Do you have a question or scenario about a Canadian-US copyright issue? Perhaps how the law treats a specific situation on both sides of the border? Please post your questions below as a comment. Thanks.
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Lesley
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Canadian Copyright Law
8 months ago
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I have an odd copyright question.
Intended use: as part of a new web service offered by a not-for-profit organization registered in the US, but all staff work etc is done in Canada.
Items: We want to use digital images of Renaissance paintings (i.e. think Henry VIII's era). Some of these works are in museums such as London's National Portrait Gallery. Some we have found are reproduced in books. The books are generally still in copyright.
The crux of question is whether somebody's else's digitization or reproduction of a public domain item (a Renaissance painting) confers copyright?
Hi Accidental Archivist - no copyright question is odd! A digitization of a work in Canada or the U.S. or elsewhere may or may not have a copyright by itself. In general, if it is a "mere" digitization, then there would be no protection. However, depending on the country, if there were an adjustment of lighting, for example, or arrangement of the article(s) being digitized, and other such factors, then there may be copyright in the digitized work.
Lesley
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