A Guide to Copyrights: Table of Contents

A Guide To Copyrights (PDF - 3.1 KB - 25 pages)

Updated: January 2005

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This information is to be considered solely as a guide and should not be quoted as or considered to be a legal authority. It may become obsolete in whole or in part at any time without notice. Authority must be found in the Copyright Act, the Copyright Regulations, and in decisions of the courts interpreting them.

Introduction

• Purpose of this guide
• The Copyright Office
• Visit CIPO's Web site

Copyright Protection

• What is a copyright?
• What is covered by copyright?
• Copyrights vs trade-marks, patents, industrial designs and integrated circuit topographies
• When copyright does not apply
• Infringement
• Fair dealing and exceptions
• Examples of infringement
• Automatic protection for Canadian and foreign works
• Authorship
• Ownership
• Duration
• Moral rights

Registration of copyright

• The benefits
• How to register
• Authorship
• Length of the registration process
• Registration fees
• What the registration covers
• Indicating copyright
• Policing your copyright

Additional information

• Agreements: assignments and licences
• Royalties and tariffs
• Collectives
• Performing rights societies
• Government publications
• For more information

Appendix A — Twenty common questions about copyright

Glossary

Tariff of fees