Short Title

Marginal note:Short title

1 This Act may be cited as the Copyright Act.

Interpretation

Marginal note:Definitions

2 In this Act,

architectural work

oeuvre architecturale

architectural work means any building or structure or any model of a building or structure; (oeuvre architecturale)

architectural work of art

architectural work of art[Repealed, 1993, c. 44, s. 53]

artistic work

oeuvre artistique

artistic work includes paintings, drawings, maps, charts, plans, photographs, engravings, sculptures, works of artistic craftsmanship, architectural works, and compilations of artistic works; (oeuvre artistique)

Berne Convention country

pays partie à la Convention de Berne

Berne Convention country means a country that is a party to the Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works concluded at Berne on September 9, 1886, or any one of its revisions, including the Paris Act of 1971; (pays partie à la Convention de Berne)

Board

Commission

Board means the Copyright Board established by subsection 66(1); (Commission)

book

livre

book means a volume or a part or division of a volume, in printed form, but does not include

• (a) a pamphlet,

• (b) a newspaper, review, magazine or other periodical,

• (c) a map, chart, plan or sheet music where the map, chart, plan or sheet music is separately published, and

• (d) an instruction or repair manual that accompanies a product or that is supplied as an accessory to a service; (livre)

broadcaster

radiodiffuseur

broadcaster means a body that, in the course of operating a broadcasting undertaking, broadcasts a communication signal in accordance with the law of the country in which the broadcasting undertaking is carried on, but excludes a body whose primary activity in relation to communication signals is their retransmission; (radiodiffuseur)

choreographic work

oeuvre chorégraphique

choreographic work includes any work of choreography, whether or not it has any story line; (oeuvre chorégraphique)

cinematograph

cinematograph[Repealed, 1997, c. 24, s. 1]

cinematographic work

oeuvre cinématographique

cinematographic work includes any work expressed by any process analogous to cinematography, whether or not accompanied by a soundtrack; (oeuvre cinématographique)

collective society

société de gestion

collective society means a society, association or corporation that carries on the business of collective administration of copyright or of the remuneration right conferred by section 19 or 81 for the benefit of those who, by assignment, grant of licence, appointment of it as their agent or otherwise, authorize it to act on their behalf in relation to that collective administration, and

• (a) operates a licensing scheme, applicable in relation to a repertoire of works, performer’s performances, sound recordings or communication signals of more than one author, performer, sound recording maker or broadcaster, pursuant to which the society, association or corporation sets 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 classes of uses, or

• (b) carries on the business of collecting and distributing royalties or levies payable pursuant to this Act; (société de gestion)

collective work

recueil

collective work means

• (a) an encyclopaedia, dictionary, year book or similar work,

• (b) a newspaper, review, magazine or similar periodical, and

• (c) any work written in distinct parts by different authors, or in which works or parts of works of different authors are incorporated; (recueil)

commercially available

accessible sur le marché

commercially available means, in relation to a work or other subject-matter,

• (a) available on the Canadian market within a reasonable time and for a reasonable price and may be located with reasonable effort, or

• (b) for which a licence to reproduce, perform in public or communicate to the public by telecommunication is available from a collective society within a reasonable time and for a reasonable price and may be located with reasonable effort; (accessible sur le marché)

communication signal

signal de communication

communication signal means radio waves transmitted through space without any artificial guide, for reception by the public; (signal de communication)

compilation

compilation

compilation means

• (a) a work resulting from the selection or arrangement of literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works or of parts thereof, or

• (b) a work resulting from the selection or arrangement of data; (compilation)

computer program

programme d’ordinateur

computer program means a set of instructions or statements, expressed, fixed, embodied or stored in any manner, that is to be used directly or indirectly in a computer in order to bring about a specific result; (programme d’ordinateur)

copyright

droit d’auteur

copyright means the rights described in

• (a) section 3, in the case of a work,

• (b) sections 15 and 26, in the case of a performer’s performance,

• (c) section 18, in the case of a sound recording, or

• (d) section 21, in the case of a communication signal; (droit d’auteur)

country

pays

country includes any territory; (pays)

defendant

Version anglaise seulement

defendant includes a respondent to an application; (Version anglaise seulement)

delivery

delivery[Repealed, 1997, c. 24, s. 1]

dramatic work

oeuvre dramatique

dramatic work includes

• (a) any piece for recitation, choreographic work or mime, the scenic arrangement or acting form of which is fixed in writing or otherwise,

• (b) any cinematographic work, and

• (c) any compilation of dramatic works; (oeuvre dramatique)

educational institution

établissement d’enseignement

educational institution means

• (a) a non-profit institution licensed or recognized by or under an Act of Parliament or the legislature of a province to provide pre-school, elementary, secondary or post-secondary education,

• (b) a non-profit institution that is directed or controlled by a board of education regulated by or under an Act of the legislature of a province and that provides continuing, professional or vocational education or training,

• (c) a department or agency of any order of government, or any non-profit body, that controls or supervises education or training referred to in paragraph (a) or (b), or

• (d) any other non-profit institution prescribed by regulation; (établissement d’enseignement)

engravings

gravure

engravings includes etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, prints and other similar works, not being photographs; (gravure)

every original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic work

toute oeuvre littéraire, dramatique, musicale ou artistique originale

every original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic work includes every original production in the literary, scientific or artistic domain, whatever may be the mode or form of its expression, such as compilations, books, pamphlets and other writings, lectures, dramatic or dramatico-musical works, musical works, translations, illustrations, sketches and plastic works relative to geography, topography, architecture or science; (toute oeuvre littéraire, dramatique, musicale ou artistique originale)

exclusive distributor

distributeur exclusif

exclusive distributor means, in relation to a book, a person who

• (a) has, before or after the coming into force of this definition, been appointed in writing, by the owner or exclusive licensee of the copyright in the book in Canada, as

  • (i) the only distributor of the book in Canada or any part of Canada, or

  • (ii) the only distributor of the book in Canada or any part of Canada in respect of a particular sector of the market, and

• (b) meets the criteria established by regulations made under section 2.6,

and, for greater certainty, if there are no regulations made under section 2.6, then no person qualifies under this definition as an “exclusive distributor”; (distributeur exclusif)

Her Majesty’s Realms and Territories

Her Majesty’s Realms and Territories[Repealed, 1997, c. 24, s. 1]

infringing

contrefaçon

infringing means

• (a) in relation to a work in which copyright subsists, any copy, including any colourable imitation, made or dealt with in contravention of this Act,

• (b) in relation to a performer’s performance in respect of which copyright subsists, any fixation or copy of a fixation of it made or dealt with in contravention of this Act,

• (c) in relation to a sound recording in respect of which copyright subsists, any copy of it made or dealt with in contravention of this Act, or

• (d) in relation to a communication signal in respect of which copyright subsists, any fixation or copy of a fixation of it made or dealt with in contravention of this Act.

The definition includes a copy that is imported in the circumstances set out in paragraph 27(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 made; (contrefaçon)

lecture

conférence

lecture includes address, speech and sermon; (conférence)

legal representatives

représentants légaux

legal representatives includes heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, or agents or attorneys who are thereunto duly authorized in writing; (représentants légaux)

library, archive or museum

bibliothèque, musée ou service d’archives

library, archive or museum means

• (a) an institution, whether or not incorporated, that is not established or conducted for profit or that does not form a part of, or is not administered or directly or indirectly controlled by, a body that is established or conducted for profit, in which is held and maintained a collection of documents and other materials that is open to the public or to researchers, or

• (b) any other non-profit institution prescribed by regulation; (bibliothèque, musée ou service d’archives)

literary work

oeuvre littéraire

literary work includes tables, computer programs, and compilations of literary works; (oeuvre littéraire)

maker

producteur

maker means

• (a) in relation to a cinematographic work, the person by whom the arrangements necessary for the making of the work are undertaken, or

• (b) in relation to a sound recording, the person by whom the arrangements necessary for the first fixation of the sounds are undertaken; (producteur)

Minister

ministre

Minister, except in section 44.1, means the Minister of Industry; (ministre)

moral rights

droits moraux

moral rights means the rights described in subsection 14.1(1); (droits moraux)

musical work

oeuvre musicale

musical work means any work of music or musical composition, with or without words, and includes any compilation thereof; (oeuvre musicale)

perceptual disability

déficience perceptuelle

perceptual disability means a disability that prevents or inhibits a person from reading or hearing a literary, musical, dramatic or artistic work in its original format, and includes such a disability resulting from

• (a) severe or total impairment of sight or hearing or the inability to focus or move one’s eyes,

• (b) the inability to hold or manipulate a book, or

• (c) an impairment relating to comprehension; (déficience perceptuelle)

performance

représentation ou exécution

performance means any acoustic or visual representation of a work, performer’s performance, sound recording or communication signal, including a representation made by means of any mechanical instrument, radio receiving set or television receiving set; (représentation ou exécution)

performer’s performance

prestation

performer’s performance means any of the following when done by a performer:

• (a) a performance of an artistic work, dramatic work or musical work, whether or not the work was previously fixed in any material form, and whether or not the work’s term of copyright protection under this Act has expired,

• (b) a recitation or reading of a literary work, whether or not the work’s term of copyright protection under this Act has expired, or

• (c) an improvisation of a dramatic work, musical work or literary work, whether or not the improvised work is based on a pre-existing work; (prestation)

photograph

photographie

photograph includes photo-lithograph and any work expressed by any process analogous to photography; (photographie)

plaintiff

Version anglaise seulement

plaintiff includes an applicant; (Version anglaise seulement)

plate

planche

plate includes

• (a) any stereotype or other plate, stone, block, mould, matrix, transfer or negative used or intended to be used for printing or reproducing copies of any work, and

• (b) any matrix or other appliance used or intended to be used for making or reproducing sound recordings, performer’s performances or communication signals; (planche)

premises

locaux

premises means, in relation to an educational institution, a place where education or training referred to in the definition “educational institution” is provided, controlled or supervised by the educational institution; (locaux)

receiving device

receiving device[Repealed, 1993, c. 44, s. 79]

Rome Convention country

pays partie à la Convention de Rome

Rome Convention country means a country that is a party to the International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations, done at Rome on October 26, 1961; (pays partie à la Convention de Rome)

sculpture

sculpture

sculpture includes a cast or model; (sculpture)

sound recording

enregistrement sonore

sound recording means a recording, fixed in any material form, consisting of sounds, whether or not of a performance of a work, but excludes any soundtrack of a cinematographic work where it accompanies the cinematographic work; (enregistrement sonore)

telecommunication

télécommunication

telecommunication means any transmission of signs, signals, writing, images or sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, visual, optical or other electromagnetic system; (télécommunication)

treaty country

pays signataire

treaty country means a Berne Convention country, UCC country or WTO Member; (pays signataire)

UCC country

pays partie à la Convention universelle

UCC country means a country that is a party to the Universal Copyright Convention, adopted on September 6, 1952 in Geneva, Switzerland, or to that Convention as revised in Paris, France on July 24, 1971; (pays partie à la Convention universelle)

work

oeuvre

work includes the title thereof when such title is original and distinctive; (oeuvre)

work of joint authorship

oeuvre créée en collaboration

work of joint authorship means a work produced by the collaboration of two or more authors in which the contribution of one author is not distinct from the contribution of the other author or authors; (oeuvre créée en collaboration)

work of sculpture

work of sculpture[Repealed, 1997, c. 24, s. 1]

WTO Member

membre de l’OMC

WTO Member means a Member of the World Trade Organization as defined in subsection 2(1) of the World Trade Organization Agreement Implementation Act. (membre de l’OMC)

Marginal note:Compilations

• 2.1 (1) 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 category making up the most substantial part of the compilation.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (2) The mere fact that a work is included in a compilation does not increase, decrease or otherwise affect the protection conferred by this Act in respect of the copyright in the work or the moral rights in respect of the work.

Marginal note:Definition of maker

2.11 For greater certainty, the arrangements referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition maker in section 2, as that term is used in section 19 and in the definition eligible maker in section 79, include arrangements for entering into contracts with performers, financial arrangements and technical arrangements required for the first fixation of the sounds for a sound recording.

Marginal note:Definition of publication

• 2.2 (1) For the purposes of this Act, publication means

  • (a) in relation to works,

    • (i) making copies of a work available to the public,

    • (ii) the construction of an architectural work, and

    • (iii) the incorporation of an artistic work into an architectural work, and

  • (b) in relation to sound recordings, making copies of a sound recording available to the public,

  but does not include

  • (c) the performance in public, or the communication to the public by telecommunication, of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or a sound recording, or

  • (d) the exhibition in public of an artistic work.

• Marginal note:Issue of photographs and engravings

  (2) For the purpose of subsection (1), the issue of photographs and engravings of sculptures and architectural works is not deemed to be publication of those works.

• Marginal note:Where no consent of copyright owner

  (3) For the purposes of this Act, other than in respect of infringement of copyright, a work or other subject-matter is not deemed to be published or performed in public or communicated to the public by telecommunication if that act is done without the consent of the owner of the copyright.

• Marginal note:Unpublished works

  (4) Where, in the case of an unpublished work, the making of the work is extended over a considerable period, the conditions of this Act conferring copyright are deemed to have been complied with if the author was, during any substantial part of that period, a subject or citizen of, or a person ordinarily resident in, a country to which this Act extends.

Marginal note:Telecommunication

2.3 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, nor by that act alone is deemed to authorize its performance in public.

Marginal note:Communication to the public by telecommunication

• 2.4 (1) For the purposes of communication to the public by telecommunication,

  • (a) persons who occupy apartments, hotel rooms or dwelling units situated in the same building are part of the public, and a communication intended to be received exclusively by such persons is a communication to the public;

  • (b) a person whose only act in respect of the communication of a work or other subject-matter to the public consists of providing the means of telecommunication necessary for another person to so communicate the work or other subject-matter does not communicate that work or other subject-matter to the public; and

  • (c) where a person, as part of

    • (i) a network, within the meaning of the Broadcasting Act, whose operations result in the communication of works or other subject-matter to the public, or

    • (ii) any programming undertaking whose operations result in the communication of works or other subject-matter to the public,

    transmits by telecommunication a work or other subject-matter that is communicated to the public by another person who is not a retransmitter of a signal within the meaning of subsection 31(1), the transmission and communication of that work or other subject-matter by those persons constitute a single communication to the public for which those persons are jointly and severally liable.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (2) The Governor in Council may make regulations defining “programming undertaking” for the purpose of paragraph (1)(c).

• Marginal note:Exception

  (3) A work is not communicated in the manner described in paragraph (1)(c) or 3(1)(f) where a signal carrying the work is retransmitted to a person who is a retransmitter within the meaning of subsection 31(1).

Marginal note:What constitutes rental

• 2.5 (1) 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 computer program or sound recording if, and only if,

  • (a) it is in substance a rental, having regard to all the circumstances; and

  • (b) it is entered into with motive of gain in relation to the overall operations of the person who rents out the computer program or sound recording, as the case may be.

• Marginal note:Motive of gain

  (2) For the purpose of paragraph (1)(b), a person who rents out a computer program or sound recording with the intention of recovering no more than the costs, including overhead, associated with the rental operations does not by that act alone have a motive of gain in relation to the rental operations.

Marginal note:Exclusive distributor

2.6 The Governor in Council may make regulations establishing distribution criteria for the purpose of paragraph (b) of the definition exclusive distributor in section 2.

Marginal note:Exclusive licence

2.7 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 others including the copyright owner, whether the authorization is granted by the owner or an exclusive licensee claiming under the owner.

PART ICopyright and Moral Rights in Works

Copyright

Marginal note:Copyright in works

• 3 (1) 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 part thereof in any material form whatever, to perform the work or any substantial part thereof in public or, if the work is unpublished, to publish the work or any substantial part thereof, and includes the sole right

  • (a) to produce, reproduce, perform or publish any translation of the work,

  • (b) in the case of a dramatic work, to convert it into a novel or other non-dramatic work,

  • (c) in the case of a novel or other non-dramatic work, or of an artistic work, to convert it into a dramatic work, by way of performance in public or otherwise,

  • (d) in the case of a literary, dramatic or musical work, to make any sound recording, cinematograph film or other contrivance by means of which the work may be mechanically reproduced or performed,

  • (e) in the case of any literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work, to reproduce, adapt and publicly present the work as a cinematographic work,

  • (f) in the case of any literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work, to communicate the work to the public by telecommunication,

  • (g) to present at a public exhibition, for a purpose other than sale or hire, an artistic work created after June 7, 1988, other than a map, chart or plan,

  • (h) in the case of a computer program that can be reproduced in the ordinary course of its use, other than by a reproduction during its execution in conjunction with a machine, device or computer, to rent out the computer program, and

  • (i) in the case of a musical work, to rent out a sound recording in which the work is embodied,

  and to authorize any such acts.

• Marginal note:Simultaneous fixing

  (1.1) A work that is communicated in the manner described in paragraph (1)(f) is fixed even if it is fixed simultaneously with its communication.

• (1.2) to (4) [Repealed, 1997, c. 24, s. 3]

4 [Repealed, 1997, c. 24, s. 4]

Works in which Copyright may Subsist

Marginal note:Conditions for subsistence of copyright

• 5 (1) Subject to this Act, copyright shall subsist in Canada, for the term hereinafter mentioned, in every original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic work if any one of the following conditions is met:

  • (a) in the case of any work, whether published or unpublished, including a cinematographic work, the author was, at the date of the making of the work, a citizen or subject of, or a person ordinarily resident in, a treaty country;

  • (b) in the case of a cinematographic work, whether published or unpublished, the maker, at the date of the making of the cinematographic work,

    • (i) if a corporation, had its headquarters in a treaty country, or

    • (ii) if a natural person, was a citizen or subject of, or a person ordinarily resident in, a treaty country; or

  • (c) in the case of a published work, including a cinematographic work,

    • (i) in relation to subparagraph 2.2(1)(a)(i), the first publication in such a quantity as to satisfy the reasonable demands of the public, having regard to the nature of the work, occurred in a treaty country, or

    • (ii) in relation to subparagraph 2.2(1)(a)(ii) or (iii), the first publication occurred in a treaty country.

• Marginal note:Protection for older works

  (1.01) For the purposes of subsection (1), a country that becomes a Berne Convention country or a WTO Member after the date of the making or publication of a work shall, as of becoming a Berne Convention country or WTO Member, as the case may be, be deemed to have been a Berne Convention country or WTO Member at the date of the making or publication of the work, subject to subsection (1.02) and section 33.

• Marginal note:Limitation

  (1.02) Subsection (1.01) does not confer copyright protection in Canada on a work whose term of copyright protection in the country referred to in that subsection had expired before that country became a Berne Convention country or WTO Member, as the case may be.

• Marginal note:Application of subsections (1.01) and (1.02)

  (1.03) Subsections (1.01) and (1.02) apply, and are deemed to have applied, regardless of whether the country in question became a Berne Convention country or a WTO Member before or after the coming into force of those subsections.

• Marginal note:First publication

  (1.1) The first publication described in subparagraph (1)(c)(i) or (ii) is deemed to have occurred in a treaty country notwithstanding that it in fact occurred previously elsewhere, if the interval between those two publications did not exceed thirty days.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (1.2) Copyright shall not subsist in Canada otherwise than as provided by subsection (1), except in so far as the protection conferred by this Act is extended as hereinafter provided to foreign countries to which this Act does not extend.

• Marginal note:Minister may extend copyright to other countries

  (2) Where the Minister certifies by notice, published in the Canada Gazette, that any country that is not a treaty country grants or has undertaken to grant, either by treaty, convention, agreement or law, to citizens of Canada, the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to its own citizens or copyright protection substantially equal to that conferred by this Act, the country shall, for the purpose of the rights conferred by this Act, be treated as if it were a country to which this Act extends, and the Minister may give a certificate, notwithstanding that the remedies for enforcing the rights, or the restrictions on the importation of copies of works, under the law of such country, differ from those in this Act.

• (2.1) [Repealed, 1994, c. 47, s. 57]

• (3) to (6) [Repealed, 1997, c. 24, s. 5]

• Marginal note:Reciprocity protection preserved

  (7) For greater certainty, the protection to which a work is entitled by virtue of a notice published under subsection (2), or under that subsection as it read at any time before the coming into force of this subsection, is not affected by reason only of the country in question becoming a treaty country.

Term of Copyright

Marginal note:Term of copyright

6 The term for which copyright shall subsist shall, except as otherwise expressly provided by this Act, be the life of the author, the remainder of the calendar year in which the author dies, and a period of fifty years following the end of that calendar year.

Marginal note:Anonymous and pseudonymous works

6.1 Except as provided in section 6.2, where the identity of the author of a work is unknown, copyright in the work shall subsist for whichever of the following terms ends earlier:

• (a) a term consisting of the remainder of the calendar year of the first publication of the work and a period of fifty years following the end of that calendar year, and

• (b) a term consisting of the remainder of the calendar year of the making of the work and a period of seventy-five years following the end of that calendar year,

but where, during that term, the author’s identity becomes commonly known, the term provided in section 6 applies.

Marginal note:Anonymous and pseudonymous works of joint authorship

6.2 Where the identity of all the authors of a work of joint authorship is unknown, copyright in the work shall subsist for whichever of the following terms ends earlier:

• (a) a term consisting of the remainder of the calendar year of the first publication of the work and a period of fifty years following the end of that calendar year, and

• (b) a term consisting of the remainder of the calendar year of the making of the work and a period of seventy-five years following the end of that calendar year,

but where, during that term, the identity of one or more of the authors becomes commonly known, copyright shall subsist for the life of whichever of those authors dies last, the remainder of the calendar year in which that author dies, and a period of fifty years following the end of that calendar year.

Marginal note:Term of copyright in posthumous works

• 7 (1) Subject to subsection (2), in the case of a literary, dramatic or musical work, or an engraving, in which copyright subsists at the date of the death of the author 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 or, in the case of a lecture or a dramatic or musical work, been performed in public or communicated to the public by telecommunication, before that date, copyright shall subsist until publication, or performance in public or communication to the public by telecommunication, whichever may first happen, for the remainder of the calendar year of the publication or of the performance in public or communication to the public by telecommunication, as the case may be, and for a period of fifty years following the end of that calendar year.

• Marginal note:Application of subsection (1)

  (2) Subsection (1) applies only where the work in question was published or performed in public or communicated to the public by telecommunication, as the case may be, before the coming into force of this section.

• Marginal note:Transitional provision

  (3) Where

  • (a) a work has not, at the coming into force of this section, been published or performed in public or communicated to the public by telecommunication,

  • (b) subsection (1) would apply to that work if it had been published or performed in public or communicated to the public by telecommunication before the coming into force of this section, and

  • (c) the relevant death referred to in subsection (1) occurred during the period of fifty years immediately before the coming into force of this section,

  copyright shall subsist in the work for the remainder of the calendar year in which this section comes into force and for a period of fifty years following the end of that calendar year, whether or not the work is published or performed in public or communicated to the public by telecommunication after the coming into force of this section.

• Marginal note:Transitional provision

  (4) Where

  • (a) a work has not, at the coming into force of this section, been published or performed in public or communicated to the public by telecommunication,

  • (b) subsection (1) would apply to that work if it had been published or performed in public or communicated to the public by telecommunication before the coming into force of this section, and

  • (c) the relevant death referred to in subsection (1) occurred more than fifty years before the coming into force of this section,

  copyright shall subsist in the work for the remainder of the calendar year in which this section comes into force and for a period of five years following the end of that calendar year, whether or not the work is published or performed in public or communicated to the public by telecommunication after the coming into force of this section.

8 [Repealed, 1993, c. 44, s. 59]

Marginal note:Cases of joint authorship

• 9 (1) In the case of a work of joint authorship, except as provided in section 6.2, copyright shall subsist during the life of the author who dies last, for the remainder of the calendar year of that author’s death, and for a period of fifty years following the end of that calendar year, and references in this Act to the period after the expiration of any specified number of years from the end of the calendar year of the death of the author shall be construed as references to the period after the expiration of the like number of years from the end of the calendar year of the death of the author who dies last.

• Marginal note:Nationals of other countries

  (2) Authors who are nationals of any country, other than a country that is a party to the North American Free Trade Agreement, that grants a term of protection shorter than that mentioned in subsection (1) are not entitled to claim a longer term of protection in Canada.

Marginal note:Term of copyright in photographs

• 10 (1) Where the owner referred to in subsection (2) is a corporation, the term for which copyright subsists in a photograph shall be the remainder of the year of the making of the initial negative or plate from which the photograph was derived or, if there is no negative or plate, of the initial photograph, plus a period of fifty years.

• Marginal note:Where author majority shareholder

  (1.1) Where the owner is a corporation, the majority of the voting shares of which are owned by a natural person who would have qualified as the author of the photograph except for subsection (2), the term of copyright is the term set out in section 6.

• Marginal note:Author of photograph

  (2) The person who

  • (a) was the owner of the initial negative or other plate at the time when that negative or other plate was made, or

  • (b) was the owner of the initial photograph at the time when that photograph was made, where there was no negative or other plate,

  is deemed to be the author of the photograph and, where that owner is a body corporate, the body corporate is deemed for the purposes of this Act to be ordinarily resident in a treaty country if it has established a place of business therein.

11 [Repealed, 1997, c. 24, s. 8]

Marginal note:Cinematographic works

11.1 Except for cinematographic works in which the arrangement or acting form or the combination of incidents represented give the work a dramatic character, copyright in a cinematographic work or a compilation of cinematographic works shall subsist

• (a) for the remainder of the calendar year of the first publication of the cinematographic work or of the compilation, and for a period of fifty years following the end of that calendar year; or

• (b) if the cinematographic work or compilation is not published before the expiration of fifty years following the end of the calendar year of its making, for the remainder of that calendar year and for a period of fifty years following the end of that calendar year.

Marginal note:Where copyright belongs to Her Majesty

12 Without prejudice to any rights or privileges of the Crown, where any work is, or has been, prepared or published by or under the direction or control of Her Majesty or any government department, the copyright in the work shall, subject to any agreement with the author, belong to Her Majesty and in that case shall continue for the remainder of the calendar year of the first publication of the work and for a period of fifty years following the end of that calendar year.

Ownership of Copyright

Marginal note:Ownership of copyright

• 13 (1) Subject to this Act, the author of a work shall be the first owner of the copyright therein.

• Marginal note:Engraving, photograph or portrait

  (2) Where, in the case of an engraving, photograph or portrait, the plate or other original was ordered by some other person and was made for valuable consideration, and the consideration was paid, in pursuance of that order, in the absence of any agreement to the contrary, the person by whom the plate or other original was ordered shall be the first owner of the copyright.

• Marginal note:Work made in the course of employment

  (3) Where the author of a work was in the employment of some other person under a contract of service or apprenticeship and the work was made in the course of his employment by that person, the person by whom the author was employed shall, in the absence of any agreement to the contrary, be the first owner of the copyright, but where the work is an article or other contribution to a newspaper, magazine or similar periodical, there shall, in the absence of any agreement to the contrary, be deemed to be reserved to the author a right to restrain the publication of the work, otherwise than as part of a newspaper, magazine or similar periodical.

• Marginal note:Assignments and licences

  (4) The owner of the copyright in any work may assign the right, either wholly or partially, and either generally or subject to limitations relating to territory, medium or sector of the market or other limitations relating to the scope of the assignment, and either for the whole term of the copyright or for any other part thereof, and may grant any interest in the right by licence, but no assignment or grant is valid unless it is in writing signed by the owner of the right in respect of which the assignment or grant is made, or by the owner’s duly authorized agent.

• Marginal note:Ownership in case of partial assignment

  (5) Where, under any partial assignment of copyright, the assignee becomes entitled to any right comprised in copyright, the assignee, with respect to the rights so assigned, and the assignor, with respect to the rights not assigned, shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as the owner of the copyright, and this Act has effect accordingly.

• Marginal note:Assignment of right of action

  (6) For greater certainty, it is deemed always to have been the law that a right of action for infringement of copyright may be assigned in association with the assignment of the copyright or the grant of an interest in the copyright by licence.

• Marginal note:Exclusive licence

  (7) For greater certainty, it is deemed always to have been the law that a grant of an exclusive licence in a copyright constitutes the grant of an interest in the copyright by licence.

Marginal note:Limitation where author is first owner of copyright

• 14 (1) Where the author of a work is the first owner of the copyright therein, no assignment of the copyright and no grant of any interest therein, made by him, otherwise than by will, after June 4, 1921, is operative to vest in the assignee or grantee any rights with respect to the copyright in the work beyond the expiration of twenty-five years from the death of the author, and the reversionary interest in the copyright expectant on the termination of that period shall, on the death of the author, notwithstanding any agreement to the contrary, devolve on his legal representatives as part of the estate of the author, and any agreement entered into by the author as to the disposition of such reversionary interest is void.

• Marginal note:Restriction

  (2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall be construed as applying to the assignment of the copyright in a collective work or a licence to publish a work or part of a work as part of a collective work.

• (3) [Repealed, 1997, c. 24, s. 11]

• (4) [Repealed, R.S., 1985, c. 10 (4th Supp.), s. 3]

14.01 [Repealed, 1997, c. 24, s. 12]

Moral Rights

Marginal note:Moral rights

• 14.1 (1) 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, the right, where reasonable in the circumstances, to be associated with the work as its author by name or under a pseudonym and the right to remain anonymous.

• Marginal note:No assignment of moral rights

  (2) Moral rights may not be assigned but may be waived in whole or in part.

• Marginal note:No waiver by assignment

  (3) An assignment of copyright in a work does not by that act alone constitute a waiver of any moral rights.

• Marginal note:Effect of waiver

  (4) Where a waiver of any moral right is made in favour of an owner or a licensee of copyright, it may be invoked by any person authorized by the owner or licensee to use the work, unless there is an indication to the contrary in the waiver.

Marginal note:Term

• 14.2 (1) Moral rights in respect of a work subsist for the same term as the copyright in the work.

• Marginal note:Succession

  (2) The moral rights in respect of a work pass, on the death of its author, to

  • (a) the person to whom those rights are specifically bequeathed;

  • (b) where there is no specific bequest of those moral rights and the author dies testate in respect of the copyright in the work, the person to whom that copyright is bequeathed; or

  • (c) where there is no person described in paragraph (a) or (b), the person entitled to any other property in respect of which the author dies intestate.

• Marginal note:Subsequent succession

  (3) Subsection (2) applies, with such modifications as the circumstances require, on the death of any person who holds moral rights.

PART IICopyright in Performer’s Performances, Sound Recordings and Communication Signals

Performers’ Rights

Marginal note:Copyright in performer’s performance

• 15 (1) Subject to subsection (2), a performer has a copyright in the performer’s performance, consisting of the sole right to do the following in relation to the performer’s performance or any substantial part thereof:

  • (a) if it is not fixed,

    • (i) to communicate it to the public by telecommunication,

    • (ii) to perform it in public, where it is communicated to the public by telecommunication otherwise than by communication signal, and

    • (iii) to fix it in any material form,

  • (b) if it is fixed,

    • (i) to reproduce any fixation that was made without the performer’s authorization,

    • (ii) where the performer authorized a fixation, to reproduce any reproduction of that fixation, if the reproduction being reproduced was made for a purpose other than that for which the performer’s authorization was given, and

    • (iii) where a fixation was permitted under Part III or VIII, to reproduce any reproduction of that fixation, if the reproduction being reproduced was made for a purpose other than one permitted under Part III or VIII, and

  • (c) to rent out a sound recording of it,

  and to authorize any such acts.

• Marginal note:Conditions

  (2) Subsection (1) applies only if the performer’s performance

  • (a) takes place in Canada or in a Rome Convention country;

  • (b) is fixed in

    • (i) a sound recording whose maker, at the time of the first fixation,

      • (A) if a natural person, was a Canadian citizen or permanent resident within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, or a citizen or permanent resident of a Rome Convention country, or

      • (B) if a corporation, had its headquarters in Canada or in a Rome Convention country, or

    • (ii) a sound recording whose first publication in such a quantity as to satisfy the reasonable demands of the public occurred in Canada or in a Rome Convention country; or

  • (c) is transmitted at the time of the performer’s performance by a communication signal broadcast from Canada or a Rome Convention country by a broadcaster that has its headquarters in the country of broadcast.

• Marginal note:Publication

  (3) The first publication is deemed to have occurred in a country referred to in paragraph (2)(b) notwithstanding that it in fact occurred previously elsewhere, if the interval between those two publications does not exceed thirty days.

Marginal note:Contractual arrangements

16 Nothing in section 15 prevents the performer from entering into a contract governing the use of the performer’s performance for the purpose of broadcasting, fixation or retransmission.

Marginal note:Cinematographic works

• 17 (1) Where the performer authorizes the embodiment of the performer’s performance in a cinematographic work, the performer may no longer exercise, in relation to the performance where embodied in that cinematographic work, the copyright referred to in subsection 15(1).

• Marginal note:Right to remuneration

  (2) Where there is an agreement governing the embodiment referred to in subsection (1) and that agreement provides for a right to remuneration for the reproduction, performance in public or communication to the public by telecommunication of the cinematographic work, the performer may enforce that right against

  • (a) the other party to the agreement or, if that party assigns the agreement, the assignee, and

  • (b) any other person who

    • (i) owns the copyright in the cinematographic work governing the reproduction of the cinematographic work, its performance in public or its communication to the public by telecommunication, and

    • (ii) reproduces the cinematographic work, performs it in public or communicates it to the public by telecommunication,

  and persons referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) are jointly and severally liable to the performer in respect of the remuneration relating to that copyright.

• Marginal note:Application of subsection (2)

  (3) Subsection (2) applies only if the performer’s performance is embodied in a prescribed cinematographic work.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (4) If so requested by a country that is a party to the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Minister may, by a statement published in the Canada Gazette, grant the benefits conferred by this section, subject to any terms and conditions specified in the statement, to performers who are nationals of that country or another country that is a party to the Agreement or are Canadian citizens or permanent residents within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and whose performer’s performances are embodied in works other than the prescribed cinematographic works referred to in subsection (3).

Rights of Sound Recording Makers

Marginal note:Copyright in sound recordings

• 18 (1) Subject to subsection (2), the maker of a sound recording has a copyright in the sound recording, consisting of the sole right to do the following in relation to the sound recording or any substantial part thereof:

  • (a) to publish it for the first time,

  • (b) to reproduce it in any material form, and

  • (c) to rent it out,

  and to authorize any such acts.

• Marginal note:Conditions for copyright

  (2) Subsection (1) applies only if

  • (a) the maker of the sound recording was a Canadian citizen or permanent resident within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, or a citizen or permanent resident of a Berne Convention country, a Rome Convention country or a country that is a WTO Member, or, if a corporation, had its headquarters in one of the foregoing countries,

    • (i) at the date of the first fixation, or

    • (ii) if that first fixation was extended over a considerable period, during any substantial part of that period; or

  • (b) the first publication of the sound recording in such a quantity as to satisfy the reasonable demands of the public occurred in any country referred to in paragraph (a).

• Marginal note:Publication

  (3) The first publication is deemed to have occurred in a country referred to in paragraph (2)(a) notwithstanding that it in fact occurred previously elsewhere, if the interval between those two publications does not exceed thirty days.

Provisions Applicable to both Performers and Sound Recording Makers

Marginal note:Right to remuneration

• 19 (1) Where a sound recording has been published, the performer and maker are entitled, subject to section 20, to be paid equitable remuneration for its performance in public or its communication to the public by telecommunication, except for any retransmission.

• Marginal note:Royalties

  (2) For the purpose of providing the remuneration mentioned in subsection (1), a person who performs a published sound recording in public or communicates it to the public by telecommunication is liable to pay royalties

  • (a) in the case of a sound recording of a musical work, to the collective society authorized under Part VII to collect them; or

  • (b) in the case of a sound recording of a literary work or dramatic work, to either the maker of the sound recording or the performer.

• Marginal note:Division of royalties

  (3) The royalties, once paid pursuant to paragraph (2)(a) or (b), shall be divided so that

  • (a) the performer or performers receive in aggregate fifty per cent; and

  • (b) the maker or makers receive in aggregate fifty per cent.

Marginal note:Conditions

• 20 (1) The right to remuneration conferred by section 19 applies only if

  • (a) the maker was, at the date of the first fixation, a Canadian citizen or permanent resident within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, or a citizen or permanent resident of a Rome Convention country, or, if a corporation, had its headquarters in one of the foregoing countries; or

  • (b) all the fixations done for the sound recording occurred in Canada or in a Rome Convention country.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), if the Minister is of the opinion that a Rome Convention country does not grant a right to remuneration, similar in scope and duration to that provided by section 19, for the performance in public or the communication to the public of a sound recording whose maker, at the date of its first fixation, was a Canadian citizen or permanent resident within the meaning of subsection 2(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 the Canada Gazette, limit the scope and duration of the protection for sound recordings whose first fixation is done by a maker who is a citizen or permanent resident of that country or, if a corporation, has its headquarters in that country.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (3) If so requested by a country that is a party to the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Minister may, by a statement published in the Canada Gazette, grant the right to remuneration conferred by section 19 to performers or makers who are nationals of that country and whose sound recordings embody dramatic or literary works.

• Marginal note:Application of section 19

  (4) Where a statement is published under subsection (3), section 19 applies

  • (a) in respect of nationals of a country mentioned in that statement, as if they were citizens of Canada or, in the case of corporations, had their headquarters in Canada; and

  • (b) as if the fixations made for the purpose of their sound recordings had been made in Canada.

Rights of Broadcasters

Marginal note:Copyright in communication signals

• 21 (1) Subject to subsection (2), a broadcaster has a copyright in the communication signals that it broadcasts, consisting of the sole right to do the following in relation to the communication signal or any substantial part thereof:

  • (a) to fix it,

  • (b) to reproduce any fixation of it that was made without the broadcaster’s consent,

  • (c) to authorize another broadcaster to retransmit it to the public simultaneously with its broadcast, and

  • (d) in the case of a television communication signal, to perform it in a place open to the public on payment of an entrance fee,

  and to authorize any act described in paragraph (a), (b) or (d).

• Marginal note:Conditions for copyright

  (2) Subsection (1) applies only if the broadcaster

  • (a) at the time of the broadcast, had its headquarters in Canada, in a country that is a WTO Member or in a Rome Convention country; and

  • (b) broadcasts the communication signal from that country.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), if the Minister is of the opinion that a Rome Convention country or a country that is a WTO Member does not grant the right mentioned in paragraph (1)(d), the Minister may, by a statement published in the Canada Gazette, declare that broadcasters that have their headquarters in that country are not entitled to that right.

Reciprocity

Marginal note:Reciprocity

• 22 (1) Where the Minister is of the opinion that a country other than a Rome Convention country grants or has undertaken to grant

  • (a) to performers and to makers of sound recordings, or

  • (b) to broadcasters

  that are Canadian citizens or permanent residents within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act or, if corporations, have their headquarters in Canada, as the case may be, whether by treaty, convention, agreement or law, benefits substantially equivalent to those conferred by this Part, the Minister may, by a statement published in the Canada Gazette,

  • (c) grant the benefits conferred by this Part

    • (i) to performers and to makers of sound recordings, or

    • (ii) to broadcasters

    as the case may be, that are citizens, subjects or permanent residents of or, if corporations, have their headquarters in that country, and

  • (d) declare that that country shall, as regards those benefits, be treated as if it were a country to which this Part extends.

• Marginal note:Reciprocity

  (2) Where the Minister is of the opinion that a country other than a Rome Convention country neither grants nor has undertaken to grant

  • (a) to performers, and to makers of sound recordings, or

  • (b) to broadcasters

  that are Canadian citizens or permanent residents within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act or, if corporations, have their headquarters in Canada, as the case may be, whether by treaty, convention, agreement or law, benefits substantially equivalent to those conferred by this Part, the Minister may, by a statement published in the Canada Gazette,

  • (c) grant the benefits conferred by this Part to performers, makers of sound recordings or broadcasters that are citizens, subjects or permanent residents of or, if corporations, have their headquarters in that country, as the case may be, to the extent that that country grants that those benefits to performers, makers of sound recordings or broadcasters that are Canadian citizens or permanent residents within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act or, if corporations, have their headquarters in Canada, and

  • (d) declare that that country shall, as regards those benefits, be treated as if it were a country to which this Part extends.

• Marginal note:Application of Act

  (3) Any provision of this Act that the Minister specifies in a statement referred to in subsection (1) or (2)

  • (a) applies in respect of performers, makers of sound recordings or broadcasters covered by that statement, as if they were citizens of or, if corporations, had their headquarters in Canada; and

  • (b) applies in respect of a country covered by that statement, as if that country were Canada.

• Marginal note:Application of Act

  (4) Subject to any exceptions that the Minister may specify in a statement referred to in subsection (1) or (2), the other provisions of this Act also apply in the way described in subsection (3).

Term of Rights

Marginal note:Term of rights

• 23 (1) Subject to this Act, the rights conferred by sections 15, 18 and 21 terminate fifty years after the end of the calendar year in which

  • (a) in the case of a performer’s performance,

    • (i) its first fixation in a sound recording, or

    • (ii) its performance, if it is not fixed in a sound recording,

    occurred;

  • (b) in the case of a sound recording, the first fixation occurred; or

  • (c) in the case of a communication signal, it was broadcast.

• Marginal note:Term of right to remuneration

  (2) The rights to remuneration conferred on performers and makers by section 19 have the same terms, respectively, as those provided by paragraphs (1)(a) and (b).

• Marginal note:Application of subsections (1) and (2)

  (3) Subsections (1) and (2) apply whether the fixation, performance or broadcast occurred before or after the coming into force of this Part.

• Marginal note:Berne Convention countries, Rome Convention countries, WTO Members

  (4) Where the performer’s performance, sound recording or communication signal meets the requirements set out in section 15, 18 or 21, as the case may be, a country that becomes a Berne Convention country, a Rome Convention country or a WTO Member after the date of the fixation, performance or broadcast is, as of becoming a Berne Convention country, Rome Convention country or WTO Member, as the case may be, deemed to have been such at the date of the fixation, performance or broadcast.

• Marginal note:Where term of protection expired

  (5) Subsection (4) does not confer any protection in Canada where the term of protection in the country referred to in that subsection had expired before that country became a Berne Convention country, Rome Convention country or WTO Member, as the case may be.

Ownership of Copyright

Marginal note:Ownership of copyright

24 The first owner of the copyright

• (a) in a performer’s performance, is the performer;

• (b) in a sound recording, is the maker; or

• (c) in a communication signal, is the broadcaster that broadcasts it.

Marginal note:Assignment of rights

25 Subsections 13(4) to (7) apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require, in respect of the rights conferred by this Part on performers, makers of sound recordings and broadcasters.

Performers’ Rights — WTO Countries

Marginal note:Performer’s performance in WTO country

• 26 (1) Where a performer’s performance takes place on or after January 1, 1996 in a country that is a WTO Member, the performer has, as of the date of the performer’s performance, a copyright in the performer’s performance, consisting of the sole right to do the following in relation to the performer’s performance or any substantial part thereof:

  • (a) if it is not fixed, to communicate it to the public by telecommunication and to fix it in a sound recording, and

  • (b) if it has been fixed in a sound recording without the performer’s authorization, to reproduce the fixation or any substantial part thereof,

  and to authorize any such acts.

• Marginal note:Where country joins WTO after Jan. 1, 1996

  (2) Where a performer’s performance takes place on or after January 1, 1996 in a country that becomes a WTO Member after the date of the performer’s performance, the performer has the copyright described in subsection (1) as of the date the country becomes a WTO Member.

• Marginal note:Performer’s performances before Jan. 1, 1996

  (3) Where a performer’s performance takes place before January 1, 1996 in a country that is a WTO Member, the performer has, as of January 1, 1996, the sole right to do and to authorize the act described in paragraph (1)(b).

• Marginal note:Where country joins WTO after Jan. 1, 1996

  (4) Where a performer’s performance takes place before January 1, 1996 in a country that becomes a WTO Member on or after January 1, 1996, the performer has the right described in subsection (3) as of the date the country becomes a WTO Member.

• Marginal note:Term of performer’s rights

  (5) The rights conferred by this section subsist for the remainder of the calendar year in which the performer’s performance takes place and a period of fifty years following the end of that calendar year.

• Marginal note:Assignment of rights

  (6) Subsections 13(4) to (7) apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require, in respect of a performer’s rights conferred by this section.

• Marginal note:Limitation

  (7) Notwithstanding an assignment of a performer’s right conferred by this section, the performer, as well as the assignee, may

  • (a) prevent the reproduction of

    • (i) any fixation of the performer’s performance, or

    • (ii) any substantial part of such a fixation,

    where the fixation was made without the performer’s consent or the assignee’s consent; and

  • (b) prevent the importation of any fixation of the performer’s performance, or any reproduction of such a fixation, that the importer knows or ought to have known was made without the performer’s consent or the assignee’s consent.

PART IIIInfringement of Copyright and Moral Rights and Exceptions to Infringement

Infringement of Copyright

General

Marginal note:Infringement generally

• 27 (1) 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 only the owner of the copyright has the right to do.

• Marginal note:Secondary infringement

  (2) It is an infringement of copyright for any person to

  • (a) sell or rent out,

  • (b) distribute to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright,

  • (c) by way of trade distribute, expose or offer for sale or rental, or exhibit in public,

  • (d) possess for the purpose of doing anything referred to in paragraphs (a) to (c), or

  • (e) import into Canada for the purpose of doing anything referred to in paragraphs (a) to (c),

  a copy of a work, sound recording or fixation of a performer’s performance or of a communication signal that the person knows or should have known infringes copyright or would infringe copyright if it had been made in Canada by the person who made it.

• Marginal note:Knowledge of importer

  (3) In determining whether there is an infringement under subsection (2) in the case of an activity referred to in any of paragraphs (2)(a) to (d) in relation to a copy that was imported in the circumstances referred to in paragraph (2)(e), it is irrelevant whether the importer knew or should have known that the importation of the copy infringed copyright.

• Marginal note:Plates

  (4) It is an infringement of copyright for any person to make or possess a plate that has been specifically designed or adapted for the purpose of making infringing copies of a work or other subject-matter.

• Marginal note:Public performance for profit

  (5) It is an infringement of copyright for any person, for profit, to permit a theatre or other place of entertainment to be used for the performance in public of a work or other subject-matter without the consent of the owner of the copyright unless that person was not aware, and had no reasonable ground for suspecting, that the performance would be an infringement of copyright.

Parallel Importation of Books

Marginal note:Importation of books

• 27.1 (1) 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

  • (a) copies of the book were made with the consent of the owner of the copyright in the book in the country where the copies were made, but were imported without the consent of the owner of the copyright in the book in Canada; and

  • (b) the person knows or should have known that the book would infringe copyright if it was made in Canada by the importer.

• Marginal note:Secondary infringement

  (2) Subject to any regulations made under subsection (6), where the circumstances described in paragraph (1)(a) exist, it is an infringement of copyright in an imported book for any person who knew or should have known that the book would infringe copyright if it was made in Canada by the importer to

  • (a) sell or rent out the book;

  • (b) by way of trade, distribute, expose or offer for sale or rental, or exhibit in public, the book; or

  • (c) possess the book for the purpose of any of the activities referred to in paragraph (a) or (b).

• Marginal note:Limitation

  (3) Subsections (1) and (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 Canada or in respect of the particular sector of the market for which the person is the exclusive distributor.

• Marginal note:Exclusive distributor

  (4) An exclusive distributor is deemed, for the purposes of entitlement to any of the remedies under Part IV in relation to an infringement under this section, to derive an interest in the copyright in question by licence.

• Marginal note:Notice

  (5) No exclusive distributor, copyright owner or exclusive licensee is entitled to a remedy under Part IV in relation to an infringement under this section unless, before the infringement occurred, notice has been given within the prescribed time and in the prescribed manner to the person referred to in subsection (1) or (2), as the case may be, that there is an exclusive distributor of the book.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (6) The Governor in Council may, by regulation, establish terms and conditions for the importation of certain categories of books, including remaindered books, books intended solely for re-export and books imported by special order.

28 [Repealed, 1997, c. 24, s. 15]

28.01 [Repealed, 1997, c. 24, s. 16]

28.02 and 28.03 [Repealed, 1997, c. 24, s. 17]

Moral Rights Infringement

Marginal note:Infringement generally

28.1 Any act or omission that is contrary to any of the moral rights of the author of a work is, in the absence of consent by the author, an infringement of the moral rights.

Marginal note:Nature of right of integrity

• 28.2 (1) The author’s right to the integrity of a work is infringed only if the work is, to the prejudice of the honour or reputation of the author,

  • (a) distorted, mutilated or otherwise modified; or

  • (b) used in association with a product, service, cause or institution.

• Marginal note:Where prejudice deemed

  (2) In the case of a painting, sculpture or engraving, the prejudice referred to in subsection (1) shall be deemed to have occurred as a result of any distortion, mutilation or other modification of the work.

• Marginal note:When work not distorted, etc.

  (3) For the purposes of this section,

  • (a) a change in the location of a work, the physical means by which a work is exposed or the physical structure containing a work, or

  • (b) steps taken in good faith to restore or preserve the work

  shall not, by that act alone, constitute a distortion, mutilation or other modification of the work.

Exceptions

Fair Dealing

Marginal note:Research or private study

29 Fair dealing for the purpose of research or private study does not infringe copyright.

Marginal note:Criticism or review

29.1 Fair dealing for the purpose of criticism or review does not infringe copyright if the following are mentioned:

• (a) the source; and

• (b) if given in the source, the name of the

  • (i) author, in the case of a work,

  • (ii) performer, in the case of a performer’s performance,

  • (iii) maker, in the case of a sound recording, or

  • (iv) broadcaster, in the case of a communication signal.

Marginal note:News reporting

29.2 Fair dealing for the purpose of news reporting does not infringe copyright if the following are mentioned:

• (a) the source; and

• (b) if given in the source, the name of the

  • (i) author, in the case of a work,

  • (ii) performer, in the case of a performer’s performance,

  • (iii) maker, in the case of a sound recording, or

  • (iv) broadcaster, in the case of a communication signal.

Acts Undertaken without Motive of Gain

Marginal note:Motive of gain

• 29.3 (1) No action referred to in section 29.4, 29.5, 30.2 or 30.21 may be carried out with motive of gain.

• Marginal note:Cost recovery

  (2) An educational institution, library, archive or museum, or person acting under its authority does not have a motive of gain where it or the person acting under its authority, does anything referred to in section 29.4, 29.5, 30.2 or 30.21 and recovers no more than the costs, including overhead costs, associated with doing that act.

Educational Institutions

Marginal note:Reproduction for instruction

• 29.4 (1) It is not an infringement of copyright for an educational institution or a person acting under its authority

  • (a) to make a manual reproduction of a work onto a dry-erase board, flip chart or other similar surface intended for displaying handwritten material, or

  • (b) to make a copy of a work to be used to project an image of that copy using an overhead projector or similar device

  for the purposes of education or training on the premises of an educational institution.

• Marginal note:Reproduction for examinations, etc.

  (2) It is not an infringement of copyright for an educational institution or a person acting under its authority to

  • (a) reproduce, translate or perform in public on the premises of the educational institution, or

  • (b) communicate by telecommunication to the public situated on the premises of the educational institution

  a work or other subject-matter as required for a test or examination.

• Marginal note:Where work commercially available

  (3) Except in the case of manual reproduction, the exemption from copyright infringement provided by paragraph (1)(b) and subsection (2) does not apply if the work or other subject-matter is commercially available in a medium that is appropriate for the purpose referred to in that paragraph or subsection, as the case may be.

Marginal note:Performances

29.5 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 done on the premises of an educational institution for educational or training purposes and not for profit, before an audience consisting primarily of students of the educational institution, instructors acting under the authority of the educational institution or any person who is directly responsible for setting a curriculum for the educational institution:

• (a) the live performance in public, primarily by students of the educational institution, of a work;

• (b) the performance in public of a sound recording or of a work or performer’s performance that is embodied in a sound recording; and

• (c) the performance in public of a work or other subject-matter at the time of its communication to the public by telecommunication.

Marginal note:News and commentary

• 29.6 (1) Subject to subsection (2) and section 29.9, it is not an infringement of copyright for an educational institution or a person acting under its authority to

  • (a) make, at the time of its communication to the public by telecommunication, a single copy of a news program or a news commentary program, excluding documentaries, for the purposes of performing the copy for the students of the educational institution for educational or training purposes; and

  • (b) perform the copy in public, at any time or times within one year after the making of a copy under paragraph (a), before an audience consisting primarily of students of the educational institution on its premises for educational or training purposes.

• Marginal note:Royalties for reproduction and performance

  (2) The educational institution must

  • (a) on the expiration of one year after making a copy under paragraph (1)(a), pay the royalties and comply with any terms and conditions fixed under this Act for the making of the copy or destroy the copy; and

  • (b) where it has paid the royalties referred to in paragraph (a), pay the royalties and comply with any terms and conditions fixed under this Act for any performance in public of the copy after the expiration of that year.

Marginal note:Reproduction of broadcast

• 29.7 (1) Subject to subsection (2) and section 29.9, it is not an infringement of copyright for an educational institution or a person acting under its authority to

  • (a) make a single copy of a work or other subject-matter at the time that it is communicated to the public by telecommunication; and

  • (b) keep the copy for up to thirty days to decide whether to perform the copy for educational or training purposes.

• Marginal note:Royalties for reproduction

  (2) An educational institution that has not destroyed the copy by the expiration of the thirty days infringes copyright in the work or other subject-matter unless it pays any royalties, and complies with any terms and conditions, fixed under this Act for the making of the copy.

• Marginal note:Royalties for performance

  (3) It is not an infringement of copyright for the educational institution or a person acting under its authority to perform the copy in public for educational or training purposes on the premises of the educational institution before an audience consisting primarily of students of the educational institution if the educational institution pays the royalties and complies with any terms and conditions fixed under this Act for the performance in public.

Marginal note:Unlawful reception

29.8 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 telecommunication was received by unlawful means.

Marginal note:Records and marking

• 29.9 (1) Where an educational institution or person acting under its authority

  • (a) makes a copy of a news program or a news commentary program and performs it pursuant to section 29.6, or

  • (b) makes a copy of a work or other subject-matter communicated to the public by telecommunication and performs it pursuant to section 29.7,

  the educational institution shall keep a record of the information prescribed by regulation in relation to the making of the copy, the destruction of it or any performance in public of it for which royalties are payable under this Act and shall, in addition, mark the copy in the manner prescribed by regulation.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (2) The Board may, with the approval of the Governor in Council, make regulations

  • (a) prescribing the information in relation to the making, destruction, performance and marking of copies that must be kept under subsection (1),

  • (b) prescribing the manner and form in which records referred to in that subsection must be kept and copies destroyed or marked, and

  • (c) respecting the sending of information to collective societies referred to in section 71.

Marginal note:Literary collections

30 The publication in a collection, mainly composed of non-copyright matter, intended for the use of educational institutions, and so described in the title and in any advertisements issued by the publisher, of short passages from published literary works in which copyright subsists and not themselves published for the use of educational institutions, does not infringe copyright in those published literary works if

• (a) not more than two passages from works by the same author are published by the same publisher within five years;

• (b) the source from which the passages are taken is acknowledged; and

• (c) the name of the author, if given in the source, is mentioned.

Libraries, Archives and Museums

Marginal note:Management and maintenance of collection

• 30.1 (1) It is not an infringement of copyright for a library, archive or museum or a person acting under the authority of a library, archive or museum to make, for the maintenance or management of its permanent collection or the permanent collection of another library, archive or museum, a copy of a work or other subject-matter, whether published or unpublished, in its permanent collection

  • (a) if the original is rare or unpublished and is

    • (i) deteriorating, damaged or lost, or

    • (ii) at risk of deterioration or becoming damaged or lost;

  • (b) for the purposes of on-site consultation if the original cannot be viewed, handled or listened to because of its condition or because of the atmospheric conditions in which it must be kept;

  • (c) in an alternative format if the original is currently in an obsolete format or the technology required to use the original is unavailable;

  • (d) for the purposes of internal record-keeping and cataloguing;

  • (e) for insurance purposes or police investigations; or

  • (f) if necessary for restoration.

• Marginal note:Limitation

  (2) Paragraphs (1)(a) to (c) do not apply where an appropriate copy is commercially available in a medium and of a quality that is appropriate for the purposes of subsection (1).

• Marginal note:Destruction of intermediate copies

  (3) If a person must make an intermediate copy in order to make a copy under subsection (1), the person must destroy the intermediate copy as soon as it is no longer needed.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (4) The Governor in Council may make regulations with respect to the procedure for making copies under subsection (1).

Marginal note:Research or private study

• 30.2 (1) It is not an infringement of copyright for a library, archive or museum or a person acting under its authority to do anything on behalf of any person that the person may do personally under section 29 or 29.1.

• Marginal note:Copies of articles for research, etc.

  (2) It is not an infringement of copyright for a library, archive or museum or a person acting under the authority of a library, archive or museum to make, by reprographic reproduction, for any person requesting to use the copy for research or private study, a copy of a work that is, or that is contained in, an article published in

  • (a) a scholarly, scientific or technical periodical; or

  • (b) a newspaper or periodical, other than a scholarly, scientific or technical periodical, if the newspaper or periodical was published more than one year before the copy is made.

• Marginal note:Restriction

  (3) Paragraph (2)(b) does not apply in respect of a work of fiction or poetry or a dramatic or musical work.

• Marginal note:Conditions

  (4) A library, archive or museum may make a copy under subsection (2) only on condition that

  • (a) the person for whom the copy will be made has satisfied the library, archive or museum that the person will not use the copy for a purpose other than research or private study; and

  • (b) the person is provided with a single copy of the work.

• Marginal note:Patrons of other libraries, etc.

  (5) A library, archive or museum or a person acting under the authority of a library, archive or museum may do, on behalf of a person who is a patron of another library, archive or museum, anything under subsection (1) or (2) in relation to printed matter that it is authorized by this section to do on behalf of a person who is one of its patrons, but the copy given to the patron must not be in digital form.

• Marginal note:Destruction of intermediate copies

  (5.1) Where an intermediate copy is made in order to copy a work referred to in subsection (5), once the copy is given to the patron, the intermediate copy must be destroyed.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (6) The Governor in Council may, for the purposes of this section, make regulations

  • (a) defining “newspaper” and “periodical”;

  • (b) defining scholarly, scientific and technical periodicals;

  • (c) prescribing the information to be recorded about any action taken under subsection (1) or (5) and the manner and form in which the information is to be kept; and

  • (d) prescribing the manner and form in which the conditions set out in subsection (4) are to be met.

Marginal note:Copying works deposited in archive

• 30.21 (1) It is not an infringement of copyright for an archive to make a copy, in accordance with subsection (3), of an unpublished work that is deposited in the archive.

• Marginal note:Notice

  (2) When a person deposits a work in an archive, the archive must give the person notice that it may copy the work in accordance with this section.

• Marginal note:Conditions for copying of works

  (3) The archive may only copy the work if

  • (a) the person who deposited the work, if a copyright owner, did not, at the time the work was deposited, prohibit its copying;

  • (b) copying has not been prohibited by any other owner of copyright in the work; and

  • (c) the archive is satisfied that the person for whom it is made will use the copy only for purposes of research or private study and makes only one copy for that person.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (4) The Governor in Council may prescribe the manner and form in which the conditions in subsection (3) may be met.

• (5) to (7) [Repealed, 2004, c. 11, s. 21]

Machines Installed in Educational Institutions, Libraries, Archives and Museums

Marginal note:No infringement by educational institution, etc.

• 30.3 (1) An educational institution or a library, archive or museum does not infringe copyright where

  • (a) a copy of a work is made using a machine for the making, by reprographic reproduction, of copies of works in printed form;

  • (b) the machine is installed by or with the approval of the educational institution, library, archive or museum on its premises for use by students, instructors or staff at the educational institution or by persons using the library, archive or museum; and

  • (c) there is affixed in the prescribed manner and location a notice warning of infringement of copyright.

• Marginal note:Application

  (2) Subsection (1) only applies if, in respect of a reprographic reproduction,

  • (a) the educational institution, library, archive or museum has entered into an agreement with a collective society that is authorized by copyright owners to grant licences on their behalf;

  • (b) the Board has, in accordance with section 70.2, fixed the royalties and related terms and conditions in respect of a licence;

  • (c) a tariff has been approved in accordance with section 70.15; or

  • (d) a collective society has filed a proposed tariff in accordance with section 70.13.

• Marginal note:Order

  (3) Where a collective society offers to negotiate or has begun to negotiate an agreement referred to in paragraph (2)(a), the Board may, at the request of either party, order that the educational institution, library, archive or museum be treated as an institution to which subsection (1) applies, during the period specified in the order.

• Marginal note:Agreement with copyright owner

  (4) Where an educational institution, library, archive or museum has entered into an agreement with a copyright owner other than a collective society respecting reprographic reproduction, subsection (1) applies only in respect of the works of the copyright owner that are covered by the agreement.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (5) The Governor in Council may, for the purposes of paragraph 1(c), prescribe by regulation the manner of affixing and location of notices and the dimensions, form and contents of notices.

Libraries, Archives and Museums in Educational Institutions

Marginal note:Application to libraries, etc. within educational institutions

30.4 For greater certainty, the exceptions to infringement of copyright provided for under sections 29.4 to 30.3 and 45 also apply in respect of a library, archive or museum that forms part of an educational institution.

National Archives of Canada

Marginal note:Copies for archival purposes

30.5 The National Archives of Canada may

• (a) make a copy of a recording, as defined in section 8 of the National Archives Act, for the purposes of that section; and

• (b) at the time that a broadcasting undertaking, within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Broadcasting Act, communicates a work or other subject-matter to the public by telecommunication, make a copy for archival purposes of the work or other subject-matter that is included in that communication.

Computer Programs

Marginal note:Permitted acts

30.6 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 owner of the copyright to

• (a) make a single reproduction of the copy by adapting, modifying or converting the computer program or translating it into another computer language if the person proves that the reproduced copy is

  • (i) essential for the compatibility of the computer program with a particular computer,

  • (ii) solely for the person’s own use, and

  • (iii) destroyed immediately after the person ceases to be the owner of the copy; or

• (b) make a single reproduction for backup purposes of the copy or of a reproduced copy referred to in paragraph (a) if the person proves that the reproduction for backup purposes is destroyed immediately when the person ceases to be the owner of the copy of the computer program.

Incidental Inclusion

Marginal note:Incidental use

30.7 It is not an infringement of copyright to incidentally and not deliberately

• (a) include a work or other subject-matter in another work or other subject-matter; or

• (b) do any act in relation to a work or other subject-matter that is incidentally and not deliberately included in another work or other subject-matter.

Ephemeral Recordings

Marginal note:Ephemeral recordings

• 30.8 (1) It is not an infringement of copyright for a programming undertaking to fix or reproduce in accordance with this section a performer’s performance or work, other than a cinematographic work, that is performed live or a sound recording that is performed at the same time as the performer’s performance or work, if the undertaking

  • (a) is authorized to communicate the performer’s performance, work or sound recording to the public by telecommunication;

  • (b) makes the fixation or the reproduction itself, for its own broadcasts;

  • (c) does not synchronize the fixation or reproduction with all or part of another recording, performer’s performance or work; and

  • (d) does not cause the fixation or reproduction to be used in an advertisement intended to sell or promote, as the case may be, a product, service, cause or institution.

• Marginal note:Record keeping

  (2) The programming undertaking must record the dates of the making and destruction of all fixations and reproductions and any other prescribed information about the fixation or reproduction, and keep the record current.

• Marginal note:Right of access by copyright owners

  (3) The programming undertaking must make the record referred to in subsection (2) available to owners of copyright in the works, sound recordings or performer’s performances, or their representatives, within twenty-four hours after receiving a request.

• Marginal note:Destruction

  (4) The programming undertaking must destroy the fixation or reproduction within thirty days after making it, unless

  • (a) the copyright owner authorizes its retention; or

  • (b) it is deposited in an archive, in accordance with subsection (6).

• Marginal note:Royalties

  (5) Where the copyright owner authorizes the fixation or reproduction to be retained after the thirty days, the programming undertaking must pay any applicable royalty.

• Marginal note:Archive

  (6) Where the programming undertaking considers a fixation or reproduction to be of an exceptional documentary character, the undertaking may, with the consent of an official archive, deposit it in the official archive and must notify the copyright owner, within thirty days, of the deposit of the fixation or reproduction.

• Marginal note:Definition of “official archive”

  (7) In subsection (6), official archive means the National Archives of Canada or any archive established under the law of a province for the preservation of the official archives of the province.

• Marginal note:Application

  (8) This section does not apply where a licence is available from a collective society to make the fixation or reproduction of the performer’s performance, work or sound recording.

• Marginal note:Telecommunications by networks

  (9) A broadcasting undertaking, as defined in the Broadcasting Act, may make a single reproduction of a fixation or reproduction made by a programming undertaking and communicate it to the public by telecommunication, within the period referred to in subsection (4), if the broadcasting undertaking meets the conditions set out in subsection (1) and is part of a prescribed network that includes the programming undertaking.

• Marginal note:Limitations

  (10) The reproduction and communication to the public by telecommunication must be made

  • (a) in accordance with subsections (2) to (6); and

  • (b) within thirty days after the day on which the programming undertaking made the fixation or reproduction.

• Marginal note:Definition of “programming undertaking”

  (11) In this section, programming undertaking means

  • (a) a programming undertaking as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Broadcasting Act;

  • (b) a programming undertaking described in paragraph (a) that originates programs within a network, as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Broadcasting Act; or

  • (c) a distribution undertaking as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Broadcasting Act, in respect of the programs that it originates.

  The undertaking must hold a broadcasting licence issued by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission under the Broadcasting Act.

Marginal note:Pre-recorded recordings

• 30.9 (1) It is not an infringement of copyright for a broadcasting undertaking to reproduce in accordance with this section a sound recording, or a performer’s performance or work that is embodied in a sound recording, solely for the purpose of transferring it to a format appropriate for broadcasting, if the undertaking

  • (a) owns the copy of the sound recording, performer’s performance or work and that copy is authorized by the owner of the copyright;

  • (b) is authorized to communicate the sound recording, performer’s performance or work to the public by telecommunication;

  • (c) makes the reproduction itself, for its own broadcasts;

  • (d) does not synchronize the reproduction with all or part of another recording, performer’s performance or work; and

  • (e) does not cause the reproduction to be used in an advertisement intended to sell or promote, as the case may be, a product, service, cause or institution.

• Marginal note:Record keeping

  (2) The broadcasting undertaking must record the dates of the making and destruction of all reproductions and any other prescribed information about the reproduction, and keep the record current.

• Marginal note:Right of access by copyright owners

  (3) The broadcasting undertaking must make the record referred to in subsection (2) available to owners of copyright in the sound recordings, performer’s performances or works, or their representatives, within twenty-four hours after receiving a request.

• Marginal note:Destruction

  (4) The broadcasting undertaking must destroy the reproduction when it no longer possesses the sound recording or performer’s performance or work embodied in the sound recording, or at the latest within thirty days after making the reproduction, unless the copyright owner authorizes the reproduction to be retained.

• Marginal note:Royalty

  (5) If the copyright owner authorizes the reproduction to be retained, the broadcasting undertaking must pay any applicable royalty.

• Marginal note:Application

  (6) This section does not apply if a licence is available from a collective society to reproduce the sound recording, performer’s performance or work.

• Definition of broadcasting undertaking

  (7) In this section, broadcasting undertaking means a broadcasting undertaking as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Broadcasting Act that holds a broadcasting licence issued by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission under that Act.

Retransmission

Marginal note:Interpretation

• 31 (1) In this section,

  new media retransmitter

  new media retransmitter means a person whose retransmission is lawful under the Broadcasting Act only by reason of the Exemption Order for New Media Broadcasting Undertakings issued by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission as Appendix A to Public Notice CRTC 1999-197, as amended from time to time; (retransmetteur de nouveaux médias)

  retransmitter

  retransmitter means a person who performs a function comparable to that of a cable retransmission system, but does not include a new media retransmitter; (retransmetteur)

  signal

  signal means a signal that carries a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work and is transmitted for free reception by the public by a terrestrial radio or terrestrial television station. (signal)

• Marginal note:Retransmission of local and distant signals

  (2) It is not an infringement of copyright for a retransmitter to communicate to the public by telecommunication any literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work if

  • (a) the communication is a retransmission of a local or distant signal;

  • (b) the retransmission is lawful under the Broadcasting Act;

  • (c) the signal is retransmitted simultaneously and without alteration, except as otherwise required or permitted by or under the laws of Canada;

  • (d) in the case of the retransmission of a distant signal, the retransmitter has paid any royalties, and complied with any terms and conditions, fixed under this Act; and

  • (e) the retransmitter complies with the applicable conditions, if any, referred to in paragraph (3)(b).

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (3) The Governor in Council may make regulations

  • (a) defining “local signal” and “distant signal” for the purposes of subsection (2); and

  • (b) prescribing conditions for the purposes of paragraph (2)(e), and specifying whether any such condition applies to all retransmitters or only to a class of retransmitter.

Persons with Perceptual Disabilities

Marginal note:Reproduction in alternate format

• 32 (1) It is not an infringement of copyright for a person, at the request of a person with a perceptual disability, or for a non-profit organization acting for his or her benefit, to

  • (a) make a copy or sound recording of a literary, musical, artistic or dramatic work, other than a cinematographic work, in a format specially designed for persons with a perceptual disability;

  • (b) translate, adapt or reproduce in sign language a literary or dramatic work, other than a cinematographic work, in a format specially designed for persons with a perceptual disability; or

  • (c) perform in public a literary or dramatic work, other than a cinematographic work, in sign language, either live or in a format specially designed for persons with a perceptual disability.

• Marginal note:Limitation

  (2) Subsection (1) does not authorize the making of a large print book.

• Marginal note:Limitation

  (3) Subsection (1) does not apply where the work or sound recording is commercially available in a format specially designed to meet the needs of any person referred to in that subsection, within the meaning of paragraph (a) of the definition “commercially available”.

Statutory Obligations

Marginal note:No infringement

• 32.1 (1) It is not an infringement of copyright for any person

  • (a) to disclose, pursuant to the Access to Information Act, a record within the meaning of that Act, or to disclose, pursuant to any like Act of the legislature of a province, like material;

  • (b) to disclose, pursuant to the Privacy Act, personal information within the meaning of that Act, or to disclose, pursuant to any like Act of the legislature of a province, like information;

  • (c) to make a copy of an object referred to in section 14 of the Cultural Property Export and Import Act, for deposit in an institution pursuant to a direction under that section; and

  • (d) to make a fixation or copy of a work or other subject-matter in order to comply with the Broadcasting Act or any rule, regulation or other instrument made under it.

• Marginal note:Limitation

  (2) Nothing in paragraph (1)(a) or (b) authorizes a person to whom a record or information is disclosed to do anything that, by this Act, only the owner of the copyright in the record, personal information or like information, as the case may be, has a right to do.

• Marginal note:Destruction of fixation or copy

  (3) Unless the Broadcasting Act otherwise provides, a person who makes a fixation or copy under paragraph (1)(d) shall destroy it immediately on the expiration of the period for which it must be kept pursuant to that Act, rule, regulation or other instrument.

Miscellaneous

Marginal note:Permitted acts

• 32.2 (1) It is not an infringement of copyright

  • (a) for an author of an artistic work who is not the owner of the copyright in the work to use any mould, cast, sketch, plan, model or study made by the author for the purpose of the work, if the author does not thereby repeat or imitate the main design of the work;

  • (b) for any person to reproduce, in a painting, drawing, engraving, photograph or cinematographic work

    • (i) an architectural work, provided the copy is not in the nature of an architectural drawing or plan, or

    • (ii) a sculpture or work of artistic craftsmanship or a cast or model of a sculpture or work of artistic craftsmanship, that is permanently situated in a public place or building;

  • (c) for any person to make or publish, for the purposes of news reporting or news summary, a report of a lecture given in public, unless the report is prohibited by conspicuous written or printed notice affixed before and maintained during the lecture at or about the main entrance of the building in which the lecture is given, and, except while the building is being used for public worship, in a position near the lecturer;

  • (d) for any person to read or recite in public a reasonable extract from a published work; or

  • (e) for any person to make or publish, for the purposes of news reporting or news summary, a report of an address of a political nature given at a public meeting.

• Marginal note:Further permitted acts

  (2) It is not an infringement of copyright for a person to do any of the following acts without motive of gain at any agricultural or agricultural-industrial exhibition or fair that receives a grant from or is held by its directors under federal, provincial or municipal authority:

  • (a) the live performance in public of a musical work;

  • (b) the performance in public of a sound recording embodying a musical work or a performer’s performance of a musical work; or

  • (c) the performance in public of a communication signal carrying

    • (i) the live performance in public of a musical work, or

    • (ii) a sound recording embodying a musical work or a performer’s performance of a musical work.

• Marginal note:Further permitted acts

  (3) No religious organization or institution, educational institution and no charitable or fraternal organization shall be held liable to pay any compensation for doing any of the following acts in furtherance of a religious, educational or charitable object:

  • (a) the live performance in public of a musical work;

  • (b) the performance in public of a sound recording embodying a musical work or a performer’s performance of a musical work; or

  • (c) the performance in public of a communication signal carrying

    • (i) the live performance in public of a musical work, or

    • (ii) a sound recording embodying a musical work or a performer’s performance of a musical work.

Interpretation

Marginal note:No right to equitable remuneration

32.3 For the purposes of sections 29 to 32.2, an act that does not infringe copyright does not give rise to a right to remuneration conferred by section 19.

Compensation for Acts Done Before Recognition of Copyright of Performers and Broadcasters

Marginal note:Certain rights and interests protected

• 32.4 (1) Notwithstanding section 27, where a person has, before the later of January 1, 1996 and the day on which a country becomes a WTO member, incurred an expenditure or liability in connection with, or in preparation for, the doing of an act that would have infringed copyright under section 26 commencing on the later of those days, had that country been a WTO member, any right or interest of that person that

  • (a) arises from or in connection with the doing of that act, and

  • (b) is subsisting and valuable on the later of those days

  is not prejudiced or diminished by reason only that that country has become a WTO member, except as provided by an order of the Board made under subsection 78(3).

• Marginal note:Compensation

  (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a person’s right or interest that is protected by that subsection terminates if and when the owner of the copyright pays that person such compensation as is agreed to between the parties or, failing agreement, as is determined by the Board in accordance with section 78.

• Marginal note:Limitation

  (3) Nothing in subsections (1) and (2) affects any right of a performer available in law or equity.

Marginal note:Certain rights and interests protected

• 32.5 (1) Notwithstanding section 27, where a person has, before the later of the coming into force of Part II and the day on which a country becomes a Rome Convention country, incurred an expenditure or liability in connection with, or in preparation for, the doing of an act that would have infringed copyright under section 15 or 21 commencing on the later of those days, had Part II been in force or had that country been a Rome Convention country, any right or interest of that person that

  • (a) arises from or in connection with the doing of that act, and

  • (b) is subsisting and valuable on the later of those days

  is not prejudiced or diminished by reason only that Part II has come into force or that the country has become a Rome Convention country, except as provided by an order of the Board made under subsection 78(3).

• Marginal note:Compensation

  (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a person’s right or interest that is protected by that subsection terminates if and when the owner of the copyright pays that person such compensation as is agreed to between the parties or, failing agreement, as is determined by the Board in accordance with section 78.

• Marginal note:Limitation

  (3) Nothing in subsections (1) and (2) affects any right of a performer available in law or equity.

Compensation for Acts Done Before Recognition of Copyright or Moral Rights

Marginal note:Certain rights and interests protected

• 33 (1) Notwithstanding subsections 27(1), (2) and (4) and sections 27.1, 28.1 and 28.2, where a person has, before the later of January 1, 1996 and the day on which a country becomes a treaty country, incurred an expenditure or liability in connection with, or in preparation for, the doing of an act that would have infringed a copyright owner’s copyright or an author’s moral rights had that country been a treaty country, any right or interest of that person that

  • (a) arises from or in connection with the doing of that act, and

  • (b) is subsisting and valuable on the latest of those days

  is not prejudiced or diminished by reason only that that country has become a treaty country, except as provided by an order of the Board made under subsection 78(3).

• Marginal note:Compensation

  (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a person’s right or interest that is protected by that subsection terminates, as against the copyright owner or author, if and when that copyright owner or the author, as the case may be, pays that person such compensation as is agreed to between the parties or, failing agreement, as is determined by the Board in accordance with section 78.

PART IVRemedies

Civil Remedies

Marginal note:Copyright

• 34 (1) Where copyright has been infringed, the owner of the copyright is, subject to this Act, entitled to all remedies by way of injunction, damages, accounts, delivery up and otherwise that are or may be conferred by law for the infringement of a right.

• Marginal note:Moral rights

  (2) In any proceedings for an infringement of a moral right of an author, the court may grant to the author or to the person who holds the moral rights by virtue of subsection 14.2(2) or (3), as the case may be, all remedies by way of injunction, damages, accounts, delivery up and otherwise that are or may be conferred by law for the infringement of a right.

• Marginal note:Costs

  (3) The costs of all parties in any proceedings in respect of the infringement of a right conferred by this Act shall be in the discretion of the court.

• Marginal note:Summary proceedings

  (4) The following proceedings may be commenced or proceeded with by way of application or action and shall, in the case of an application, be heard and determined without delay and in a summary way:

  • (a) proceedings for infringement of copyright or moral rights;

  • (b) proceedings taken under section 44.1, 44.2 or 44.4; and

  • (c) proceedings taken in respect of

    • (i) a tariff certified by the Board under Part VII or VIII, or

    • (ii) agreements referred to in section 70.12.

• Marginal note:Practice and procedure

  (5) The rules of practice and procedure, in civil matters, of the court in which proceedings are commenced by way of application apply to those proceedings, but where those rules do not provide for the proceedings to be heard and determined without delay and in a summary way, the court may give such directions as it considers necessary in order to so provide.

• Marginal note:Actions

  (6) The court in which proceedings are instituted by way of application may, where it considers it appropriate, direct that the proceeding be proceeded with as an action.

• Meaning of application

  (7) In this section, application means a proceeding that is commenced other than by way of a writ or statement of claim.

Marginal note:Presumptions respecting copyright and ownership

• 34.1 (1) In any proceedings for infringement of copyright in which the defendant puts in issue either the existence of the copyright or the title of the plaintiff thereto,

  • (a) copyright shall be presumed, unless the contrary is proved, to subsist in the work, performer’s performance, sound recording or communication signal, as the case may be; and

  • (b) the author, performer, maker or broadcaster, as the case may be, shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed to be the owner of the copyright.

• Marginal note:Where no grant registered

  (2) Where any matter referred to in subsection (1) is at issue and no assignment of the copyright, or licence granting an interest in the copyright, has been registered under this Act,

  • (a) if a name purporting to be that of

    • (i) the author of the work,

    • (ii) the performer of the performer’s performance,

    • (iii) the maker of the sound recording, or

    • (iv) the broadcaster of the communication signal

    is printed or otherwise indicated thereon in the usual manner, the person whose name is so printed or indicated shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed to be the author, performer, maker or broadcaster;

  • (b) if

    • (i) no name is so printed or indicated, or if the name so printed or indicated is not the true name of the author, performer, maker or broadcaster or the name by which that person is commonly known, and

    • (ii) a name purporting to be that of the publisher or owner of the work, performer’s performance, sound recording or communication signal is printed or otherwise indicated thereon in the usual manner,

    the person whose name is printed or indicated as described in subparagraph (ii) shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed to be the owner of the copyright in question; and

  • (c) if, on a cinematographic work, a name purporting to be that of the maker of the cinematographic work appears in the usual manner, the person so named shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed to be the maker of the cinematographic work.

Marginal note:Liability for infringement

• 35 (1) Where a person infringes copyright, the person is liable to pay such damages to the owner of the copyright as the owner has suffered due to the infringement and, in addition to those damages, such part of the profits that the infringer has made from the infringement and that were not taken into account in calculating the damages as the court considers just.

• Marginal note:Proof of profits

  (2) In proving profits,

  • (a) the plaintiff shall be required to prove only receipts or revenues derived from the infringement; and

  • (b) the defendant shall be required to prove every element of cost that the defendant claims.

Marginal note:Protection of separate rights

• 36 (1) Subject to this section, the owner of any copyright, or any person or persons deriving any right, title or interest by assignment or grant in writing from the owner, may individually for himself or herself, as a party to the proceedings in his or her own name, protect and enforce any right that he or she holds, and, to the extent of that right, title and interest, is entitled to the remedies provided by this Act.

• Marginal note:Where copyright owner to be made party

  (2) Where proceedings referred to in subsection (1) are taken by a person other than the copyright owner, the copyright owner must be made a party to those proceedings, except

  • (a) in respect of proceedings taken under section 44.1, 44.2 or 44.4;

  • (b) in respect of interlocutory proceedings unless the court is of the opinion that the interests of justice require the copyright owner to be a party; and

  • (c) in any other case, if the court is of the opinion that the interests of justice do not require the copyright owner to be a party.

• Marginal note:Owner’s liability for costs

  (3) A copyright owner who is made a party to proceedings pursuant to subsection (2) is not liable for any costs unless the copyright owner takes part in the proceedings.

• Marginal note:Apportionment of damages, profits

  (4) Where a copyright owner is made a party to proceedings pursuant to subsection (2), the court, in awarding damages or profits, shall, subject to any agreement between the person who took the proceedings and the copyright owner, apportion the damages or profits referred to in subsection 35(1) between them as the court considers appropriate.

Marginal note:Concurrent jurisdiction of Federal Court

37 The Federal Court has concurrent jurisdiction with provincial courts to hear and determine all proceedings, other than the prosecution of offences under section 42 and 43, for the enforcement of a provision of this Act or of the civil remedies provided by this Act.

Marginal note:Recovery of possession of copies, plates

• 38 (1) Subject to subsection (2), the owner of the copyright in a work or other subject-matter may

  • (a) recover possession of all infringing copies of that work or other subject-matter, and of all plates used or intended to be used for the production of infringing copies, and

  • (b) take proceedings for seizure of those copies or plates before judgment if, under the law of Canada or of the province in which those proceedings are taken, a person is entitled to take such proceedings,

  as if those copies or plates were the property of the copyright owner.

• Marginal note:Powers of court

  (2) On application by

  • (a) a person from whom the copyright owner has recovered possession of copies or plates referred to in subsection (1),

  • (b) a person against whom proceedings for seizure before judgment of copies or plates referred to in subsection (1) have been taken, or

  • (c) any other person who has an interest in those copies or plates,

  a court may order that those copies or plates be destroyed, or may make any other order that it considers appropriate in the circumstances.

• Marginal note:Notice to interested persons

  (3) Before making an order under subsection (2), the court shall direct that notice be given to any person who has an interest in the copies or plates in question, unless the court is of the opinion that the interests of justice do not require such notice to be given.

• Marginal note:Circumstances court to consider

  (4) In making an order under subsection (2), the court shall have regard to all the circumstances, including

  • (a) the proportion, importance and value of the infringing copy or plate, as compared to the substrate or carrier embodying it; and

  • (b) the extent to which the infringing copy or plate is severable from, or a distinct part of, the substrate or carrier embodying it.

• Marginal note:Limitation

  (5) Nothing in this Act entitles the copyright owner to damages in respect of the possession or conversion of the infringing copies or plates.

Marginal note:Statutory damages

• 38.1 (1) Subject to this section, a copyright owner may elect, at any time before final judgment is rendered, to recover, instead of damages and profits referred to in subsection 35(1), an award of statutory damages for all infringements involved in the proceedings, with respect to any one work or other subject-matter, for which any one infringer is liable individually, or for which any two or more infringers are liable jointly and severally, in a sum of not less than $500 or more than $20,000 as the court considers just.

• Marginal note:Where defendant unaware of infringement

  (2) Where a copyright owner has made an election under subsection (1) and the defendant satisfies the court that the defendant was not aware and had no reasonable grounds to believe that the defendant had infringed copyright, the court may reduce the amount of the award to less than $500, but not less than $200.

• Marginal note:Special case

  (3) Where

  • (a) there is more than one work or other subject-matter in a single medium, and

  • (b) the awarding of even the minimum amount referred to in subsection (1) or (2) would result in a total award that, in the court’s opinion, is grossly out of proportion to the infringement,

  the court may award, with respect to each work or other subject-matter, such lower amount than $500 or $200, as the case may be, as the court considers just.

• Marginal note:Collective societies

  (4) Where the defendant has not paid applicable royalties, a collective society referred to in section 67 may only make an election under this section to recover, in lieu of any other remedy of a monetary nature provided by this Act, an award of statutory damages in a sum of not less than three and not more than ten times the amount of the applicable royalties, as the court considers just.

• Marginal note:Factors to consider

  (5) In exercising its discretion under subsections (1) to (4), the court shall consider all relevant factors, including

  • (a) the good faith or bad faith of the defendant;

  • (b) the conduct of the parties before and during the proceedings; and

  • (c) the need to deter other infringements of the copyright in question.

• Marginal note:No award

  (6) No statutory damages may be awarded against

  • (a) an educational institution or a person acting under its authority that has committed an act referred to in section 29.6 or 29.7 and has not paid any royalties or complied with any terms and conditions fixed under this Act in relation to the commission of the act;

  • (b) an educational institution, library, archive or museum that is sued in the circumstances referred to in section 38.2; or

  • (c) a person who infringes copyright under paragraph 27(2)(e) or section 27.1, where the copy in question was made with the consent of the copyright owner in the country where the copy was made.

• Marginal note:Exemplary or punitive damages not affected

  (7) An election under subsection (1) does not affect any right that the copyright owner may have to exemplary or punitive damages.

Marginal note:Maximum amount that may be recovered

• 38.2 (1) An owner of copyright in a work who has not authorized a collective society to authorize its reprographic reproduction may recover, in proceedings against an educational institution, library, archive or museum that has reproduced the work, a maximum amount equal to the amount of royalties that would have been payable to the society in respect of the reprographic reproduction, if it were authorized, either

  • (a) under any agreement entered into with the collective society; or

  • (b) under a tariff certified by the Board pursuant to section 70.15.

• Marginal note:Agreements with more than one collective society

  (2) Where agreements respecting reprographic reproduction have been signed with more than one collective society or where more than one tariff applies or where both agreements and tariffs apply, the maximum amount that the copyright owner may recover is the largest amount of the royalties provided for in any of those agreements or tariffs.

• Marginal note:Application

  (3) Subsections (1) and (2) apply only where

  • (a) the collective society is entitled to authorize, or the tariff provides for the payment of royalties in respect of, the reprographic reproduction of that category of work; and

  • (b) copying of that general nature and extent is covered by the agreement or tariff.

Marginal note:Injunction only remedy when defendant not aware of copyright

• 39 (1) Subject to subsection (2), in any proceedings for infringement of copyright, the plaintiff is not entitled to any remedy other than an injunction in respect of the infringement if the defendant proves that, at the date of the infringement, the defendant was not aware and had no reasonable ground for suspecting that copyright subsisted in the work or other subject-matter in question.

• Marginal note:Exception where copyright registered

  (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if, at the date of the infringement, the copyright was duly registered under this Act.

Marginal note:Wide injunction

• 39.1 (1) When granting an injunction in respect of an infringement of copyright in a work or other subject-matter, the court may further enjoin the defendant from infringing the copyright in any other work or subject-matter if

  • (a) the plaintiff is the owner of the copyright or the person to whom an interest in the copyright has been granted by licence; and

  • (b) the plaintiff satisfies the court that the defendant will likely infringe the copyright in those other works or subject-matter unless enjoined by the court from doing so.

• Marginal note:Application of injunction

  (2) An injunction granted under subsection (1) may extend to works or other subject-matter

  • (a) in respect of which the plaintiff was not, at the time the proceedings were commenced, the owner of the copyright or the person to whom an interest in the copyright has been granted by licence; or

  • (b) that did not exist at the time the proceedings were commenced.

Marginal note:No injunction in case of a building

• 40 (1) Where the construction of a building or other structure that infringes or that, if completed, would infringe the copyright in some other work has been commenced, the owner of the copyright is not entitled to obtain an injunction in respect of the construction of that building or structure or to order its demolition.

• Marginal note:Certain remedies inapplicable

  (2) Sections 38 and 42 do not apply in any case in respect of which subsection (1) applies.

Marginal note:Limitation period for civil remedies

• 41 (1) Subject to subsection (2), a court may not award a remedy in relation to an infringement unless

  • (a) in the case where the plaintiff knew, or could reasonably have been expected to know, of the infringement at the time it occurred, the proceedings for infringement are commenced within three years after the infringement occurred; or

  • (b) in the case where the plaintiff did not know, and could not reasonably have been expected to know, of the infringement at the time it occurred, the proceedings for infringement are commenced within three years after the time when the plaintiff first knew, or could reasonably have been expected to know, of the infringement.

• Marginal note:Restriction

  (2) The court shall apply the limitation period set out in paragraph (1)(a) or (b) only in respect of a party who pleads a limitation period.

Criminal Remedies

Marginal note:Offences and punishment

• 42 (1) Every person who knowingly

  • (a) makes for sale or rental an infringing copy of a work or other subject-matter in which copyright subsists,

  • (b) sells or rents out, or by way of trade exposes or offers for sale or rental, an infringing copy of a work or other subject-matter in which copyright subsists,

  • (c) distributes infringing copies of a work or other subject-matter in which copyright subsists, either for the purpose of trade or to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright,

  • (d) by way of trade exhibits in public an infringing copy of a work or other subject-matter in which copyright subsists, or

  • (e) imports for sale or rental into Canada any infringing copy of a work or other subject-matter in which copyright subsists

  is guilty of an offence and liable

  • (f) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both, or

  • (g) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding one million dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to both.

• Marginal note:Possession and performance offences and punishment

  (2) Every person who knowingly

  • (a) makes or possesses any plate that is specifically designed or adapted for the purpose of making infringing copies of any work or other subject-matter in which copyright subsists, or

  • (b) for private profit causes to be performed in public, without the consent of the owner of the copyright, any work or other subject-matter in which copyright subsists

  is guilty of an offence and liable

  • (c) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both, or

  • (d) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding one million dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to both.

• Marginal note:Power of court to deal with copies or plates

  (3) The court before which any proceedings under this section are taken may, on conviction, order that all copies of the work or other subject-matter that appear to it to be infringing copies, or all plates in the possession of the offender predominantly used for making infringing copies, be destroyed or delivered up to the owner of the copyright or otherwise dealt with as the court may think fit.

• Marginal note:Limitation period

  (4) Proceedings by summary conviction in respect of an offence under this section may be instituted at any time within, but not later than, two years after the time when the offence was committed.

• Marginal note:Parallel importation of books

  (5) No person may be prosecuted under this section for importing a book or dealing with an imported book in the manner described in section 27.1.

Marginal note:Infringement in case of dramatic, operatic or musical work

• 43 (1) Any person who, without the written consent of the owner of the copyright or of the legal representative of the owner, knowingly performs or causes to be performed in public and for private profit the whole or any part, constituting an infringement, of any dramatic or operatic work or musical composition in which copyright subsists in Canada is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and, in the case of a second or subsequent offence, either to that fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two months or to both.

• Marginal note:Change or suppression of title or author’s name

  (2) Any person who makes or causes to be made any change in or suppression of the title, or the name of the author, of any dramatic or operatic work or musical composition in which copyright subsists in Canada, or who makes or causes to be made any change in the work or composition itself without the written consent of the author or of his legal representative, in order that the work or composition may be performed in whole or in part in public for private profit, is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and, in the case of a second or subsequent offence, either to that fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding four months or to both.

43.1 [Repealed, 1997, c. 24, s. 25]

Importation

Marginal note:Importation of certain copyright works prohibited

44 Copies made out of Canada of any work in which copyright subsists that if made in Canada would infringe copyright and as to which the owner of the copyright gives notice in writing to the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency that the owner desires that the copies not be so imported into Canada, shall not be so imported and are deemed to be included in tariff item No. 9897.00.00 in the List of Tariff Provisions set out in the schedule to the Customs Tariff, and section 136 of that Act applies accordingly.

Marginal note:Definitions

• 44.1 (1) In this section and sections 44.2 and 44.3,

  court

  tribunal

  court means the Federal Court or the superior court of a province; (tribunal)

  duties

  droits

  duties has the same meaning as in the Customs Act; (droits)

  Minister

  ministre

  Minister means the Minister of National Revenue; (ministre)

  release

  dédouanement

  release has the same meaning as in the Customs Act. (dédouanement)

• Marginal note:Power of court

  (2) A court may make an order described in subsection (3) where the court is satisfied that

  • (a) copies of the work are about to be imported into Canada, or have been imported into Canada but have not yet been released;

  • (b) either

    • (i) copies of the work were made without the consent of the person who then owned the copyright in the country where the copies were made, or

    • (ii) the copies were made elsewhere than in a country to which this Act extends; and

  • (c) the copies would infringe copyright if they were made in Canada by the importer and the importer knows or should have known this.

• Marginal note:Who may apply

  (2.1) A court may make an order described in subsection (3) on application by the owner or exclusive licensee of copyright in a work in Canada.

• Marginal note:Order of court

  (3) The order referred to in subsection (2) is an order

  • (a) directing the Minister

    • (i) to take reasonable measures, on the basis of information reasonably required by the Minister and provided by the applicant, to detain the work, and

    • (ii) to notify the applicant and the importer, forthwith after detaining the work, of the detention and the reasons therefor; and

  • (b) providing for such other matters as the court considers appropriate.

• Marginal note:How application made

  (4) An application for an order made under subsection (2) may be made in an action or otherwise, and either on notice or ex parte, except that it must always be made on notice to the Minister.

• Marginal note:Court may require security

  (5) Before making an order under subsection (2), the court may require the applicant to furnish security, in an amount fixed by the court,

  • (a) to cover duties, storage and handling charges, and any other amount that may become chargeable against the work; and

  • (b) to answer any damages that may by reason of the order be incurred by the owner, importer or consignee of the work.

• Marginal note:Application for directions

  (6) The Minister may apply to the court for directions in implementing an order made under subsection (2).

• Marginal note:Minister may allow inspection

  (7) The Minister may give the applicant or the importer an opportunity to inspect the detained work for the purpose of substantiating or refuting, as the case may be, the applicant’s claim.

• Marginal note:Where applicant fails to commence an action

  (8) Unless an order made under subsection (2) provides otherwise, the Minister shall, subject to the Customs Act and to any other Act of Parliament that prohibits, controls or regulates the importation or exportation of goods, release the copies of the work without further notice to the applicant if, two weeks after the applicant has been notified under subparagraph (3)(a)(ii), the applicant has not notified the Minister that the applicant has commenced a proceeding for a final determination by the court of the issues referred to in paragraphs (2)(b) and (c).

• Marginal note:Where court finds in plaintiff’s favour

  (9) Where, in a proceeding commenced under this section, the court finds that the circumstances referred to in paragraphs (2)(b) and (c) existed, the court may make any order that it considers appropriate in the circumstances, including an order that the copies of the work be destroyed, or that they be delivered up to the plaintiff as the plaintiff’s property absolutely.

• Marginal note:Other remedies not affected

  (10) For greater certainty, nothing in this section affects any remedy available under any other provision of this Act or any other Act of Parliament.

Marginal note:Importation of books

• 44.2 (1) A court may, subject to this section, make an order described in subsection 44.1(3) in relation to a book where the court is satisfied that

  • (a) copies of the book are about to be imported into Canada, or have been imported into Canada but have not yet been released;

  • (b) copies of the book were made with the consent of the owner of the copyright in the book in the country where the copies were made, but were imported without the consent of the owner in Canada of the copyright in the book; and

  • (c) the copies would infringe copyright if they were made in Canada by the importer and the importer knows or should have known this.

• Marginal note:Who may apply

  (2) A court may make an order described in subsection 44.1(3) in relation to a book on application by

  • (a) the owner of the copyright in the book in Canada;

  • (b) the exclusive licensee of the copyright in the book in Canada; or

  • (c) the exclusive distributor of the book.

• Marginal note:Limitation

  (3) Subsections (1) and (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 Canada or in respect of the particular sector of the market for which the person is the exclusive distributor.

• Marginal note:Application of certain provisions

  (4) Subsections 44.1(3) to (10) apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require, in respect of an order made under subsection (1).

Marginal note:Limitation

44.3 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 another exclusive licensee of the copyright in that book in Canada or against another exclusive distributor of that book.

Marginal note:Importation of other subject-matter

44.4 Section 44.1 applies, with such modifications as the circumstances require, in respect of a sound recording, performer’s performance or communication signal, where a fixation or a reproduction of a fixation of it

• (a) is about to be imported into Canada, or has been imported into Canada but has not yet been released;

• (b) either

  • (i) was made without the consent of the person who then owned the copyright in the sound recording, performer’s performance or communication signal, as the case may be, in the country where the fixation or reproduction was made, or

  • (ii) was made elsewhere than in a country to which Part II extends; and

• (c) would infringe the right of the owner of copyright in the sound recording, performer’s performance or communication signal if it was made in Canada by the importer and the importer knows or should have known this.

Marginal note:Exceptions

• 45 (1) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, it is lawful for a person

  • (a) to import for their own use not more than two copies of a work or other subject-matter made with the consent of the owner of the copyright in the country where it was made;

  • (b) to import for use by a department of the Government of Canada or a province copies of a work or other subject-matter made with the consent of the owner of the copyright in the country where it was made;

  • (c) at any time before copies of a work or other subject-matter are made in Canada, to import any copies, except copies of a book, made with the consent of the owner of the copyright in the country where the copies were made, that are required for the use of a library, archive, museum or educational institution;

  • (d) to import, for the use of a library, archive, museum or educational institution, not more than one copy of a book that is made with the consent of the owner of the copyright in the country where the book was made; and

  • (e) to import copies, made with the consent of the owner of the copyright in the country where they were made, of any used books, except textbooks of a scientific, technical or scholarly nature for use within an educational institution in a course of instruction.

• Marginal note:Satisfactory evidence

  (2) An officer of customs may, in the officer’s discretion, require a person seeking to import a copy of a work or other subject-matter under this section to produce satisfactory evidence of the facts necessary to establish the person’s right to import the copy.

PART VAdministration

Copyright Office

Marginal note:Copyright Office

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

Marginal note:Powers of Commissioner and Registrar

47 The Commissioner of Patents shall exercise the powers conferred and perform the duties imposed on him by this Act under the direction of the Minister, and, in the absence of the Commissioner of Patents or if the Commissioner is unable to act, the Registrar of Copyrights or other officer temporarily appointed by the Minister may, as Acting Commissioner, exercise those powers and perform those duties under the direction of the Minister.

Marginal note:Registrar

48 There shall be a Registrar of Copyrights.

Marginal note:Register of Copyrights, certificates and certified copies

49 The Commissioner of Patents, the Registrar of Copyrights or an officer, clerk or employee of the Copyright Office may sign certificates and certified copies of the Register of Copyrights.

Marginal note:Other duties of Registrar

50 The Registrar of Copyrights shall perform such other duties in connection with the administration of this Act as may be assigned to him by the Commissioner of Patents.

51 [Repealed, 1992, c. 1, s. 48]

Marginal note:Control of business and officials

52 The Commissioner of Patents shall, subject to the Minister, oversee and direct the officers, clerks and employees of the Copyright Office, have general control of the business thereof and perform such other duties as are assigned to him by the Governor in Council.

Marginal note:Register to be evidence

• 53 (1) 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 particulars of the entry if it is certified by the Commissioner of Patents, the Registrar of Copyrights or an officer, clerk or employee of the Copyright Office as a true copy.

• Marginal note:Owner of copyright

  (2) A certificate of registration of copyright is evidence that the copyright subsists and that the person registered is the owner of the copyright.

• Marginal note:Assignee

  (2.1) A certificate of registration of an assignment of copyright is evidence that the right recorded on the certificate has been assigned and that the assignee registered is the owner of that right.

• Marginal note:Licensee

  (2.2) A certificate of registration of a licence granting an interest in a copyright is evidence that the interest recorded on the certificate has been granted and that the licensee registered is the holder of that interest.

• Marginal note:Admissibility

  (3) A certified copy or certificate appearing to have been issued under this section is admissible in all courts without proof of the signature or official character of the person appearing to have signed it.

Registration

Marginal note:Register of Copyrights

• 54 (1) 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

  • (a) the names or titles of works and of other subject-matter in which copyright subsists;

  • (b) the names and addresses of authors, performers, makers of sound recordings, broadcasters, owners of copyright, assignees of copyright, and persons to whom an interest in copyright has been granted by licence; and

  • (c) such other particulars as may be prescribed by regulation.

• (2) [Repealed, 1997, c. 24, s. 31]

• Marginal note:Single entry sufficient

  (3) In the case of an encyclopaedia, newspaper, review, magazine or other periodical work, or work published in a series of books or parts, it is not necessary to make a separate entry for each number or part, but a single entry for the whole work is sufficient.

• Marginal note:Indices

  (4) There shall also be kept at the Copyright Office such indices of the Register established under this section as may be prescribed by regulation.

• Marginal note:Inspection and extracts

  (5) The Register and indices established under this section shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection, and any person is entitled to make copies of or take extracts from the Register.

• Marginal note:Former registration effective

  (6) Any registration made under the Copyright Act, chapter 70 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1906, has the same force and effect as if made under this Act.

• Marginal note:Subsisting copyright

  (7) Any work in which copyright, operative in Canada, subsisted immediately before January 1, 1924 is registrable under this Act.

Marginal note:Copyright in works

• 55 (1) 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 in the work, an assignee of the copyright, or a person to whom an interest in the copyright has been granted by licence.

• Marginal note:Application for registration

  (2) An application under subsection (1) must be filed with the Copyright Office, be accompanied by the fee prescribed by or determined under the regulations, and contain the following information:

  • (a) the name and address of the owner of the copyright in the work;

  • (b) a declaration that the applicant is the author of the work, the owner of the copyright in the work, an assignee of the copyright, or a person to whom an interest in the copyright has been granted by licence;

  • (c) the category of the work;

  • (d) the title of the work;

  • (e) the name of the author and, if the author is dead, the date of the author’s death, if known;

  • (f) in the case of a published work, the date and place of the first publication; and

  • (g) any additional information prescribed by regulation.

Marginal note:Copyright in subject-matter other than works

• 56 (1) Application for the registration of a copyright in subject-matter other than a work may be made by or on behalf of the owner of the copyright in the subject-matter, an assignee of the copyright, or a person to whom an interest in the copyright has been granted by licence.

• Marginal note:Application for registration

  (2) An application under subsection (1) must be filed with the Copyright Office, be accompanied by the fee prescribed by or determined under the regulations, and contain the following information:

  • (a) the name and address of the owner of the copyright in the subject-matter;

  • (b) a declaration that the applicant is the owner of the copyright in the subject-matter, an assignee of the copyright, or a person to whom an interest in the copyright has been granted by licence;

  • (c) whether the subject-matter is a performer’s performance, a sound recording or a communication signal;

  • (d) the title, if any, of the subject-matter;

  • (e) the date of

    • (i) in the case of a performer’s performance, its first fixation in a sound recording or, if it is not fixed in a sound recording, its first performance,

    • (ii) in the case of a sound recording, the first fixation, or

    • (iii) in the case of a communication signal, its broadcast; and

  • (f) any additional information prescribed by regulation.

Marginal note:Recovery of damages

56.1 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 person, any damage caused by a fraudulent or erroneous assumption of such authority is recoverable in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Marginal note:Registration of assignment or licence

• 57 (1) The Registrar of Copyrights shall register an assignment of copyright, or a licence granting an interest in a copyright, on being furnished with

  • (a) the original instrument or a certified copy of it, or other evidence satisfactory to the Registrar of the assignment or licence; and

  • (b) the fee prescribed by or determined under the regulations.

• (2) [Repealed, 1992, c. 1, s. 51]

• Marginal note:When assignment or licence is void

  (3) Any assignment of copyright, or any licence granting an interest in a copyright, shall be adjudged void against any subsequent assignee or licensee for valuable consideration without actual notice, unless the prior assignment or licence is registered in the manner prescribed by this Act before the registering of the instrument under which the subsequent assignee or licensee claims.

• Marginal note:Rectification of Register by the Court

  (4) The Federal Court may, on application of the Registrar of Copyrights or of any interested person, order the rectification of the Register of Copyrights by

  • (a) the making of any entry wrongly omitted to be made in the Register,

  • (b) the expunging of any entry wrongly made in or remaining on the Register, or

  • (c) the correction of any error or defect in the Register,

  and any rectification of the Register under this subsection shall be retroactive from such date as the Court may order.

Marginal note:Execution of instruments

• 58 (1) Any assignment of copyright, or any licence granting an interest in a copyright, may be executed, subscribed or acknowledged at any place in a treaty country or a Rome Convention country by the assignor, licensor or mortgagor, before any notary public, commissioner or other official or the judge of any court, who is authorized by law to administer oaths or perform notarial acts in that place, and who also subscribes their signature and affixes thereto or impresses thereon their official seal or the seal of the court of which they are such judge.

• Marginal note:Execution of instruments

  (2) Any assignment of copyright, or any licence granting an interest in a copyright, may be executed, subscribed or acknowledged by the assignor, licensor or mortgagor, in any other foreign country before any notary public, commissioner or other official or the judge of any court of the foreign country, who is authorized to administer oaths or perform notarial acts in that foreign country and whose authority shall be proved by the certificate of a diplomatic or consular officer of Canada performing their functions in that foreign country.

• Marginal note:Seals to be evidence

  (3) The official seal or seal of the court or the certificate of a diplomatic or consular officer is evidence of the execution of the instrument, and the instrument with the seal or certificate affixed or attached thereto is admissible as evidence in any action or proceeding brought under this Act without further proof.

• Marginal note:Other testimony

  (4) The provisions of subsections (1) and (2) shall be deemed to be permissive only, and the execution of any assignment of copyright, or any licence granting an interest in a copyright, may in any case be proved in accordance with the applicable rules of evidence.

Fees

Marginal note:Fees regulations

59 The Governor in Council may make regulations

• (a) prescribing fees, or the manner of determining fees, to be paid for anything required or authorized to be done in the administration of this Act; and

• (b) prescribing the time and manner in which the fees must be paid.

PART VIMiscellaneous Provisions

Substituted Right

Marginal note:Subsistence of substituted right

• 60 (1) Where any person is immediately before January 1, 1924 entitled to any right in any work that is set out in column I of Schedule I, or to any interest in such a right, he is, as from that date, entitled to the substituted right set out in column II of that Schedule, or to the same interest in the substituted right, and to no other right or interest, and the substituted right shall subsist for the term for which it would have subsisted if this Act had been in force at the date when the work was made, and the work had been one entitled to copyright thereunder.

• Marginal note:Where author has assigned the right

  (2) Where the author of any work in which any right that is set out in column I of Schedule I subsists on January 1, 1924 has, before that date, assigned the right or granted any interest therein for the whole term of the right, then at the date when, but for the passing of this Act, the right would have expired, the substituted right conferred by this section shall, in the absence of express agreement, pass to the author of the work, and any interest therein created before January 1, 1924 and then subsisting shall determine, but the person who immediately before the date at which the right would have expired was the owner of the right or interest is entitled at his option either

  • (a) on giving such notice as is hereinafter mentioned, to an assignment of the right or the grant of a similar interest therein for the remainder of the term of the right for such consideration as, failing agreement, may be determined by arbitration, or

  • (b) without any assignment or grant, to continue to reproduce or perform the work in like manner as theretofore subject to the payment, if demanded by the author within three years after the date at which the right would have expired, of such royalties to the author as, failing agreement, may be determined by arbitration, or, where the work is incorporated in a collective work and the owner of the right or interest is the proprietor of that collective work, without any payment,

  and the notice referred to in paragraph (a) must be given not more than one year or less than six months before the date at which the right would have expired, and must be sent by registered post to the author, or, if he cannot with reasonable diligence be found, advertised in the Canada Gazette.

• Marginal note:Definition of author

  (3) For the purposes of this section, author includes the legal representatives of a deceased author.

• Marginal note:Works made before this Act in force

  (4) Subject to this Act, copyright shall not subsist in any work made before January 1, 1924 otherwise than under and in accordance with the provisions of this section.

Clerical Errors

Marginal note:Clerical errors do not invalidate

61 Clerical errors in any instrument of record in the Copyright Office do not invalidate the instrument, but they may be corrected under the authority of the Registrar of Copyrights.

Regulations

Marginal note:Regulations

• 62 (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations

  • (a) prescribing anything that by this Act is to be prescribed by regulation; and

  • (b) generally for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act.

• Marginal note:Rights saved

  (2) The Governor in Council may make orders for altering, revoking or varying any order in council made under this Act, but any order made under this section does not affect prejudicially any rights or interests acquired or accrued at the date when the order comes into operation, and shall provide for the protection of those rights and interests.

Industrial Designs and Topographies

63 [Repealed, 1997, c. 24, s. 38]

Marginal note:Interpretation

• 64 (1) In this section and section 64.1,

  article

  article means any thing that is made by hand, tool or machine; (objet)

  design

  design means features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament and any combination of those features that, in a finished article, appeal to and are judged solely by the eye; (dessin)

  useful article

  useful article means an article that has a utilitarian function and includes a model of any such article; (objet utilitaire)

  utilitarian function

  utilitarian function, in respect of an article, means a function other than merely serving as a substrate or carrier for artistic or literary matter. (fonction utilitaire)

• Marginal note:Non-infringement re certain designs

  (2) Where copyright subsists in a design applied to a useful article or in an artistic work from which the design is derived and, by or under the authority of any person who owns the copyright in Canada or who owns the copyright elsewhere,

  • (a) the article is reproduced in a quantity of more than fifty, or

  • (b) where the article is a plate, engraving or cast, the article is used for producing more than fifty useful articles,

  it shall not thereafter be an infringement of the copyright or the moral rights for anyone

  • (c) to reproduce the design of the article or a design not differing substantially from the design of the article by

    • (i) making the article, or

    • (ii) making a drawing or other reproduction in any material form of the article, or

  • (d) to do with an article, drawing or reproduction that is made as described in paragraph (c) anything that the owner of the copyright has the sole right to do with the design or artistic work in which the copyright subsists.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (3) Subsection (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) a graphic or photographic representation that is applied to the face of an article;

  • (b) a trade-mark or a representation thereof or a label;

  • (c) material that has a woven or knitted pattern or that is suitable for piece goods or surface coverings or for making wearing apparel;

  • (d) an architectural work that is a building or a model of a building;

  • (e) a representation of a real or fictitious being, event or place that is applied to an article as a feature of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament;

  • (f) articles that are sold as a set, unless more than fifty sets are made; or

  • (g) such other work or article as may be prescribed by regulation.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (4) Subsections (2) and (3) apply only in respect of designs created after the coming into force of this subsection, and section 64 of this Act and the Industrial Design Act, as they read immediately before the coming into force of this subsection, as well as the rules made under them, continue to apply in respect of designs created before that coming into force.

Marginal note:Non-infringement re useful article features

• 64.1 (1) The following acts do not constitute an infringement of the copyright or moral rights in a work:

  • (a) applying to a useful article features that are dictated solely by a utilitarian function of the article;

  • (b) by reference solely to a useful article, making a drawing or other reproduction in any material form of any features of the article that are dictated solely by a utilitarian function of the article;

  • (c) doing with a useful article having only features described in paragraph (a), or with a drawing or reproduction made as described in paragraph (b), anything that the owner of the copyright has the sole right to do with the work; and

  • (d) using any method or principle of manufacture or construction.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) Nothing in subsection (1) affects

  • (a) the copyright, or

  • (b) the moral rights, if any,

  in any sound recording, cinematograph film or other contrivance by means of which a work may be mechanically reproduced or performed.

Marginal note:Application of Act to topographies

• 64.2 (1) This Act does not apply, and shall be deemed never to have applied, to any topography or to any design, however expressed, that is intended to generate all or part of a topography.

• Marginal note:Computer programs

  (2) For greater certainty, the incorporation of a computer program into an integrated circuit product or the incorporation of a work into such a computer program may constitute an infringement of the copyright or moral rights in a work.

• Marginal note:Definitions

  (3) In this section, “topography” and “integrated circuit product” have the same meaning as in the Integrated Circuit Topography Act.

65 [Repealed, 1993, c. 44, s. 69]

PART VIICopyright Board and Collective Administration of Copyright

Copyright Board

Marginal note:Establishment

• 66 (1) There is hereby established a Board, to be known as the Copyright Board, consisting of not more than five members, including a chairman and a vice-chairman, to be appointed by the Governor in Council.

• Marginal note:Service

  (2) The members of the Board shall be appointed to serve either full-time or part-time.

• Marginal note:Chairman

  (3) The chairman must be a judge, either sitting or retired, of a superior, county or district court.

• Marginal note:Tenure

  (4) Each member of the Board shall hold office during good behaviour for a term not exceeding five years, but may be removed at any time by the Governor in Council for cause.

• Marginal note:Re-appointment

  (5) A member of the Board is eligible to be re-appointed once only.

• Marginal note:Prohibition

  (6) A member of the Board shall not be employed in the Public Service within the meaning of the Public Service Staff Relations Act during the member’s term of office.

• Marginal note:Members deemed public service employees

  (7) A full-time member of the Board, other than the chairman, shall be deemed to be employed in

  • (a) the Public Service for the purposes of the Public Service Superannuation Act; and

  • (b) the public service of Canada for the purposes of any regulations made pursuant to section 9 of the Aeronautics Act.

Marginal note:Duties of chairman

• 66.1 (1) The chairman shall direct the work of the Board and apportion its work among the members of the Board.

• Marginal note:Absence or incapacity of chairman

  (2) If the chairman is absent or incapacitated or if the office of chairman is vacant, the vice-chairman has all the powers and functions of the chairman during the absence, incapacity or vacancy.

• Marginal note:Duties of vice-chairman

  (3) The vice-chairman is the chief executive officer of the Board and has supervision over and direction of the Board and its staff.

Marginal note:Remuneration and expenses

66.2 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 reasonable travel and living expenses incurred by them in the course of their duties under this Act while absent from their ordinary place of residence.

Marginal note:Conflict of interest prohibited

• 66.3 (1) A member of the Board shall not, directly or indirectly, engage in any activity, have any interest in a business or accept or engage in any office or employment that is inconsistent with the member’s duties.

• Marginal note:Termination of conflict of interest

  (2) Where a member of the Board becomes aware that he is in a conflict of interest contrary to subsection (1), the member shall, within one hundred and twenty days, terminate the conflict or resign.

Marginal note:Staff

• 66.4 (1) 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 Employment Act.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (2) The officers and employees referred to in subsection (1) shall be deemed to be employed in the Public Service for the purposes of the Public Service Superannuation Act.

• Marginal note:Technical assistance

  (3) The Board may engage on a temporary basis the services of persons having technical or specialized knowledge to advise and assist in the performance of its duties and the Board may, in accordance with Treasury Board directives, fix and pay the remuneration and expenses of those persons.

Marginal note:Concluding matters after membership expires

• 66.5 (1) A member of the Board whose term expires may conclude the matters that the member has begun to consider.

• Marginal note:Decisions

  (2) Matters before the Board shall be decided by a majority of the members of the Board and the presiding member shall have a second vote in the case of a tie.

Marginal note:Interim decisions

66.51 The Board may, on application, make an interim decision.

Marginal note:Variation of decisions

66.52 A decision of the Board respecting royalties or their related terms and conditions that is made under subsection 68(3), sections 68.1 or 70.15 or or subsections 70.2(2), 70.6(1), 73(1) or 83(8) may, on application, be varied by the Board if, in its opinion, there has been a material change in circumstances since the decision was made.

Marginal note:Regulations

• 66.6 (1) The Board may, with the approval of the Governor in Council, make regulations governing

  • (a) the practice and procedure in respect of the Board’s hearings, including the number of members of the Board that constitutes a quorum;

  • (b) the time and manner in which applications and notices must be made or given;

  • (c) the establishment of forms for the making or giving of applications and notices; and

  • (d) the carrying out of the work of the Board, the management of its internal affairs and the duties of its officers and employees.

• Marginal note:Publication of proposed regulations

  (2) A copy of each regulation that the Board proposes to make under subsection (1) shall be published in the Canada Gazette at least sixty days before the proposed effective date thereof and a reasonable opportunity shall be given to interested persons to make representations with respect thereto.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (3) No proposed regulation that has been published pursuant to subsection (2) need again be published under that subsection, whether or not it has been altered as a result of representations made with respect thereto.

Marginal note:General powers, etc.

• 66.7 (1) The Board has, with respect to the attendance, swearing and examination of witnesses, the production and inspection of documents, the enforcement of its decisions and other matters necessary or proper for the due exercise of its jurisdiction, all such powers, rights and privileges as are vested in a superior court of record.

• Marginal note:Enforcement of decisions

  (2) Any decision of the Board may, for the purposes of its enforcement, be made an order of the Federal Court or of any superior court and is enforceable in the same manner as an order thereof.

• Marginal note:Procedure

  (3) To make a decision of the Board an order of a court, the usual practice and procedure of the court in such matters may be followed or a certified copy of the decision may be filed with the registrar of the court and thereupon the decision becomes an order of the court.

• Marginal note:Effect of variation of decision

  (4) Where a decision of the Board that has been made an order of a court is varied by a subsequent decision of the Board, the order of the court shall be deemed to have been varied accordingly and the subsequent decision may, in the same manner, be made an order of the court.

Marginal note:Distribution, publication of notices

66.71 Independently of any other provision of this Act relating to the distribution or publication of information or documents by the Board, the Board may at any time cause to be distributed or published, in any manner and on any terms and conditions that it sees fit, any notice that it sees fit to be distributed or published.

Marginal note:Studies

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

Marginal note:Report

• 66.9 (1) 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 activities for the preceding year describing briefly the applications made to the Board, the Board’s decisions and any other matter that the Board considers relevant.

• Marginal note:Tabling

  (2) The Minister shall cause a copy of each annual report to be laid before each House of Parliament on any of the first fifteen days on which that House is sitting after the Minister receives the report.

Marginal note:Regulations

66.91 The Governor in Council may make regulations issuing policy directions to the Board and establishing general criteria to be applied by the Board or to which the Board must have regard

• (a) in establishing fair and equitable royalties to be paid pursuant to this Act; and

• (b) in rendering its decisions in any matter within its jurisdiction.

Collective Administration of Performing Rights and of Communication Rights

Marginal note:Public access to repertoires

67 Each collective society that carries on

• (a) the business of granting licences or collecting royalties for the performance in public of musical works, dramatico-musical works, performer’s performances of such works, or sound recordings embodying such works, or

• (b) the business of granting licences or collecting royalties for the communication to the public by telecommunication of musical works, dramatico-musical works, performer’s performances of such works, or sound recordings embodying such works, other than the communication of musical works or dramatico-musical works in a manner described in subsection 31(2),

must answer within a reasonable time all reasonable requests from the public for information about its repertoire of works, performer’s performances or sound recordings, that are in current use.

Marginal note:Filing of proposed tariffs

• 67.1 (1) Each collective society referred to in section 67 shall, on or before the March 31 immediately before the date when its last tariff approved pursuant to subsection 68(3) expires, file with the Board a proposed tariff, in both official languages, of all royalties to be collected by the collective society.

• Marginal note:Where no previous tariff

  (2) A collective society referred to in subsection (1) in respect of which no tariff has been approved pursuant to subsection 68(3) shall file with the Board its proposed tariff, in both official languages, of all royalties to be collected by it, on or before the March 31 immediately before its proposed effective date.

• Marginal note:Effective period of tariffs

  (3) A proposed tariff must provide that the royalties are to be effective for periods of one or more calendar years.

• Marginal note:Prohibition of enforcement

  (4) Where a proposed tariff is not filed with respect to the work, performer’s performance or sound recording in question, no action may be commenced, without the written consent of the Minister, for

  • (a) the infringement of the rights, referred to in section 3, to perform a work in public or to communicate it to the public by telecommunication; or

  • (b) the recovery of royalties referred to in section 19.

• Marginal note:Publication of proposed tariffs

  (5) As soon as practicable after the receipt of a proposed tariff filed pursuant to subsection (1), the Board shall publish it in the Canada Gazette and shall give notice that, within sixty days after the publication of the tariff, prospective users or their representatives may file written objections to the tariff with the Board.

67.2 and 67.3 [Repealed, 1997, c. 24, s. 45]

Marginal note:Board to consider proposed tariffs and objections

• 68 (1) The Board shall, as soon as practicable, consider a proposed tariff and any objections thereto referred to in subsection 67.1(5) or raised by the Board, and

  • (a) send to the collective society concerned a copy of the objections so as to permit it to reply; and

  • (b) send to the persons who filed the objections a copy of any reply thereto.

• Marginal note:Criteria and factors

  (2) In examining a proposed tariff for the performance in public or the communication to the public by telecommunication of performer’s performances of musical works, or of sound recordings embodying such performer’s performances, the Board

  • (a) shall ensure that

    • (i) the tariff applies in respect of performer’s performances and sound recordings only in the situations referred to in subsections 20(1) and (2),

    • (ii) the tariff does not, because of linguistic and content requirements of Canada’s broadcasting policy set out in section 3 of the Broadcasting Act, place some users that are subject to that Act at a greater financial disadvantage than others, and

    • (iii) the payment of royalties by users pursuant to section 19 will be made in a single payment; and

  • (b) may take into account any factor that it considers appropriate.

• Marginal note:Certification

  (3) The Board shall certify the tariffs as approved, with such alterations to the royalties and to the terms and conditions related thereto as the Board considers necessary, having regard to

  • (a) any objections to the tariffs under subsection 67.1(5); and

  • (b) the matters referred to in subsection (2).

• Marginal note:Publication of approved tariffs

  (4) The Board shall

  • (a) publish the approved tariffs in the Canada Gazette as soon as practicable; and

  • (b) send a copy of each approved tariff, together with the reasons for the Board’s decision, to each collective society that filed a proposed tariff and to any person who filed an objection.

Marginal note:Special and transitional royalty rates

• 68.1 (1) Notwithstanding the tariffs approved by the Board under subsection 68(3) for the performance in public or the communication to the public by telecommunication of performer’s performances of musical works, or of sound recordings embodying such performer’s performances,

  • (a) wireless transmission systems, except community systems and public transmission systems, shall pay royalties as follows:

    • (i) in respect of each year, $100 on the first 1.25 million dollars of annual advertising revenues, and

    • (ii) on any portion of annual advertising revenues exceeding 1.25 million dollars,

      • (A) for the first year following the coming into force of this section, thirty-three and one third per cent of the royalties set out in the approved tariff for that year,

      • (B) for the second year following the coming into force of this section, sixty-six and two thirds per cent of the royalties set out in the approved tariff for that year, and

      • (C) for the third year following the coming into force of this section, one hundred per cent of the royalties set out in the approved tariff for that year;

  • (b) community systems shall pay royalties of $100 in respect of each year; and

  • (c) public transmission systems shall pay royalties, in respect of each of the first three years following the coming into force of this section, as follows:

    • (i) for the first year following the coming into force of this section, thirty-three and one third per cent of the royalties set out in the approved tariff for that year,

    • (ii) for the second year following the coming into force of this section, sixty-six and two thirds per cent of the royalties set out in the approved tariff for that year, and

    • (iii) for the third year following the coming into force of this section, one hundred per cent of the royalties set out in the approved tariff for that year.

• Marginal note:Effect of paying royalties

  (2) The payment of the royalties set out in subsection (1) fully discharges all liabilities of the system in question in respect of the approved tariffs.

• Marginal note:Definition of advertising revenues

  (3) The Board may, by regulation, define advertising revenues for the purposes of subsection (1).

• Marginal note:Preferential royalty rates

  (4) The Board shall, in certifying a tariff as approved under subsection 68(3), ensure that there is a preferential royalty rate for small cable transmission systems.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (5) The Governor in Council may make regulations defining “small cable transmission system”, “community system”, “public transmission system” and “wireless transmission system” for the purposes of this section.

Marginal note:Effect of fixing royalties

• 68.2 (1) Without prejudice to any other remedies available to it, a collective society may, for the period specified in its approved tariff, collect the royalties specified in the tariff and, in default of their payment, recover them in a court of competent jurisdiction.

• Marginal note:Proceedings barred if royalties tendered or paid

  (2) No proceedings may be brought for

  • (a) the infringement of the right to perform in public or the right to communicate to the public by telecommunication, referred to in section 3, or

  • (b) the recovery of royalties referred to in section 19

  against a person who has paid or offered to pay the royalties specified in an approved tariff.

• Marginal note:Continuation of rights

  (3) Where a collective society files a proposed tariff in accordance with subsection 67.1(1),

  • (a) any person entitled to perform in public or communicate to the public by telecommunication those works, performer’s performances or sound recordings pursuant to the previous tariff may do so, even though the royalties set out therein have ceased to be in effect, and

  • (b) the collective society may collect the royalties in accordance with the previous tariff,

  until the proposed tariff is approved.

Public Performances in Places Other Than Theatres

• 69 (1) [Repealed, R.S., 1985, c. 10 (4th Supp.), s. 14]

• Marginal note:Radio performances in places other than theatres

  (2) In respect of public performances by means of any radio receiving set in any place other than a theatre that is ordinarily and regularly used for entertainments to which an admission charge is made, no royalties shall be collectable from the owner or user of the radio receiving set, but the Board shall, in so far as possible, provide for the collection in advance from radio broadcasting stations of royalties appropriate to the conditions produced by the provisions of this subsection and shall fix the amount of the same.

• Marginal note:Expenses to be taken into account

  (3) In fixing royalties pursuant to subsection (2), the Board shall take into account all expenses of collection and other outlays, if any, saved or savable by, for or on behalf of the owner of the copyright or performing right concerned or his agents, in consequence of subsection (2).

• (4) [Repealed, R.S., 1985, c. 10 (4th Supp.), s. 14]

70 [Repealed, R.S., 1985, c. 10 (4th Supp.), s. 15]

Collective Administration in Relation to Rights under Sections 3, 15, 18 and 21

Collective Societies

Marginal note:Collective societies

70.1 Sections 70.11 to 70.6 apply in respect of a collective society that operates

• (a) a licensing scheme, applicable in relation to a repertoire of works of more than one author, pursuant to which the society sets out the classes of uses for which and the royalties and terms and conditions on which it agrees to authorize the doing of an act mentioned in section 3 in respect of those works;

• (a.1) a licensing scheme, applicable in relation to a repertoire of performer’s performances of more than one performer, pursuant to which the society sets out the classes of uses for which and the royalties and terms and conditions on which it agrees to authorize the doing of an act mentioned in section 15 in respect of those performer’s performances;

• (b) a licensing scheme, applicable in relation to a repertoire of sound recordings of more than one maker, pursuant to which the society sets out the classes of uses for which and the royalties and terms and conditions on which it agrees to authorize the doing of an act mentioned in section 18 in respect of those sound recordings; or

• (c) a licensing scheme, applicable in relation to a repertoire of communication signals of more than one broadcaster, pursuant to which the society sets out the classes of uses for which and the royalties and terms and conditions on which it agrees to authorize the doing of an act mentioned in section 21 in respect of those communication signals.

Marginal note:Public information

70.11 A collective society referred to in section 70.1 must answer within a reasonable time all reasonable requests from the public for information about its repertoire of works, performer’s performances, sound recordings or communication signals.

Marginal note:Tariff or agreement

70.12 A collective society may, for the purpose of setting out by licence the royalties and terms and conditions relating to classes of uses,

• (a) file a proposed tariff with the Board; or

• (b) enter into agreements with users.

Tariffs

Marginal note:Filing of proposed tariffs

• 70.13 (1) Each collective society referred to in section 70.1 may, on or before the March 31 immediately before the date when its last tariff approved pursuant to subsection 70.15(1) expires, file with the Board a proposed tariff, in both official languages, of royalties to be collected by the collective society for issuing licences.

• Marginal note:Where no previous tariff

  (2) A collective society referred to in subsection (1) in respect of which no tariff has been approved pursuant to subsection 70.15(1) shall file with the Board its proposed tariff, in both official languages, of all royalties to be collected by it for issuing licences, on or before the March 31 immediately before its proposed effective date.

Marginal note:Application of certain provisions

70.14 Where a proposed tariff is filed under section 70.13, subsections 67.1(3) and (5) and subsection 68(1) apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require.

Marginal note:Certification

• 70.15 (1) The Board shall certify the tariffs as approved, with such alterations to the royalties and to the terms and conditions related thereto as the Board considers necessary, having regard to any objections to the tariffs.

• Marginal note:Application of certain provisions

  (2) Where a tariff is approved under subsection (1), subsections 68(4) and 68.2(1) apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require.

Marginal note:Distribution, publication of notices

70.16 Independently of any other provision of this Act relating to the distribution or publication of information or documents by the Board, the Board shall notify persons affected by a proposed tariff, by

• (a) distributing or publishing a notice, or

• (b) directing another person or body to distribute or publish a notice,

in such manner and on such terms and conditions as the Board sees fit.

Marginal note:Prohibition of enforcement

70.17 Subject to section 70.19, no proceedings may be brought for the infringement of a right referred to in section 3, 15, 18 or 21 against a person who has paid or offered to pay the royalties specified in an approved tariff.

Marginal note:Continuation of rights

70.18 Subject to section 70.19, where a collective society files a proposed tariff in accordance with section 70.13,

• (a) any person authorized by the collective society to do an act referred to in section 3, 15, 18 or 21, as the case may be, pursuant to the previous tariff may do so, even though the royalties set out therein have ceased to be in effect, and

• (b) the collective society may collect the royalties in accordance with the previous tariff,

until the proposed tariff is approved.

Marginal note:Where agreement exists

70.19 If there is an agreement mentioned in paragraph 70.12(b), sections 70.17 and 70.18 do not apply in respect of the matters covered by the agreement.

Marginal note:Agreement

70.191 An approved tariff does not apply where there is an agreement between a collective society and a person authorized to do an act mentioned in section 3, 15, 18 or 21, as the case may be, if the agreement is in effect during the period covered by the approved tariff.

Fixing of Royalties in Individual Cases

Marginal note:Application to fix amount of royalty, etc.

• 70.2 (1) Where a collective society and any person not otherwise authorized to do an act mentioned in section 3, 15, 18 or 21, as the case may be, in respect of the works, sound recordings or communication signals included in the collective society’s repertoire are unable to agree on the royalties to be paid for the right to do the act or on their related terms and conditions, either of them or a representative of either may, after giving notice to the other, apply to the Board to fix the royalties and their related terms and conditions.

• Marginal note:Fixing royalties, etc.

  (2) The Board may fix the royalties and their related terms and conditions in respect of a licence during such period of not less than one year as the Board may specify and, as soon as practicable after rendering its decision, the Board shall send a copy thereof, together with the reasons therefor, to the collective society and the person concerned or that person’s representative.

Marginal note:Agreement

• 70.3 (1) The Board shall not proceed with an application under section 70.2 where a notice is filed with the Board that an agreement touching the matters in issue has been reached.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (2) An agreement referred to in subsection (1) is effective during the year following the expiration of the previous agreement, if any, or of the last period specified under subsection 70.2(2).

Marginal note:Effect of Board decision

70.4 Where any royalties are fixed for a period pursuant to subsection 70.2(2), the person concerned may, during the period, subject to the related terms and conditions fixed by the Board and to the terms and conditions set out in the scheme and on paying or offering to pay the royalties, do the act with respect to which the royalties and their related terms and conditions are fixed and the collective society may, without prejudice to any other remedies available to it, collect the royalties or, in default of their payment, recover them in a court of competent jurisdiction.

Examination of Agreements

Marginal note:Definition of Commissioner

• 70.5 (1) For the purposes of this section and section 70.6, Commissioner means the Commissioner of Competition appointed under the Competition Act.

• Marginal note:Filing agreement with the Board

  (2) Where a collective society concludes an agreement to grant a licence authorizing a person to do an act mentioned in section 3, 15, 18 or 21, as the case may be, the collective society or the person may file a copy of the agreement with the Board within fifteen days after it is concluded.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (3) Section 45 of the Competition Act does not apply in respect of any royalties or related terms and conditions arising under an agreement filed in accordance with subsection (2).

• Marginal note:Access by Commissioner

  (4) The Commissioner may have access to the copy of an agreement filed in accordance with subsection (2).

• Marginal note:Request for examination

  (5) Where the Commissioner considers that an agreement filed in accordance with subsection (2) is contrary to the public interest, the Commissioner may, after advising the parties concerned, request the Board to examine the agreement.

Marginal note:Examination and fixing of royalty

• 70.6 (1) The Board shall, as soon as practicable, consider a request by the Commissioner to examine an agreement and the Board may, after giving the Commissioner and the parties concerned an opportunity to present their arguments, alter the royalties and any related terms and conditions arising under the agreement, in which case section 70.4 applies with such modifications as the circumstances require.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (2) As soon as practicable after rendering its decision, the Board shall send a copy thereof, together with the reasons therefor, to the parties concerned and to the Commissioner.

70.61 to 70.8 [Repealed, 1997, c. 24, s. 50]

Royalties in Particular Cases

Marginal note:Filing of proposed tariffs

• 71 (1) Each collective society that carries on the business of collecting royalties referred to in subsection 29.6(2), 29.7(2) or (3) or paragraph 31(2)(d) shall file with the Board a proposed tariff, but no other person may file any such tariff.

• Marginal note:Times for filing

  (2) A proposed tariff must be

  • (a) in both official languages; and

  • (b) filed on or before the March 31 immediately before the date that the approved tariff ceases to be effective.

• Marginal note:Where no previous tariff

  (3) A collective society in respect of which no proposed tariff has been certified pursuant to paragraph 73(1)(d) shall file its proposed tariff on or before the March 31 immediately before its proposed effective date.

• Marginal note:Effective period of tariffs

  (4) A proposed tariff must provide that the royalties are to be effective for periods of one or more calendar years.

Marginal note:Publication of proposed tariffs

• 72 (1) As soon as practicable after the receipt of a proposed tariff filed pursuant to section 71, the Board shall publish it in the Canada Gazette and shall give notice that, within sixty days after the publication of the tariff, educational institutions or prospective retransmitters within the meaning of subsection 31(1), or their representatives, may file written objections to the tariff with the Board.

• Marginal note:Board to consider proposed tariffs and objections

  (2) The Board shall, as soon as practicable, consider a proposed tariff and any objections thereto referred to in subsection (1) or raised by the Board, and

  • (a) send to the collective society concerned a copy of the objections so as to permit it to reply; and

  • (b) send to the persons who filed the objections a copy of any reply thereto.

Marginal note:Certification

• 73 (1) On the conclusion of its consideration of proposed tariffs, the Board shall

  • (a) establish

    • (i) a manner of determining the royalties to be paid by educational institutions and by retransmitters within the meaning of subsection 31(1), and

    • (ii) such terms and conditions related to those royalties as the Board considers appropriate;

  • (b) determine the portion of the royalties referred to in paragraph (a) that is to be paid to each collective society;

  • (c) vary the tariffs accordingly; and

  • (d) certify the tariffs as the approved tariffs, whereupon the tariffs become for the purposes of this Act the approved tariffs.

• Marginal note:No discrimination

  (2) For greater certainty, the Board, in establishing a manner of determining royalties under paragraph (1)(a) or in apportioning them under paragraph (1)(b), may not discriminate between owners of copyright on the ground of their nationality or residence.

• Marginal note:Publication of approved tariffs

  (3) The Board shall publish the approved tariffs in the Canada Gazette as soon as practicable and send a copy of each approved tariff, together with the reasons for the Board’s decision, to each collective society that filed a proposed tariff and to any person who filed an objection.

Marginal note:Special case

• 74 (1) The Board shall, in establishing a manner of determining royalties under paragraph 73(1)(a), ensure that there is a preferential rate for small retransmission systems.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (2) The Governor in Council may make regulations defining “small retransmission systems” for the purpose of subsection (1).

Marginal note:Effect of fixing royalties

75 Without prejudice to any other remedies available to it, a collective society may, for the period specified in its approved tariff, collect the royalties specified in the tariff and, in default of their payment, recover them in a court of competent jurisdiction.

Marginal note:Claims by non-members

• 76 (1) An owner of copyright who does not authorize a collective society to collect, for that person’s benefit, royalties referred to in paragraph 31(2)(d) is, if the work is communicated to the public by telecommunication during a period when an approved tariff that is applicable to that kind of work is effective, entitled to be paid those royalties by the collective society that is designated by the Board, of its own motion or on application, subject to the same conditions as those to which a person who has so authorized that collective society is subject.

• Marginal note:Royalties that may be recovered

  (2) An owner of copyright who does not authorize a collective society to collect, for that person’s benefit, royalties referred to in subsection 29.6(2) or 29.7(2) or (3) is, if such royalties are payable during a period when an approved tariff that is applicable to that kind of work or other subject-matter is effective, entitled to be paid those royalties by the collective society that is designated by the Board, of its own motion or on application, subject to the same conditions as those to which a person who has so authorized that collective society is subject.

• Marginal note:Exclusion of remedies

  (3) The entitlement referred to in subsections (1) and (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 recording or performance in public, as the case may be.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (4) The Board may, for the purposes of this section,

  • (a) require a collective society to file with the Board information relating to payments of royalties collected by it to the persons who have authorized it to collect those royalties; and

  • (b) by regulation, establish periods of not less than twelve months within which the entitlements referred to in subsections (1) and (2) must be exercised, in the case of royalties referred to in

    • (i) paragraph 29.6(2)(a), beginning on the expiration of the year during which no royalties are payable under that paragraph,

    • (ii) paragraph 29.6(2)(b), beginning on the performance in public,

    • (iii) subsection 29.7(2), beginning on the making of the copy,

    • (iv) subsection 29.7(3), beginning on the performance in public, or

    • (v) paragraph 31(2)(d), beginning on the communication to the public by telecommunication.

Owners Who Cannot be Located

Marginal note:Circumstances in which licence may be issued by Board

• 77 (1) Where, on application to the Board by a person who wishes to obtain a licence to use

  • (a) a published work,

  • (b) a fixation of a performer’s performance,

  • (c) a published sound recording, or

  • (d) a fixation of a communication signal

  in which copyright subsists, the Board is satisfied that the applicant has made reasonable efforts to locate the owner of the copyright and that the owner cannot be located, the Board may issue to the applicant a licence to do an act mentioned in section 3, 15, 18 or 21, as the case may be.

• Marginal note:Conditions of licence

  (2) A licence issued under subsection (1) is non-exclusive and is subject to such terms and conditions as the Board may establish.

• Marginal note:Payment to owner

  (3) The owner of a copyright may, not later than five years after the expiration of a licence issued pursuant to subsection (1) in respect of the copyright, collect the royalties fixed in the licence or, in default of their payment, commence an action to recover them in a court of competent jurisdiction.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (4) The Copyright Board may make regulations governing the issuance of licences under subsection (1).

Compensation for Acts Done Before Recognition of Copyright or Moral Rights

Marginal note:Board may determine compensation

• 78 (1) Subject to subsection (2), for the purposes of subsections 32.4(2), 32.5(2) and 33(2), the Board may, on application by any of the parties referred to in one of those provisions, determine the amount of the compensation referred to in that provision that the Board considers reasonable, having regard to all the circumstances, including any judgment of a court in an action between the parties for the enforcement of a right mentioned in subsection 32.4(3) or 32.5(3).

• Marginal note:Limitation

  (2) The Board shall not

  • (a) proceed with an application under subsection (1) where a notice is filed with the Board that an agreement regarding the matters in issue has been reached; or

  • (b) where a court action between the parties for enforcement of a right referred to in subsection 32.4(3) or 32.5(3), as the case may be, has been commenced, continue with an application under subsection (1) until the court action is finally concluded.

• Marginal note:Interim orders

  (3) Where the Board proceeds with an application under subsection (1), it may, for the purpose of avoiding serious prejudice to any party, make an interim order requiring a party to refrain from doing any act described in the order until the determination of compensation is made under subsection (1).

PART VIIIPrivate Copying

Interpretation

Marginal note:Definitions

79 In this Part,

audio recording medium

audio recording medium means a recording medium, regardless of its material form, onto which a sound recording may be reproduced and that is of a kind ordinarily used by individual consumers for that purpose, excluding any prescribed kind of recording medium; (support audio)

blank audio recording medium

blank audio recording medium means

• (a) an audio recording medium onto which no sounds have ever been fixed, and

• (b) any other prescribed audio recording medium; (support audio vierge)

collecting body

collecting body means the collective society, or other society, association or corporation, that is designated as the collecting body under subsection 83(8); (organisme de perception)

eligible author

eligible author means an author of a musical work, whether created before or after the coming into force of this Part, that is embodied in a sound recording, whether made before or after the coming into force of this Part, if copyright subsists in Canada in that musical work; (auteur admissible)

eligible maker

eligible maker means a maker of a sound recording that embodies a musical work, whether the first fixation of the sound recording occurred before or after the coming into force of this Part, if

• (a) both the following two conditions are met:

  • (i) the maker, at the date of that first fixation, if a corporation, had its headquarters in Canada or, if a natural person, was a Canadian citizen or permanent resident within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, and

  • (ii) copyright subsists in Canada in the sound recording, or

• (b) the maker, at the date of that first fixation, if a corporation, had its headquarters in a country referred to in a statement published under section 85 or, if a natural person, was a citizen, subject or permanent resident of such a country; (producteur admissible)

eligible performer

eligible performer means the performer of a performer’s performance of a musical work, whether it took place before or after the coming into force of this Part, if the performer’s performance is embodied in a sound recording and

• (a) both the following two conditions are met:

  • (i) the performer was, at the date of the first fixation of the sound recording, a Canadian citizen or permanent resident within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, and

  • (ii) copyright subsists in Canada in the performer’s performance, or

• (b) the performer was, at the date of the first fixation of the sound recording, a citizen, subject or permanent resident of a country referred to in a statement published under section 85; (artiste-interprète admissible)

prescribed

prescribed means prescribed by regulations made under this Part. (Version anglaise seulement)

Copying for Private Use

Marginal note:Where no infringement of copyright

• 80 (1) Subject to subsection (2), the act of reproducing all or any substantial part of

  • (a) a musical work embodied in a sound recording,

  • (b) a performer’s performance of a musical work embodied in a sound recording, or

  • (c) a sound recording in which a musical work, or a performer’s performance of a musical work, is embodied

  onto an audio recording medium for the private use of the person who makes the copy does not constitute an infringement of the copyright in the musical work, the performer’s performance or the sound recording.

• Marginal note:Limitation

  (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the act described in that subsection is done for the purpose of doing any of the following in relation to any of the things referred to in paragraphs (1)(a) to (c):

  • (a) selling or renting out, or by way of trade exposing or offering for sale or rental;

  • (b) distributing, whether or not for the purpose of trade;

  • (c) communicating to the public by telecommunication; or

  • (d) performing, or causing to be performed, in public.

Right of Remuneration

Marginal note:Right of remuneration

• 81 (1) Subject to and in accordance with this Part, eligible authors, eligible performers and eligible makers have a right to receive remuneration from manufacturers and importers of blank audio recording media in respect of the reproduction for private use of

  • (a) a musical work embodied in a sound recording;

  • (b) a performer’s performance of a musical work embodied in a sound recording; or

  • (c) a sound recording in which a musical work, or a performer’s performance of a musical work, is embodied.

• Marginal note:Assignment of rights

  (2) Subsections 13(4) to (7) apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require, in respect of the rights conferred by subsection (1) on eligible authors, performers and makers.

Levy on Blank Audio Recording Media

Marginal note:Liability to pay levy

• 82 (1) Every person who, for the purpose of trade, manufactures a blank audio recording medium in Canada or imports a blank audio recording medium into Canada

  • (a) is liable, subject to subsection (2) and section 86, to pay a levy to the collecting body on selling or otherwise disposing of those blank audio recording media in Canada; and

  • (b) shall, in accordance with subsection 83(8), keep statements of account of the activities referred to in paragraph (a), as well as of exports of those blank audio recording media, and shall furnish those statements to the collecting body.

• Marginal note:No levy for exports

  (2) No levy is payable where it is a term of the sale or other disposition of the blank audio recording medium that the medium is to be exported from Canada, and it is exported from Canada.

Marginal note:Filing of proposed tariffs

• 83 (1) Subject to subsection (14), each collective society may file with the Board a proposed tariff for the benefit of those eligible authors, eligible performers and eligible makers who, by assignment, grant of licence, appointment of the society as their agent or otherwise, authorize it to act on their behalf for that purpose, but no person other than a collective society may file any such tariff.

• Marginal note:Collecting body

  (2) Without limiting the generality of what may be included in a proposed tariff, the tariff may include a suggestion as to whom the Board should designate under paragraph (8)(d) as the collecting body.

• Marginal note:Times for filing

  (3) Proposed tariffs must be in both official languages and must be filed on or before the March 31 immediately before the date when the approved tariffs cease to be effective.

• Marginal note:Where no previous tariff

  (4) A collective society in respect of which no proposed tariff has been certified pursuant to paragraph (8)(c) shall file its proposed tariff on or before the March 31 immediately before its proposed effective date.

• Marginal note:Effective period of levies

  (5) A proposed tariff must provide that the levies are to be effective for periods of one or more calendar years.

• Marginal note:Publication of proposed tariffs

  (6) As soon as practicable after the receipt of a proposed tariff filed pursuant to subsection (1), the Board shall publish it in the Canada Gazette and shall give notice that, within sixty days after the publication of the tariff, any person may file written objections to the tariff with the Board.

• Marginal note:Board to consider proposed tariffs and objections

  (7) The Board shall, as soon as practicable, consider a proposed tariff and any objections thereto referred to in subsection (6) or raised by the Board, and

  • (a) send to the collective society concerned a copy of the objections so as to permit it to reply; and

  • (b) send to the persons who filed the objections a copy of any reply thereto.

• Marginal note:Duties of Board

  (8) On the conclusion of its consideration of the proposed tariff, the Board shall

  • (a) establish, in accordance with subsection (9),

    • (i) the manner of determining the levies, and

    • (ii) such terms and conditions related to those levies as the Board considers appropriate, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the form, content and frequency of the statements of account mentioned in subsection 82(1), measures for the protection of confidential information contained in those statements, and the times at which the levies are payable,

  • (b) vary the tariff accordingly,

  • (c) certify the tariff as the approved tariff, whereupon that tariff becomes for the purposes of this Part the approved tariff, and

  • (d) designate as the collecting body the collective society or other society, association or corporation that, in the Board’s opinion, will best fulfil the objects of sections 82, 84 and 86,

  but the Board is not obligated to exercise its power under paragraph (d) if it has previously done so, and a designation under that paragraph remains in effect until the Board makes another designation, which it may do at any time whatsoever, on application.

• Marginal note:Factors Board to consider

  (9) In exercising its power under paragraph (8)(a), the Board shall satisfy itself that the levies are fair and equitable, having regard to any prescribed criteria.

• Marginal note:Publication of approved tariffs

  (10) The Board shall publish the approved tariffs in the Canada Gazette as soon as practicable and shall send a copy of each approved tariff, together with the reasons for the Board’s decision, to the collecting body, to each collective society that filed a proposed tariff, and to any person who filed an objection.

• Marginal note:Authors, etc., not represented by collective society

  (11) An eligible author, eligible performer or eligible maker who does not authorize a collective society to file a proposed tariff under subsection (1) is entitled, in relation to

  • (a) a musical work,

  • (b) a performer’s performance of a musical work, or

  • (c) a sound recording in which a musical work, or a performer’s performance of a musical work, is embodied,

  as the case may be, to be paid by the collective society that is designated by the Board, of the Board’s own motion or on application, the remuneration referred to in section 81 if such remuneration is payable during a period when an approved tariff that is applicable to that kind of work, performer’s performance or sound recording is effective, subject to the same conditions as those to which a person who has so authorized that collective society is subject.

• Marginal note:Exclusion of other remedies

  (12) The entitlement referred to in subsection (11) is the only remedy of the eligible author, eligible performer or eligible maker referred to in that subsection in respect of the reproducing of sound recordings for private use.

• Marginal note:Powers of Board

  (13) The Board may, for the purposes of subsections (11) and (12),

  • (a) require a collective society to file with the Board information relating to payments of moneys received by the society pursuant to section 84 to the persons who have authorized it to file a tariff under subsection (1); and

  • (b) by regulation, establish the periods, which shall not be less than twelve months, beginning when the applicable approved tariff ceases to be effective, within which the entitlement referred to in subsection (11) must be exercised.

• Marginal note:Single proposed tariff

  (14) Where all the collective societies that intend to file a proposed tariff authorize a particular person or body to file a single proposed tariff on their behalf, that person or body may do so, and in that case this section applies, with such modifications as the circumstances require, in respect of that proposed tariff.

Distribution of Levies Paid

Marginal note:Distribution by collecting body

84 As soon as practicable after receiving the levies paid to it, the collecting body shall distribute the levies to the collective societies representing eligible authors, eligible performers and eligible makers, in the proportions fixed by the Board.

Marginal note:Reciprocity

• 85 (1) 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 Canadian citizens or permanent residents within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act or, if corporations, have their headquarters in Canada, as the case may be, whether by treaty, convention, agreement or law, benefits substantially equivalent to those conferred by this Part, the Minister may, by a statement published in the Canada Gazette,

  • (a) grant the benefits conferred by this Part to performers or makers of sound recordings that are citizens, subjects or permanent residents of or, if corporations, have their headquarters in that country; and

  • (b) declare that that country shall, as regards those benefits, be treated as if it were a country to which this Part extends.

• Marginal note:Reciprocity

  (2) Where the Minister is of the opinion that another country neither grants nor has undertaken to grant to performers or makers of sound recordings that are Canadian citizens or permanent residents within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act or, if corporations, have their headquarters in Canada, as the case may be, whether by treaty, convention, agreement or law, benefits substantially equivalent to those conferred by this Part, the Minister may, by a statement published in the Canada Gazette,

  • (a) grant the benefits conferred by this Part to performers or makers of sound recordings that are citizens, subjects or permanent residents of or, if corporations, have their headquarters in that country, as the case may be, to the extent that that country grants those benefits to performers or makers of sound recordings that are Canadian citizens or permanent residents within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act or, if corporations, have their headquarters in Canada; and

  • (b) declare that that country shall, as regards those benefits, be treated as if it were a country to which this Part extends.

• Marginal note:Application of Act

  (3) Any provision of this Act that the Minister specifies in a statement referred to in subsection (1) or (2)

  • (a) applies in respect of performers or makers of sound recordings covered by that statement, as if they were citizens of or, if corporations, had their headquarters in Canada; and

  • (b) applies in respect of a country covered by that statement, as if that country were Canada.

• Marginal note:Application of Act

  (4) Subject to any exceptions that the Minister may specify in a statement referred to in subsection (1) or (2), the other provisions of this Act also apply in the way described in subsection (3).

Exemption from Levy

Marginal note:Where no levy payable

• 86 (1) No levy is payable under this Part where the manufacturer or importer of a blank audio recording medium sells or otherwise disposes of it to a society, association or corporation that represents persons with a perceptual disability.

• Marginal note:Refunds

  (2) Where a society, association or corporation referred to in subsection (1)

  • (a) purchases a blank audio recording medium in Canada from a person other than the manufacturer or importer, and

  • (b) provides the collecting body with proof of that purchase, on or before June 30 in the calendar year following the calendar year in which the purchase was made,

  the collecting body is liable to pay forthwith to the society, association or corporation an amount equal to the amount of the levy paid in respect of the blank audio recording medium purchased.

• Marginal note:If registration system exists

  (3) If regulations made under paragraph 87(a) provide for the registration of societies, associations or corporations that represent persons with a perceptual disability, subsections (1) and (2) shall be read as referring to societies, associations or corporations that are so registered.

Regulations

Marginal note:Regulations

87 The Governor in Council may make regulations

• (a) respecting the exemptions and refunds provided for in section 86, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing,

  • (i) regulations respecting procedures governing those exemptions and refunds,

  • (ii) regulations respecting applications for those exemptions and refunds, and

  • (iii) regulations for the registration of societies, associations or corporations that represent persons with a perceptual disability;

• (b) prescribing anything that by this Part is to be prescribed; and

• (c) generally for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Part.

Civil Remedies

Marginal note:Right of recovery

• 88 (1) Without prejudice to any other remedies available to it, the collecting body may, for the period specified in an approved tariff, collect the levies due to it under the tariff and, in default of their payment, recover them in a court of competent jurisdiction.

• Marginal note:Failure to pay royalties

  (2) The court may order a person who fails to pay any levy due under this Part to pay an amount not exceeding five times the amount of the levy to the collecting body. The collecting body must distribute the payment in the manner set out in section 84.

• Marginal note:Order directing compliance

  (3) Where any obligation imposed by this Part is not complied with, the collecting body may, in addition to any other remedy available, apply to a court of competent jurisdiction for an order directing compliance with that obligation.

• Marginal note:Factors to consider

  (4) Before making an order under subsection (2), the court must take into account

  • (a) whether the person who failed to pay the levy acted in good faith or bad faith;

  • (b) the conduct of the parties before and during the proceedings; and

  • (c) the need to deter persons from failing to pay levies.

PART IXGeneral Provisions

Marginal note:No copyright, etc., except by statute

89 No person is entitled to copyright otherwise than under and in accordance with this Act or any other Act of Parliament, but nothing in this section shall be construed as abrogating any right or jurisdiction in respect of a breach of trust or confidence.

Marginal note:Interpretation

90 No provision of this Act relating to

• (a) copyright in performer’s performances, sound recordings or communication signals, or

• (b) the right of performers or makers to remuneration

shall be construed as prejudicing any rights conferred by Part I or, in and of itself, as prejudicing the amount of royalties that the Board may fix in respect of those rights.

Marginal note:Adherence to Berne and Rome Conventions

91 The Governor in Council shall take such measures as are necessary to secure the adherence of Canada to

• (a) the Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works concluded at Berne on September 9, 1886, as revised by the Paris Act of 1971; and

• (b) the International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations, done at Rome on October 26, 1961.

Marginal note:Review of Act

• 92 (1) Within five years after the coming into force of this section, the Minister shall cause to be laid before both Houses of Parliament a report on the provisions and operation of this Act, including any recommendations for amendments to this Act.

• Marginal note:Reference to parliamentary committee

  (2) The report stands referred to the committee of the House of Commons, or of both Houses of Parliament, that is designated or established for that purpose, which shall

  • (a) as soon as possible thereafter, review the report and undertake a comprehensive review of the provisions and operation of this Act; and

  • (b) report to the House of Commons, or to both Houses of Parliament, within one year after the laying of the report of the Minister or any further time that the House of Commons, or both Houses of Parliament, may authorize.