporting

News reporting Fair dealing for the purpose of news reporting does not infringe copyright if the following are mentioned: the source; and if given in the…

Section 87 — Regulations

Regulations The Governor in Council may make regulations respecting the exemptions and refunds provided for in section 86, including, without limiting the…

Section 68.1 — Form and content

Form and content A proposed tariff must be filed in both official languages and include the acts to which the tariff is to apply; the proposed royalty rates…

Section 71 — Application to fix

Application to fix If a collective society and a user are unable to agree on royalties to be paid with respect to rights under section 3, 15, 18, 19 or 21…

Section 13 — Ownership of copyright

Ownership of copyright Subject to this Act, the author of a work shall be the first owner of the copyright therein. Where the author of a work was in the…

Section 76 — Definition of Commissioner

Definition of Commissioner For the purposes of this section and section 76.1 , Commissioner means the Commissioner of Competition appointed under the…

Section 30.9 — Ephemeral recordings — broadcasting undertaking

broadcasting undertaking It is not an infringement of copyright for a broadcasting undertaking to reproduce in accordance with this section a sound recording…

Section 80 — Where no infringement of copyright

Where no infringement of copyright Subject to subsection (2), the act of reproducing all or any substantial part of a musical work embodied in a sound…

Section 57 — Registration of assignment or licence

Registration of assignment or licence The Registrar of Copyrights shall register an assignment of copyright, or a licence granting an interest in a copyright…

Section 66.2 — Remuneration and expenses

Remuneration and expenses The members of the Board shall be paid such remuneration as may be fixed by the Governor in Council and are entitled to be paid…

Section 60 — Subsistence of substituted right

Subsistence of substituted right Where any person is immediately before January 1, 1924 entitled to any right in any work that is set out in column I of…

Section 2.2 — Definition of publication

Definition of publication For the purposes of this Act, publication means in relation to works, making copies of a work available to the public, the…

Section 53 — Register to be evidence

Register to be evidence The Register of Copyrights is evidence of the particulars entered in it, and a copy of an entry in the Register is evidence of the…

Section 67.2 — Requests regarding repertoire

Requests regarding repertoire A collective society shall answer, within a reasonable time, all reasonable requests from any person for information about its…

Section 70 — Approval

approve the proposed tariff after making any alterations to the royalty rates and the related terms and conditions, or fixing any new related terms and…

Section 47 — Powers of Commissioner and Registrar

Powers of Commissioner and Registrar The Commissioner of Patents shall exercise the powers conferred and perform the duties imposed on him by this Act under…

Section 86 — Where no levy payable

Where no levy payable No levy is payable under this Part where the manufacturer or importer of a blank audio recording medium sells or otherwise disposes of it…

Section 59 — No revival of copyright in photograph

No revival of copyright in photograph The repeal of section 10 of the Copyright Act by section 6 does not have the effect of reviving copyright in any…

Section 26 — Infringements before coming into force

Infringements before coming into force Subsection 64(1) and section 64.1 of the Copyright Act , as enacted by section 11, apply in respect of any alleged…

Section 12 — Where copyright belongs to Her Majesty

Where copyright belongs to Her Majesty Without prejudice to any rights or privileges of the Crown, where any work is, or has been, prepared or published by or…

Section 38.2 — Maximum amount that may be recovered

Maximum amount that may be recovered An owner of copyright in a work who has not authorized a collective society to authorize its reprographic reproduction may…

Section 6.2 — Anonymous and pseudonymous works of joint authorship

Anonymous and pseudonymous works of joint authorship Except as provided in subsection (2), where the identity of all the authors of a work of joint authorship…

Section 88 — Right of recovery

Right of recovery Without prejudice to any other remedies available to it, the collecting body may, for the period specified in an approved tariff, collect the…

Section 29.24 — Backup copies

a copy of the work or subject-matter (in this section referred to as the “source copy”) to reproduce the source copy if the person does so solely for backup…

Section 11.1 — Cinematographic works

Cinematographic works Except for cinematographic works in which the arrangement or acting form or the combination of incidents represented give the work a…

Section 68.4 — Reply to objection

Reply to objection The collective society may file a reply to an objection with the Board. The Board shall provide a copy of the filed reply to the person or…

Section 29 — Research, private study, etc.

Research, private study, etc. Fair dealing for the purpose of research, private study, education, parody or satire does not infringe copyright.

Section 30.2 — Research or private study

Research or private study It is not an infringement of copyright for a library, archive or museum or a person acting under its authority to do anything on…

Section 62 — Coming into force

Coming into force The following provisions come into force or are deemed to have come into force on June 30, 1996: the definitions exclusive distributor…

Section 41.15 — Security

Security Paragraph 41.1(1)(a) does not apply to a person who circumvents a technological protection measure that is subject to that paragraph for the sole…

Section 49 — Register of Copyrights, certificates and certified copies

Register of Copyrights, certificates and certified copies The Commissioner of Patents, the Registrar of Copyrights or an officer, clerk or employee of the…

Section 50 — Other duties of Registrar

Other duties of Registrar The Registrar of Copyrights shall perform such other duties in connection with the administration of this Act as may be assigned to…

Section 54

Section 54 For greater certainty, all notices published under subsection 5(2) of the Copyright Act before the coming into force of this section are deemed to…

Section 67 — Filing of proposed tariffs

Filing of proposed tariffs A collective society may file a proposed tariff with the Board for the purpose of establishing royalties with respect to rights the…

Section 30.21 — Copying works deposited in archive

Copying works deposited in archive Subject to subsections (3) and (3.1), it is not an infringement of copyright for an archive to make, for any person…

Section 30.4 — Application to libraries, etc. within educational institutions

Application to libraries, etc. within educational institutions For greater certainty, the exceptions to infringement of copyright provided for under sections…

Section 32.1 — No infringement

No infringement It is not an infringement of copyright for any person to disclose, pursuant to the Access to Information Act , a record within the meaning of…

Section 58

Section 58 Nothing in this Act shall be construed as reviving a copyright that expired before the coming into force of this section.

Section 2.1 — Compilations

Compilations A compilation containing two or more of the categories of literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works shall be deemed to be a compilation of the…

Section 30.3 — No infringement by educational institution, etc.

No infringement by educational institution, etc. An educational institution or a library, archive or museum does not infringe copyright where a copy of a work…

Section 30.71 — Temporary reproductions

Temporary reproductions It is not an infringement of copyright to make a reproduction of a work or other subject-matter if the reproduction forms an essential…

Section 66.9 — Report

Report The Board shall, not later than August 31 in each year, submit to the Governor in Council through the Minister an annual report on the Board’s…

Section 72 — Special royalty rates

Special royalty rates Subsections (2) and (3) apply despite the tariffs approved by the Board under section 70 , or despite the royalty rates fixed under…

Section 32.2 — Permitted acts

Permitted acts It is not an infringement of copyright for an author of an artistic work who is not the owner of the copyright in the work to use any mould…

Section 62 — Limitation or prescription period

Limitation or prescription period Subsection 43.1(1) of the Copyright Act , as enacted by section 49 , applies only to proceedings with respect to an act or…

Section 66.7 — General powers, etc.

General powers, etc. The Board has, with respect to the attendance, swearing and examination of witnesses, the production and inspection of documents, the…

Section 29.6 — News and commentary

News and commentary It is not an infringement of copyright for an educational institution or a person acting under its authority to make, at the time of its…

Section 66.503 — For greater certainty

For greater certainty For greater certainty, any person or entity may authorize any other person or entity to act on their behalf in any matter before the…

Section 89 — No copyright, etc., except by statute

No copyright, etc., except by statute No person is entitled to copyright otherwise than under and in accordance with this Act or any other Act of Parliament…

Section 35 — Liability for infringement

Liability for infringement Where a person infringes copyright, the person is liable to pay such damages to the owner of the copyright as the owner has suffered…

Section 78 — Board may determine compensation

Board may determine compensation Subject to subsection (2), for the purposes of subsections 32.4(2), 32.5(2), 33(2), 33.1(2) and 33.2(2), the Board may, on…

Section 23 — Term of copyright — performer’s performance

performer’s performance Subject to this Act, copyright in a performer’s performance subsists until the end of 50 years after the end of the calendar year in…

Section 34 — Copyright

Copyright Where copyright has been infringed, the owner of the copyright is, subject to this Act, entitled to all remedies by way of injunction, damages…

Section 28.1 — Infringement generally

Infringement generally Any act or omission that is contrary to any of the moral rights of the author of a work or of the performer of a performer’s performance…

Section 59 — Fees regulations

Fees regulations The Governor in Council may make regulations prescribing fees, or the manner of determining fees, to be paid for anything required or…

Section 29.8 — Unlawful reception

Unlawful reception The exceptions to infringement of copyright provided for under sections 29.5 to 29.7 do not apply where the communication to the public by…

Section 300 — Subsections 68.1(2) and 83(4)

Subsections 68.1(2) and 83(4) Neither subsection 68.1(2) nor subsection 83(4) of the Copyright Act , as enacted by sections 296 and 297 of this Act…

Section 66.51 — Interim decisions

Interim decisions The Board may, on application, make an interim decision.

Section 30.5 — Permitted acts

Permitted acts It is not an infringement of copyright for the Librarian and Archivist of Canada under the Library and Archives of Canada Act , to make a copy…

Section 72.1 — Radio performances in places other than theatres

Radio performances in places other than theatres In respect of public performances by means of any radio receiving set in any place other than a theatre that…

Section 82 — No revival of copyright

No revival of copyright Paragraph 23(1)(b) and subsection 23(1.1) of the Copyright Act , as enacted by section 81 , do not have the effect of reviving the…

Section 73.2 — Continuation of rights

Continuation of rights If a proposed tariff’s effective period begins before the proposed tariff is approved, and immediately after the expiry of the previous…

Section 46 — Copyright Office

Copyright Office The Copyright Office shall be attached to the Patent Office.

Section 42 — Offences

Offences Every person commits an offence who knowingly makes for sale or rental an infringing copy of a work or other subject-matter in which copyright…

Section 30.6 — Permitted acts

Permitted acts It is not an infringement of copyright in a computer program for a person who owns a copy of the computer program that is authorized by the…

Section 63

Section 63 No exclusive distributor, within the meaning assigned to that expression by subsection 62(2) of this Act, copyright owner or exclusive licensee is…

Section 29.4 — Reproduction for instruction

Reproduction for instruction It is not an infringement of copyright for an educational institution or a person acting under its authority for the purposes of…

Section 17.2 — Application and term

Application and term Subsection 17.1(1) applies only in respect of a performer’s performance that occurs after the coming into force of that subsection. The…

Section 29.3 — Motive of gain

Motive of gain No action referred to in section 29.4, 29.5, 30.2 or 30.21 may be carried out with motive of gain. An educational institution, library, archive…

Section 48 — Registrar

Registrar There shall be a Registrar of Copyrights.

Section 62 — Regulations

Regulations The Governor in Council may make regulations for the purposes of paragraph 30.01(6)(d), respecting measures, which may vary according to…

Section 41.21 — Regulations

Regulations The Governor in Council may make regulations excluding from the application of section 41.1 any technological protection measure that protects a…

Section 92 — Review of Act

Review of Act Five years after the day on which this section comes into force and at the end of each subsequent period of five years, a committee of the…

Section 67.1 — Designation of collective society — paragraph 19(2)(a)

paragraph 19(2)(a) On application by a collective society, the Board may designate the collective society as the sole collective society authorized to collect…

Section 21 — Application

Application Subsection (1) applies in respect of unpublished works deposited in an archive on or before September 1, 1999 or at any time after that date.

Section 44.4 — Importation of other subject-matter

Importation of other subject-matter Section 44.12 applies, with such modifications as the circumstances require, in respect of a sound recording, performer’s…

Section 44.3 — Limitation

Limitation No exclusive licensee of the copyright in a book in Canada, and no exclusive distributor of a book, may obtain an order under section 44.2 against…

Section 44.08 — No liability

No liability Neither Her Majesty nor a customs officer is liable for any loss or damage suffered in relation to the enforcement or application of sections…

Section 41.2 — Injunction only remedy

Injunction only remedy If a court finds that a defendant that is a library, archive or museum or an educational institution has contravened subsection 41.1(1)…

Section 30.01 — Meaning of lesson

Meaning of lesson For the purposes of this section, lesson means a lesson, test or examination, or part of one, in which, or during the course of which, an act…

Section 32 — Reproduction in alternate format

Reproduction in alternate format It is not an infringement of copyright for a person with a perceptual disability, for a person acting at the request of such a…

Section 41.19 — Reduction of damages

Reduction of damages A court may reduce or remit the amount of damages it awards in the circumstances described in subsection 41.1(1) if the defendant…

Section 81 — Right of remuneration

Right of remuneration Subject to and in accordance with this Part, eligible authors, eligible performers and eligible makers have a right to receive…

Section 44.11 — Importation of certain copyright works prohibited

Importation of certain copyright works prohibited Copies made outside Canada of any work in which copyright subsists that if made in Canada would infringe…

Section 3 — Copyright in works

Copyright in works For the purposes of this Act, copyright , in relation to a work, means the sole right to produce or reproduce the work or any substantial…

Section 44.09 — Application to court

Application to court (3), the court may, on the application of the Minister or a party to the proceedings, require the owner of copyright to furnish security…

Section 20 — Conditions — Canada

Canada (1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act or, if a corporation, had its headquarters in Canada, the Minister may, by a statement published in…

Section 30.2 — Research or private study

Research or private study (2) with the copy only on the condition that the person is provided with a single copy of the work; and the library, archive or…

Section 85 — Reciprocity

Reciprocity (1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act or, if corporations, have their headquarters in Canada, as the case may be, whether by treaty…

Section 31.1 — Network services

Network services (4) does not apply in respect of a work or other subject-matter if the person providing the digital memory knows of a decision of a court of…

Section 75 — Claims by non-members

Claims by non-members (2) is the only remedy of the owner of the copyright for the payment of royalties for the communication, making of the copy or sound…

Section 7 — Term of copyright in certain posthumous works

Term of copyright in certain posthumous works (1) would apply to that work had it been published or performed in public or communicated to the public by…

Section 30.9 — Ephemeral recordings — broadcasting undertaking

broadcasting undertaking (2) available to owners of copyright in the sound recordings, performer’s performances or works, or their representatives, within…

Section 44.12 — Power of court

Power of court (1), the court may require the applicant to furnish security, in an amount fixed by the court, to cover duties, storage and handling charges and…

Section 3 — Copyright in works

Copyright in works embodied, and in the case of a work that is in the form of a tangible object, to sell or otherwise transfer ownership of the tangible…

Section 32.2 — Permitted acts

Permitted acts unless the individual and the owner of the copyright in the photograph or portrait have agreed otherwise. It is not an infringement of copyright…

Section 17 — Cinematographic works

Cinematographic works (1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and whose performer’s performances are embodied in works other than the prescribed…

Section 2.4 — Communication to the public by telecommunication

Communication to the public by telecommunication (1)(c) or 3 (1)(f) where a signal carrying the work is retransmitted to a person who is a retransmitter within…

Section 41.1 — Prohibition

that are or may be conferred by law for the infringement of copyright against the person who contravened that paragraph. The owner of the copyright in a work…

Section 18 — Copyright in sound recordings

Copyright in sound recordings (1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act , was a citizen or permanent resident of a Berne Convention country, a Rome…

Section 38.1 — Statutory damages

Statutory damages (1) with respect to a defendant’s infringements that are for non-commercial purposes, every other copyright owner is barred from electing to…

Section 38 — Recovery of possession of copies, plates

Recovery of possession of copies, plates (2), the court shall have regard to all the circumstances, including the proportion, importance and value of the…

Section 13 — Ownership of copyright

Ownership of copyright as the owner of the copyright, and this Act has effect accordingly. For greater certainty, it is deemed always to have been the law that…

Section 41.21 — Regulations

Regulations (1)(a) does not apply, having regard to the following factors: whether not being permitted to circumvent a technological protection measure that is…

Section 83 — Filing of proposed tariffs

Filing of proposed tariffs (2), no later than that day. The Board shall provide a copy of the filed objection to each collective society concerned. Each…

Section 79 — Definitions

Definitions (1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act , and copyright subsists in Canada in the sound recording, or the maker, at the date of that…

Section 44.07 — Liability for charges

Liability for charges (1)(c), if the copies are forfeited under subsection 39 (1) of the Customs Act after the Minister has received the written notification…

Section 70 — Approval

Approval (2)(d). For greater certainty, the Board may determine, in respect of any tariff that it approves, the portion of the royalties that is to be paid to…

Section 41.22 — Prohibition — rights management information

rights management information (2) has the same remedies against a person who, without the owner’s consent, knowingly does any of the following acts with…

Section 32 — Reproduction in alternate format

Reproduction in alternate format (1) does not apply if the work or other subject-matter is commercially available, within the meaning of paragraph (a) of the…

Section 60 — Subsistence of substituted right

Subsistence of substituted right or perform the work in like manner as theretofore subject to the payment, if demanded by the author within three years after…

Section 32.01 — Print disability — outside Canada

outside Canada (1)(b) does not apply if the work or other subject-matter, in the format specially designed for persons with a print disability, is available in…

Section 30.02 — Exception — digital reproduction of works

digital reproduction of works (1)(b), the royalties that would be payable if one reprographic reproduction were distributed by the institution to each of those…

Section 27 — Infringement generally

that the person knows or should have known was made without the consent of the owner of the copyright in the country where the copy was made. Subsection (2.11)…

Section 30.01 — Meaning of lesson

Meaning of lesson (3)(a). It is not an infringement of copyright for a student who has received a lesson by means of communication by telecommunication under…

Section 26 — Performer’s performance in WTO country

Performer’s performance in WTO country (3) as of the date the country becomes a WTO Member. The rights conferred by this section subsist for the remainder of…

Section 27.1 — Importation of books

Importation of books (2) only apply where there is an exclusive distributor of the book and the acts described in those subsections take place in the part of…

Section 29.22 — Reproduction for private purposes

Reproduction for private purposes (1) does not apply if the individual gives away, rents or sells the copy of the work or other subject-matter from which the…

Section 2 — Definitions

Definitions (1); ( Commission ) book means a volume or a part or division of a volume, in printed form, but does not include a pamphlet, a newspaper, review…

Section 41.12 — Interoperability

Interoperability (3) is provided may use it only for the purpose of making the computer program and any other computer program interoperable. A person to whom…

Section 30.3 — No infringement by educational institution, etc.

No infringement by educational institution, etc. (1) applies only in respect of the works of the copyright owner that are covered by the agreement. The…

Section 29.21 — Non-commercial user-generated content

Non-commercial user-generated content (1). intermediary means a person or entity who regularly provides space or means for works or other subject-matter to be…

Section 30.04 — Work available through Internet

is protected by a technological protection measure that restricts the doing of that act; or a clearly visible notice — and not merely the copyright symbol —…

Section 31 — Interpretation

Interpretation (2)(e), and specifying whether any such condition applies to all retransmitters or only to a class of retransmitter.

Section 44.04 — Provision of information to pursue remedy

Provision of information to pursue remedy (1). At the request of the copyright owner made while the copies are detained for the purpose of enforcing section…

Section 41.27 — Injunctive relief only — providers of information location tools

providers of information location tools (3) after the work or other subject-matter has been removed from the electronic location set out in the notice, then…

Section 30.03 — Royalties — digital reproduction agreement

digital reproduction agreement (3)(a) for the digital reproduction of that work from the day on which that paragraph comes into force until the day on which…

Section 15 — Copyright in performer’s performance

Copyright in performer’s performance (2), a performer has a copyright in the performer’s performance, consisting of the sole right to do the following in…

Section 34 — Copyright

Copyright (3). The rules of practice and procedure, in civil matters, of the court in which proceedings are commenced by way of application apply to those…

Section 64 — Interpretation

Interpretation (2) does not apply in respect of the copyright or the moral rights in an artistic work in so far as the work is used as or for a graphic or…

Section 42 — Offences

Offences (2) is liable on conviction on indictment, to a fine of not more than $1,000,000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years or to both…

Section 5 — Conditions for subsistence of copyright

Conditions for subsistence of copyright (1), a country that becomes a Berne Convention country, a WCT country or a WTO Member after the date of the making or…

Section 34.1 — Presumptions respecting copyright and ownership

Presumptions respecting copyright and ownership (1) is at issue and no assignment of the copyright, or licence granting an interest in the copyright, has been…

Section 19 — Right to remuneration — Canada

Canada (2), to be paid equitable remuneration for its performance in public or its communication to the public by telecommunication, except for a communication…

Section 23 — Term of copyright — performer’s performance

performer’s performance makers by section 19 have the same terms, respectively, as those provided by subsections (1) and (1.1). Subsections (1) to (2) apply…

Section 62 — Coming into force

Coming into force (1)(e) of the Copyright Act , as enacted by section 28 of this Act, shall be read as follows for the period beginning on June 30, 1996 and…

Section 22 — Reciprocity

Reciprocity (1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act or, if corporations, have their headquarters in Canada, as the case may be, whether by treaty…

Section 30.8 — Ephemeral recordings

Ephemeral recordings (6). Where the copyright owner authorizes the fixation or reproduction to be retained after the thirty days, the programming undertaking…

Section 44.07 — Liability for charges

Liability for charges (1); and the Minister has not, by the end of the detention, received a copy of a document filed with a court commencing proceedings to…

Section 5 — Conditions for subsistence of copyright

Conditions for subsistence of copyright (1), except in so far as the protection conferred by this Act is extended as hereinafter provided to foreign countries…

Section 38.1 — Statutory damages

Statutory damages (2) and the defendant has not paid them. If they make the election, the collective society or copyright owner may only recover, in lieu of…

Section 15 — Copyright in performer’s performance

Copyright in performer’s performance it; to make a sound recording of it available to the public by telecommunication in a way that allows a member of the…

Section 42 — Offences

Offences (3), the court shall require that notice be given to the owner of the copies or plates and to any other person who, in the court’s opinion, appears to…

Section 41.21 — Regulations

Regulations (1)(a) prescribed under paragraph (a). The regulations may prescribe the manner in which, and the time within which, access is to be provided, as…

Section 30.2 — Research or private study

Research or private study (5), provide a copy in digital form to a person who has requested it through another library, archive or museum if the providing…

Section 30.8 — Ephemeral recordings

Ephemeral recordings (1) of the Broadcasting Act , that is carried on lawfully under that Act; a programming undertaking described in paragraph (a) that…

Section 30.03 — Royalties — digital reproduction agreement

pay a lesser amount of royalties for the digital reproduction of that work than what was payable under paragraph 30.02 (3)(a), the collective society to which…

Section 44.12 — Power of court

Power of court (1)(b) and (c) existed, the court may make any order that it considers appropriate in the circumstances, including an order that the copies of…

Section 83 — Filing of proposed tariffs

from the start of the effective period of the proposed tariff until the earlier of its approval and the end of its effective period — the collecting body may…

Section 27 — Infringement generally

Infringement generally (6)(b), (c) or (d). It is an infringement of copyright for a person, by means of the Internet or another digital network, to provide a…

Section 30.02 — Exception — digital reproduction of works

digital reproduction of works (5), that the owner refuses to authorize the collective society to enter into a digital reproduction agreement with respect to…

Section 2 — Definitions

Definitions out classes of uses that it agrees to authorize under this Act, and the royalties and terms and conditions on which it agrees to authorize those…

Section 18 — Copyright in sound recordings

Copyright in sound recordings (2)(a) notwithstanding that it in fact occurred previously elsewhere, if the interval between those two publications does not…

Section 32.01 — Print disability — outside Canada

outside Canada (2), was not available, and could not be located, as described in that subsection. A non-profit organization relying on the exception set out in…

Section 2 — Definitions

Definitions means the rights described in section 3, in the case of a work, sections 15 and 26, in the case of a performer’s performance, section 18, in the…

Section 15 — Copyright in performer’s performance

Copyright in performer’s performance (1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act , or a citizen or permanent resident of a Rome Convention country, or if…

Section 32.01 — Print disability — outside Canada

outside Canada (6). The following definitions apply in this section. Marrakesh Treaty country means a country that is a party to the Marrakesh Treaty to…

Section 42 — Offences

Offences (3)(a) to (e) with respect to any material form of the work, the performer’s performance fixed in a sound recording or the sound recording without the…

Section 30.02 — Exception — digital reproduction of works

the amount of royalties that would be payable under that licence in respect of those acts or, if there is more than one applicable licence, the greatest amount…

Section 27 — Infringement generally

Infringement generally (2)(e), it is irrelevant whether the importer knew or should have known that the importation of the copy infringed copyright. It is an…

Section 38.1 — Statutory damages

Statutory damages (4), the court shall consider all relevant factors, including the good faith or bad faith of the defendant; the conduct of the parties before…

Section 83 — Filing of proposed tariffs

Filing of proposed tariffs (12), require a collective society to file with the Board information relating to payments of moneys received by the society…

Section 2 — Definitions

Definitions means, in relation to a book, a person who has, before or after the coming into force of this definition, been appointed in writing, by the owner…

Section 15 — Copyright in performer’s performance

Copyright in performer’s performance (1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act , in the case of a natural person, or had its headquarters in Canada, in…

Section 2 — Definitions

Definitions (2)(e) and section 27.1 but does not otherwise include a copy made with the consent of the owner of the copyright in the country where the copy was…