Section 29.24 — Copyright Act: Backup copies

It is not an infringement of copyright in a work or other subject-matter for a person who owns —

or has a licence to use —

a copy of the work or subject-matter (in this section referred to as the “source copy”) to reproduce the source copy if the person does so solely for backup purposes in case the source copy is lost, damaged or otherwise rendered unusable; the source copy is not an infringing copy; the person, in order to make the reproduction, did not circumvent, as defined in section 41, a technological protection measure, as defined in that section, or cause one to be circumvented; and the person does not give any of the reproductions away. If the source copy is lost, damaged or otherwise rendered unusable, one of the reproductions made under subsection (1) becomes the source copy. The person shall immediately destroy all reproductions made under subsection (1) after the person ceases to own, or to have a licence to use, the source copy.