CCT206H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Copyright Modernization Act, Global Affairs Canada, Royalty Payment

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT206H5
• Professor: Anthony Wensley

Document Summary

Canadian copyright institutions: department of canadian heritage, department of the government of canada with responsibility for policies and programs regarding the arts, culture, media, communications networks, official languages, status of women, sports, and multiculturalism. Issue licenses, supervise agreements between users and licensing bodies: collective societies, collecting royalty payments and distributing it back to the artists, access copyright. Target libraries, university, and government agencies: every time someone makes a photocopy of a journal, the royalty payment is made to them and distributed to the author(s) Bill c-11: the copyright modernization act, 2012: passed by the harper government, most restrictive copyright bill. Fair dealing categories expanded to include: education, can show a copyrighted image or video, cinematic work if it is for educational purposes, as long it has been obtained legally, parody, a form of satire. Impersonations: satire, politically charged, new exceptions, lessons by telecommunications, distance education includes exams, readings. Shifting from one place to another: reverse engineering, engineers, cybersecurity.