The Copyright Board of Canada (french: Commission du droit d'auteur du Canada) is an
economic
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regulatory
Regulation is the management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends. In systems theory, these types of rules exist in various fields of biology and society, but the term has slightly different meanings according to context. Fo ...
body empowered to establish, either mandatorily or at the request of an interested party, the
royalties to be paid for the use of
copyright
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, educatio ...
ed works, when the administration of such copyright is entrusted to a collective-administration society. The Board also has the right to supervise
agreements Agreement may refer to:
Agreements between people and organizations
* Gentlemen's agreement, not enforceable by law
* Trade agreement, between countries
* Consensus, a decision-making process
* Contract, enforceable in a court of law
** Meeting of ...
between users and licensing bodies and issues licences when the copyright owner cannot be located.
The Honourable
Robert A. Blair is the current
Chairman of the Board of Directors.
See also
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Copyright Act of Canada
The ''Copyright Act'' of Canada is the federal statute governing copyright law in Canada. It is jointly administered by the Department of Industry Canada and the Department of Canadian Heritage. The ''Copyright Act'' was first passed in 1921 and s ...
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Copyright law of Canada
The copyright law of Canada governs the legally enforceable rights to creative and artistic works under the laws of Canada. Canada passed its first colonial copyright statute in 1832 but was subject to imperial copyright law established by Britain ...
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Robert A. Blair
References
External links
Copyright Board of Canada website
Federal departments and agencies of Canada
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Canadian copyright law
Copyright collection societies
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
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