This article discusses a number of implications for manuscript sources preserved in archival repositories with respect to the Canadian copyright law, as well as requests a revision of the law. The law inadequately defines certain terms such as literary works, publication, and author, making it difficult for archivists to apply the law without infringing upon it. The clause authorizing fair use of documents for research purposes is the only clause to date to allow archival material to be available to researchers. Although the absence of opposition by those holding copyright on archival materials can be seen as an acceptance of current practices, the law continues to be vague. The law must be revised so as to specifically include the use of m...
Courts have struggled with articulating the standard for “originality” in copyright law. Some judge...
This paper is divided into three parts. The first part explores why, at least with regard to the use...
This paper, updated from one delivered to the Canadian IT Law Association’s 13th Annual Conference i...
This article discusses a number of implications for manuscript sources preserved in archival reposit...
This thesis analyses the nature and common law history of copyright, highlights the problematic aspe...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the practices of Canadian repositories in making their a...
When the Copyright Law of 1976 (Title 17, U.S. Code) was passed, archivists welcomed it as a reform ...
In the last round of amendments to Canadian copyright law there were significant changes made to cop...
Existing precedent and commentator opinion reiterates that the purpose of copyright law is not to be...
At a time when the information society requires that copyright be increasingly harmonised, the autho...
Connections 2005, Montreal, QC, May 14-15Information is increasingly seen as the commodity which dri...
article published in law journalIN THREE RECENT CASES, the Supreme Court of Canada provided several ...
Fire insurance plans are among the most valuable records documenting the development of Canada’s cit...
During the past thirty years Canadian literature has developed at a remarkable rate, with the result...
This paper considers the place of the archive sector within the copyright regime, and how copyrigh...
Courts have struggled with articulating the standard for “originality” in copyright law. Some judge...
This paper is divided into three parts. The first part explores why, at least with regard to the use...
This paper, updated from one delivered to the Canadian IT Law Association’s 13th Annual Conference i...
This article discusses a number of implications for manuscript sources preserved in archival reposit...
This thesis analyses the nature and common law history of copyright, highlights the problematic aspe...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the practices of Canadian repositories in making their a...
When the Copyright Law of 1976 (Title 17, U.S. Code) was passed, archivists welcomed it as a reform ...
In the last round of amendments to Canadian copyright law there were significant changes made to cop...
Existing precedent and commentator opinion reiterates that the purpose of copyright law is not to be...
At a time when the information society requires that copyright be increasingly harmonised, the autho...
Connections 2005, Montreal, QC, May 14-15Information is increasingly seen as the commodity which dri...
article published in law journalIN THREE RECENT CASES, the Supreme Court of Canada provided several ...
Fire insurance plans are among the most valuable records documenting the development of Canada’s cit...
During the past thirty years Canadian literature has developed at a remarkable rate, with the result...
This paper considers the place of the archive sector within the copyright regime, and how copyrigh...
Courts have struggled with articulating the standard for “originality” in copyright law. Some judge...
This paper is divided into three parts. The first part explores why, at least with regard to the use...
This paper, updated from one delivered to the Canadian IT Law Association’s 13th Annual Conference i...