| Copyright Board |
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Commission du droit d’auteur |
| Date
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1998-12-24
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| Citation
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FILE: 76(1)-1998-1
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| Regime
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Copyright Act, subsection 76(1)
Claims by Non-members in Retransmission
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| Members
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Michel Hétu, Q.C.
Ms. Adrian Burns
Mr. Andrew E. Fenus
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Application by the société des auteurs, recherchistes, documentalistes et compositeurs (SARDeC)
Reasons for decision
I.
DECISION
Pursuant to subsection 76(1) of the Copyright Act, the Board hereby designates the Canadian Retransmission Right Association (CRRA) as the collective society from which the following copyright owners, and any person claiming under them, are entitled to be paid retransmission royalties, subject to the same conditions as those to which a person who has so authorized that collective society is subject.
Targeted owners: owners of copyright in texts, written pursuant to the agreement managed by SARDeC, used in the production of television programs produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation or by the Société de télédiffusion du Québec and retransmitted on distant signals between January 1, 1990 and December 31, 1997, if those owners did not authorize a collective society named in Appendix A of the Retransmission of Distant Radio and Television Signals Tariff certified by the Board for the years 1990 to 1997 to collect royalties on account of those texts.
Reasons to follow.
Claude Majeau
Secretary to the Board