What Canada Copyright Act 1985 requires
The Copyright Act (R.S.C. 1985, c. C-42), last significantly amended by the Copyright Modernization Act 2012 and the Budget Implementation Act 2022, protects the original expression of literary, artistic, dramatic, and musical works plus performers' performances, sound recordings, and communication signals for a term of the life of the author plus 70 years under Section 6 (extended from life plus 50 years by the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement Implementation Act 2020), grants copyright owners the exclusive rights to reproduce, perform, publish, and communicate works to the public over the Internet under Section 3, establishes fair dealing exceptions for research, private study, education, parody, satire, news reporting, and criticism under Sections 29 to 29.2, and provides statutory damages of CAD 500 to CAD 20,000 per infringed work for non-commercial infringement and CAD 500 to CAD 100,000 for commercial infringement under Section 38.1.
Pillar: Creative, Content & Media IP · Authority: Parliament of Canada · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-42/page-2.html
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- {"title":"Copyright Modernization Act (S.C. 2012, c. 20)","url":"https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-11.5/","section":"Sections 3-46 (education fair dealing, parody and satire exceptions, non-commercial user-generated content, technological protection measures, Notice and Notice regime, statutory damages reform)","relevance":"2012 amendments implementing WIPO Internet Treaties, expanding fair dealing to education, parody, satire, and user-generated content, introducing the anti-circumvention regime, establishing the Notice and Notice framework for ISPs, and capping statutory damages for non-commercial infringement"}
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