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

Contents

• Introduction

• Sources of Copyright
  • Copyright Act
  • International Treaties

• Subsistence of Copyright
  • Originality
  • Fixation
  • Exclusion

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

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

• Exemptions and Defences
  • Fair Dealing
  • Common Carrier
• Moral Rights

Further Reading

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

See also

• Canadian Trade-mark Law
• Canadian Patent Law