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Yes. Please be aware that when you register your claim to a copyright in a work with the U.S. Copyright Office, you are making a public record. All the information you provide on your copyright registration is available to the public and will be available on the Internet.

If you want to reuse a work protected by copyright as a whole or any 'substantial part' of it, in principle you need to get permission from the copyright owner. This means identifying who owns copyright in the work you want to reuse and get a licence from them.

In order to request these services online, simply visit the CIPO website (.cipo.ic.gc.ca/copyrights), then fill out and send the appropriate form. The CIPO website also has copyright forms available for download that can be completed and sent by regular mail.

Under Section 27, which deals with copyright infringement, copyright is deemed to be infringed by any person who, without the copyright owner's consent: does anything that the Act gives the owner the sole right to do (Section 27(1)), deals with an infringing work in certain manners (Section 27(4)) or performs in public ...

A transfer of copyright rights is usually either an assignment or a license. An assignment of copyright rights is like the sale of personal property. The original owner sells its rights to a third party, and can no longer exercise control over how the third party uses those rights.

In an assignment of copyright rights, the owner sells his or her ownership rights to another party and has no control over how the third party uses those rights. A copyright assignment is sometimes referred to as a sales agreement for copyright.

A transfer of copyright ownership, other than by opera- tion of law, is not valid unless an instrument of conveyance (for example, contract, bond, or deed) or a note or memo- randum of the transfer is in writing and is signed by the owner of the rights conveyed or the owner's duly authorized agent.

Generally, when ownership of IP is transferred, it would mean that the right to make any future transfer is also included. But in case of assignment for a fixed term, the agreement can provide for a restriction on the right of the assignee to make future transfers during the term of the agreement.

The assignment must be done in writing to be valid. Although notarization isn't required, it's a good idea to have someone witness the assignor and assignee signing and dating the agreement. Transfer of ownership usually involves monetary exchange, although that's not a requirement.