The Compleat

Canadian Copyright Act

Present, Past & Proposed Provisions

1921 - 2010 *

Appended December 2008, April 2010 & June 2010, ISBN 0-9689523-4-8

Compiler Press

THIS is a reference work documenting 87 years of the shifting power balance between creators, users, proprietors, Parliament and foreign interests reflected in the changing provisions of the Act.  This is the legislative record of attempts to accommodate new technologies that fix the expression of ideas, a.k.a., knowledge, in a new type of material matrix creating new ‘works’ to which copyright protection has been progressively extended, e.g., photographs, piano rolls, ‘talking’ pictures, radio, television, VCRs, DVDs, WWW, et al.  In the process new forms of property and associated streams of royalties are created. 

The provenance of each section of the Act is traced from 1921 to March 2010.  This work has been compiled from 62 statutes or bills receiving at least first reading in the House of Commons. The Act itself has not been consolidated since 1985 (R. S., c. C-42, 1985).  This means that its structure is fragmented within itself and in other statute, e.g., the Criminal Code.  ALL provisions are historically reported beginning with provisions presently in force followed by past and proposed provisions from 1921 plus private members’ bills from 1997.  

* The main work is fully compiled and indexed from 1921 to 2006.  In the current edition, however, four additional statutes are appended but not integrated or indexed.  The first, BILL C-59: An Act to amend the Criminal Code criminalizes unauthorized recording of a movie in a motion picture theatre.  It gained Royal Assent on June 22, 2007.  It does not, however, change the Copyright Act but rather references its definitions to criminalize unauthorized recording.  The second, BILL C-61: An Act to amend the Copyright Act, intended to allow Canada to ratify two 1996 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaties on copyright and neighbouring rights, received first reading in the House of Commons on June 12, 2008.  It died on the Order Paper with the end of the 39th Parliament. The third, private member's BILL C-499: An Act to amend the Copyright Act, intended to extend the levy on blank CDs to other recording media, received first reading on March 16, 2010.  The fourth, Bill C-32 - The Copyright Modernization Act received first reading in the House of Commons on June 2, 2010.

This work opens the door on to parliamentary debates, committee hearings and Canadian case law in which the dramatis personae played and are playing out their roles in the ever evolving legal drama that is the Copyright Act.  A 30 page introductory assessment of the historical, cultural, economic, legal and political significance of the Act is also provided.

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Content Summary

                     Introduction

                     Annotated Chronology

                     Index by Main Heading

                     Index by Section Heading

                     The Act: 1921-2006

                     Index by Main Heading prior to S.C. 1997, c. 24

                     Index by Section Heading prior to S.C. 1997, c. 24

                     Past Provisions

                               Compulsory & Serial Licences

                               Making Records in Canada

                               Transitional & Orphaned Provisions

                     Other Compiler Press Publications

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ERRATA NOTICE

Copies shipped before February24, 2010

1. Pages 306 & 307 missing but blank due to pagination error

Copies shipped before March 15, 2007

1. Introduction, pages xx, xxi & xxxiv

All references to the term of copyright in the United States should read ’70 years’, NOT ‘75’.

2. Introduction, page xxii

Final two words of the first paragraph should read ‘Harvard mouse’ NOT ‘Harvard muse’.