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PreviousA Guide to Copyright — Appendix I
Glossary
A
- Artistic work
- A visual representation such as a painting, drawing, map, photograph, sculpture, plan, etc.
- Assignment
- Transfer of copyright from a copyright owner to another party.
- Author
- The creator of an artistic, literary, musical, or dramatic work.
B
- Berne Convention
- Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works concluded at Berne, Switzerland on September 9, 1886.
- Consult the list of contracting parties.
C
- Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
- A special operating agency of Industry Canada that is responsible for administering Canada's system of intellectual property rights: copyright, patents, trade- marks, industrial designs and integrated circuit topographies.
- Certificate of registration
- Official confirmation that a copyright has been registered, which constitutes evidence that copyright subsists and that the person registered is the owner of the copyright.
- Collective society
- An organization that carries on the business of collective administration of copyright on behalf of its members.
- Copyright
- In general, the sole right to produce or reproduce a work or a substantial part of it in any form. It includes the right to perform the work or any substantial part of it or, in the case of a lecture, to deliver it. If the work is unpublished, it includes the right to publish it or any substantial part of it.
- Copyright Act
- Federal legislation governing copyright in Canada.
- Copyright Board of Canada
- A regulatory body for the establishment of royalties for the use of works protected by copyright when the administration of such copyright has been entrusted to a collective-administration society. It may also supervise agreements or licences between users and licensing bodies and issue licenses where a copyright owner cannot be located.
- Copyright Office
- The federal government office responsible for registering copyrights, and assignments and licences affecting a copyright.
- Crown copyright
- Copyright in works prepared for or published by the government, i.e., government publications.
D
- Dramatic work
- Includes plays, screenplays, scripts and motion picture films.
I
- Industrial designs
- Visual features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament, or any combination of these features, applied to a finished article.
- Infringement
- Violation of copyright through the unauthorized use of a work.
- Integrated circuit topographies
- Three-dimensional configurations of electronic circuits embodied in integrated circuit products or layout designs.
- Intellectual property
- 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
- Works consisting of text, e.g. books, pamphlets, computer programs, etc.
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 has not been published, performed in public or communicated to the public by telecommunication during the author's lifetime.
- Publication
- Generally, making copies of a work available to the public.
R
- Registration
- The registration of a copyright, assignment or licence.
- Rome Convention
- Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations adopted on October 26, 1961, in Rome, Italy.
- Consult the list of contracting parties.
- Royalty
- A sum paid to copyright owners for the sale or use of their works or other subject-matter.
S
- Sound recording
- A recording consisting of sounds, whether or not a performance of a work, but excludes any soundtrack of a cinematographic work where it accompanies the cinematographic work.
T
- Tariff
- A standard charge for the use of works protected by copyright.
- Trade-marks
- Words, designs, or any combination, used to distinguish the goods 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.
- Consult the list of contracting parties.
W
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
- Deals with the global rules of trade between nations.
- Consult the list of members.
