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An Act to amend the Copyright Act (diagnosis, maintenance and repair) (S.C. 2024, c. 26)

Assented to 2024-11-07

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An Act to amend the Copyright Act (diagnosis, maintenance and repair)

S.C. 2024, c. 26

Assented to 2024-11-07

An Act to amend the Copyright Act (diagnosis, maintenance and repair)

SUMMARY

This enactment amends the Copyright Act in order to allow the circumvention of a technological protection measure if the circumvention is solely for the purpose of the diagnosis, maintenance or repair of certain types of products.

His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

R.S., c. C-42Copyright Act

  • 1 (1) Paragraph (a) of the definition circumvent in section 41 of the Copyright Act is replaced by the following:

    • (a) in respect of a technological protection measure within the meaning of paragraph (a) of the definition technological protection measure, to descramble a scrambled work or computer program, or decrypt an encrypted work or computer program or to otherwise avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate or impair the technological protection measure, unless it is done with the authority of the copyright owner; and

  • (2) Paragraph (a) of the definition technological protection measure in section 41 of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (a) controls access to a work, including a computer program, to a performer’s performance fixed in a sound recording or to a sound recording and whose use is authorized by the copyright owner;

2 The Act is amended by adding the following after section 41.12:

Marginal note:Diagnosis, maintenance and repair

  • 41.121 (1) Paragraph 41.1(1)(a) does not apply to a person who circumvents a technological protection measure for the sole purpose of maintaining or repairing a product, including any related diagnosing, if the work, performer’s performance fixed in a sound recording or sound recording to which the technological protection measure controls access forms a part of the product.

  • Marginal note:For greater certainty

    (2) For greater certainty, subsection (1) applies to a person who circumvents a technological protection measure in the circumstances referred to in that subsection for another person.

  • Marginal note:Non-application

    (3) A person acting in the circumstances referred to in subsection (1) is not entitled to benefit from the exception under that subsection if the person does an act that constitutes an infringement of copyright.

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