Canadian Copyright Law

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This text is intended to provide a overview of the core areas in Canadian Copyright law.

[edit] Contents

• Introduction

• Sources of Copyright
  • Copyright Act
  • International Treaties

• Subsistance of Copyright
  • Originality
  • Fixation
  • Exclusion

• Classification
  • Literary
  • Dramatic
  • Musical
  • Artistic
  • Compilations

• Protection of Economic Rights
  • Produce and Reproduce
  • Performance in Public
  • Communication to Public
  • Authorizing

• Exemptions and Defences
  • Fair Dealing
  • Common Carrier

• Moral Rights

[edit] Further Reading

• Copyright Act
• Roger T. Hughes, Hughes on Copyright and Industrial Design (Toronto: Butterworths) [looseleaf].
• Normand Tamaro, Annotated Copyright Act (Toronto: Carswell, [annual]).
• David Vaver, Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trademarks (Concord, Ont: Irwin Law, 1997).

[edit] See also

• Back to Canadian law
• Copyright Ukraine
• Canadian Trade-mark Law
• Canadian Patent Law