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This enactment amends the Criminal Code to include in the
definition of ``proceeds of crime'' any profit or benefit gained by a
person convicted of an indictable offence or his family from the creation
of a work based on the offence. This amendment extends to such profits
or benefits in the existing provisions of the Criminal Code respecting
search for and seizure and detention of proceeds of crime.
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It provides that a sentence for an indictable offence is deemed to
include an order that any work based on the offence is subject to a new
section in the Copyright Act. The bill amends the Copyright Act to
provide that in such a work the copyright that would otherwise belong
to the convicted person becomes and remains the property of the
Crown, even after the payment of any fine or service of any period of
imprisonment imposed.
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The enactment does not prevent any person from creating or
publishing such a work and affects only the profit or benefit that accrues
to the convicted person or his family.
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