Links to official Canadian websites about 
the Canadian Intellectual Copyright Office and the Copyright Board of Canada
Plus links to community responses e.g. Digital Copyright Canada and independent commentators

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Official websites

Below you can find all the key official websites relating to Canadian copyright law

• Canadian Intellectual Property Office - The main website for copyright and intellectual property in Canada. The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) is a Special Operating Agency (SOA) associated with Industry Canada. It is responsible for the administration and processing of the greater part of intellectual property in Canada.
• Canadian Intellectual Property Office - The Copyright Home Page - including 'What is Copyright' and the answers to FAQs
• Application for Registration of a Copyright in a Work - Canadian Intellectual Property Office - Instructions on how to complete an application for the registration of a copyright in a literary, artistic, dramatic and/or musical work
• Copyright Board of Canada - The Copyright Board is an administrative agency which, among other things, sets the royalties to be paid for certain uses of works protected by copyright.
• Copyright Board of Canada - Unlocatable Copyright Owners - Unlocatable Copyright Owners page of the Copyright Board of Canada's Web site

Independent websites

• Facebook: Canadians for fair copyright - On September 29 2011 the government introduced Bill C-11. Join the new Fair Copyright for Canada Facebook Page that can be used to keep current and learn more about what can be done.
• Digital Copyright Canada | All Canadian Citizens are "Rights Holders"! - The Digital Copyright Canada forum was started in Aug 2001 to allow for a public response to that phase of the Canadian copyright revision process. It focuses on digital copyright and related issues of patents, copyright, trademarks (PCT)
• Access - The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency - Access Copyright was established as a not-for-profit organization in 1988 by a group of authors and publishers with a common and simple objective:To protect the value of their intellectual property 
• Copyright Law in CanadaThis article gives a general description of copyright law in Canada. The information contained in this article is of a general nature only and is not intended to cover the entire area of law relating to copyright. 
  
• Michael Geist - Blog - Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa
  
• Copyright law of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - The copyright law of Canada governs the legally enforceable rights to creative and artistic works under the laws of Canada. Current copyright law was established by the Copyright Act of Canada which was first passed in 1921 and substantially amended

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• What to do about copyright infringement - for artists 
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