During the past 20 years, more or less, copyright has evolved from a relatively obscure area of specialized legal practice to a topic at the forefront of public consciousness and policy debates. This metamorphosis might be due to technolog- ical innovation, social practices, commercial...

As organisations that negotiate and grant licences for the use of copyright-protected materials and collect and distribute royalties to copyright owners, collecting societies are one of the important institutions of the copyright industry. Although good corporate governance is a sine qua non for...

This article analyses Canada’s approach to the problem of unlocateable copyright owners, more commonly called the problem of orphan works. Section 77 of the Copyright Act empowers the Copyright Board of Canada to issue a non-exclusive licence to an applicant whose reasonable efforts to locate...