Bill C-11
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SUMMARY |
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This enactment amends the Copyright Act to include, in the
definition of ``retransmitter''applicable to section 31 of that Act,
retransmitters who currently benefit from the compulsory licence
regime (such as cable distribution undertakings and direct-to-home
satellite distribution undertakings), while excluding new media
retransmitters whose retransmissions are lawful under the
Broadcasting Act by reason only of the Canadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Commission's Public Notice CRTC 1999-197.
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The enactment also amends the conditions with which a
retransmitter must comply in order to benefit from the compulsory
licence regime, and enables the Governor in Council to make
regulations prescribing additional conditions.
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