How To Be Protected by Canadian Copyright Law

Disclaimer: although this article is written by a licensed Canadian Business Lawyer, do not take this as official legal advice for your specific case. Law is complicated because a tiny exception can reject an entire regulatory regime. Copyright is governed by the Copyright Act, R.S.C., 1985, c C-42, which is a federal Canadian statute. When you are protected by Copyright, you are the only person legally capable of reproducing the object that is subject to Copyright protection. You are entitled to this right for your entire life plus 50 years after the year in which you die. You do not...

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