Guide to the Copyright Board
of Canada, Incorporating
the User’s Guide to Canadian Copyright Tariffs
(First Edition, 2020)

This provides a complete guide to the mandate and operations of the Copyright Board of Canada.  It also includes the complete text of the sixty copyright tariffs that are currently in force in Canada, and summaries of all relevant court decisions as well as decisions from the Copyright Board of Canada.

Authored by Peter S. Grant, Grant Buchanan, Daniel G.C. Glover and Keith D. Rose from McCarthy Tétrault’s Technology, Communications and Intellectual Property Groups, this book is an indispensable resource regarding applicable royalty rates and how they are determined.

This book provides an annotated guide to Canadian copyright tariffs relating to the use of music, the reproduction of literary works, media monitoring, levies on blank tapes, and the retransmission of distant radio and television signals, as of January 1, 2020. The handbook also includes an introductory note on the mandate of the Copyright Board of Canada, detailed notes on judicial review of the Board’s decisions, a list of all collective societies operating in Canada, a table of royalties collected under the certified tariffs, and an update on all tariff applications that are currently before the Copyright Board.