Creative Commons copyright licenses allow anyone from individual creators to large companies/institutions a simple way to grant copyright permissions to their IP. Every license helps the creator retain copyright while still allowing others to copy, distribute and use their work, non-commercially. This ensures that the rightful creator gets all the credit they deserve. There are different scales and levels of licensing available for creators at the bottom of the page.
This article thoroughly explains Bill C-11, Canada's revised Copyright Act, and lays it out in more simplified terms with relation to a wide spectrum of IP.
The CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings, states that torrent piracy in Canada has gone down by 50% since the establishment of Netflix three years ago, although no research or statistics have been able to support his claim. Hastings claims that piracy helps "create a demand" for legal ways to watch video through the internet. Is this true?
This article summarizes the history of Canadian fair dealing and explains the transition from fair dealing to fair use from three different scholars' perspectives. It also includes case-based examples, such as Access Copyright's legal action against York University.
This article is about a firm called Canipre, which is the only anti-piracy enforcement firm that provides forensic services to copyright holders in Canada. The firm has been monitoring Canadian users' downloading for several months from Ontario-based internet provider, Teksavvy.