SUMMARY

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.

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.

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.