What is the current definition of joint authorship in the Canadian Copyright Act?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Neudorf v. Nettwerk Productions Ltd., 1999 CanLII 7014 (BC SC):
Joint authorship was introduced to the English jurisprudence by Levy v. Rutley, supra. At the time of its introduction, neither the U.K. nor the Canadian copyright legislation included a definition of a "work of joint authorship." The current definition in the Act dates from the 1921 Act, and essentially copied the terms of the U.K. Act of 1911.
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