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Regulations Establishing the Period Within Which Owners of Copyright not Represented by Collective Societies Can Claim Retransmission Royalties

SOR/97-164

COPYRIGHT ACT

Registration 1997-03-19

Regulations Establishing the Period Within Which Owners of Copyright not Represented by Collective Societies Can Claim Retransmission Royalties

The Copyright Board, pursuant to paragraph 70.66(3)(b)Footnote a of the Copyright Act, hereby makes the annexed Regulations Establishing the Period for Royalty Entitlements of Non-members of Collecting Bodies.

Ottawa, March 18, 1997

 The owner of copyright who does not authorize a collective society to collect, for that person's benefit, the royalties referred to in paragraph 31(2)(d) of the Copyright Act and whose work is so retransmitted has a period of two years following the end of the calendar year in which the retransmission occurred to claim the royalties payable under subsection 76(1) of that Act.

  • SOR/2004-152, s. 2

 These Regulations come into force on March 19, 1997.

 

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