A Guide to Copyrights - Appendix II - Glossary (Page 10 of 10)
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A
- Artistic work
- A visual representation such as a painting, drawing, map, photograph, sculpture, engraving, or architectural plan.
- Assignment
- Transfer of copyright from the original owner to another party.
- Author
- The creator of an artistic, literary, musical, or dramatic work.
B
- Berne Convention
- The Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works concluded at Berne on September 9, 1886.
C
- Canadian Intellectual Property Office
- An agency of Industry Canada that administers Canada's intellectual property legislation and regulations regarding patents, trade-marks, copyrights, industrial designs and integrated circuit topographies.
- Certificate of registration
- Official confirmation that your copyright has been registered, which constitutes evidence that copyright subsists and that the person registered is the owner of the copyright.
- Collective
- An organization that administers rights granted by the copyright system on behalf of copyright owners who have joined that collective.
- Copyright Act
- Federal legislation governing copyright in Canada.
- Copyright Board of Canada
- A tribunal that reviews and must approve all tariffs and fees proposed by collectives. The Board can also set royalties when asked to do so by either a collective or a user of a collective's repertoire. The Board also grants licences for use of works when the copyright owner cannot be located.
- Copyright Office
- The federal government office responsible for registering copyrights and grant of interest agreements affecting a copyright in Canada.
- Copyrights
- The exclusive rights in literary, artistic, dramatic or musical works (including computer programs) and three other subject matters known as: performances, sound recordings and communication signals.
- Crown copyright
- Copyright in works prepared for or published by the government, i.e., government publications.
D
- Dramatic work
- Includes plays, screenplays, scripts, films, videos and choreographic works, as well as translations of such works.
I
- Industrial designs
- Visual features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament (or any combination of these) applied to a manufactured article.
- Infringement
- Violation of copyright rights through the unauthorized use of a copyright.
- Integrated circuit topographies
- Three-dimensional configurations of electronic circuits embodied in integrated circuit products or layout designs.
- Intellectual property
- The right to ownership and control over a form of creative endeavour that can be protected through a copyright, patent, trade-mark, industrial design or integrated circuit topography.
L
- Licence
- Legal agreement granting someone permission to use a work for certain purposes or under certain conditions. A licence does not constitute a change in ownership of the copyright.
- Literary work
- Work consisting of text that includes novels, poems, song lyrics without music, catalogues, reports, tables and translations of such works. It may also include computer programs.
M
- Marking
- Indicating copyright with the symbol ©, the name of the copyright owner and the year of first publication.
- Musical work
- Work consisting of music plus lyrics, or music only.
P
- Patents
- New inventions (process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter) or any new and useful improvement to an existing invention.
- Posthumous work
- A work that is published for the first time (or for certain types of works, published, performed or delivered in public for the first time) after the author's death.
- Publication
- Making copies of a work available to the public.
R
- Registration
- The granting of exclusive rights to a copyright by the Commissioner of Patents. This provides protection against imitation and unauthorized use of the copyright.
- Rome Convention
- The International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations adopted on October 26, 1961, in Rome.
- Royalty
- A sum paid to copyright owners for the sale or use of their works or other subject matter.
S
- Sound recording
- The record of a work on a device which reproduces sounds, such as a cassette, record or compact disc.
T
- Tariff
- A standard charge for use of copyrighted works. For example, fees paid by users of musical works and cable companies for the rebroadcast of programs.
- Trade-marks
- Words, symbols or designs (or any combination of these) used to distinguish the wares or services of one person or organization from those of others in the marketplace.
U
- Universal Copyright Convention
- An international convention protecting copyright, adopted on September 6, 1952, in Geneva, Switzerland and revised in Paris, France on July 24, 1971.
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