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Supporting Culture and Innovation: Report on the Provisions and Operation of the Copyright Act

Preface
Executive summary
Chapter 1: Introduction
- A. Background
- B. The Current Reform Environment
- C. Key Copyright Concepts
  - C.1 Work and Author
  - C.2 Categories of Works
  - C.3 Authors' Rights
  - C.4 Originality and Fixation
  - C.5 Public Domain and Term of Protection
  - C.6 International Protection
  - C.7 Rights of Performers, Sound Recording Makers and Broadcasters
  - C.8 Collective Management of Rights
  - C.9 Limitations and Exceptions to Rights
  - C.10 Infringement
  - C.11 Remedies
- D. Overview of Recent Legislative History
- E. Canada's Approach to Copyright Reform
Chapter 2: Provisions and Operation of the Act
- A. Recognition and Protection of Works and Other Subject Matter
  - A.1 Copyright and Moral Rights in Literary, Dramatic, Musical, and Artistic Works
    - A.1.1 Authorship of films and videos
    - A.1.2 Authorship of photographs
    - A.1.3 Crown copyright
    - A.1.4 Databases
    - A.1.5 Droit de suite(resale royalty right)
    - A.1.6 Distribution right
    - A.1.7 First ownership of commissioned photographs
    - A.1.8 Fixation
    - A.1.9 Linking
    - A.1.10 Making available right
    - A.1.11 Moral rights
    - A.1.12 Reproduction right for artistic works
    - A.1.13 Rights management information
    - A.1.14 Rights of freelance periodical writers
    - A.1.15 Technological protection measures
    - A.1.16 Term of protection
    - A.1.17 Term of protection of photographs
    - A.1.18 Term of protection for unpublished works
    - A.1.19 Traditional knowledge
  - A.2 Copyright in Performers' Performances, Sound Recordings and Communication Signals
    - A.2.1 Moral rights for audio and audiovisual performers
    - A.2.2 Reproduction right for performers
    - A.2.3 Rights for audiovisual performers
    - A.2.4 Rights for broadcasters
    - A.2.5 Term of protection for sound recording makers and performers
  - A.3 Enforcement and Remedies
    - A.3.1 Criminal offences - minimum value of infringing copies
    - A.3.2 Definition of "infringing" copy
    - A.3.3 Distribution of infringing copies of a work
    - A.3.4 ISP liability
    - A.3.5 Printers' liability
    - A.3.6 Statutory damages
  - A.4 Registration and Priority of Security Interests
- B. Access to and Use of Works and Other Subject Matter
  - B.1 Rights Management
    - B.1.1 Collective management of copyright
    - B.1.2 Copyright Board
    - B.1.3 Layering of rights
    - B.1.4 Unlocatable copyright owners
  - B.2 Limitations and Exceptions
    - B.2.1 Administration of justice
    - B.2.2 Computer programs
    - B.2.3 Contractual limitations on exceptions and uses
    - B.2.4 Ephemeral recording exception
    - B.2.5 Exceptions for individuals with perceptual disabilities
    - B.2.6 Exceptions for libraries, archives and museums
    - B.2.7 Exceptions for non-profit educational institutions
    - B.2.8 Fair dealing
    - B.2.9 Performance of an audiovisual work on the premises of an educational institution
  - B.3 A Special Regime for Music: Private Copying
Chapter 3: Copyright Reform Agenda

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