Download This PaperSession II: The Impact of International Copyright Treaties and Trade Agreements on the Development of Domestic Norms
“The Impact of International Treaties and Trade Agreements on the Development of Domestic Norms – The Example of Canada”, 40 Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts 335-338, 2017
4 Pages Posted: 1 May 2020
Date Written: 2017
Abstract
In the 1950s and 1960s, many studies have led ultimately to the overhaul of the existing texts. For instance, here in the United States, the 1976 Act has been part of this movement. In Canada, studies were also undertaken. There was first a royal commission on intellectual property as a whole, which was followed by more studies that focused on copyright only. However, technology was progressing at its own pace, and even though some issues had already been dealt with previously, like the protection of sound recordings (because England had it in 1911), the Copyright Act was becoming increasingly anachronistic. The real impetus came from the computer industry in the 1980s, which needed the legal certainty provided by an affirmative legal provision on the copyright-ability of computer programs.
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