Section 54 — Copyright Act: Register of Copyrights

The Minister shall cause to be kept at the Copyright Office a register to be called the Register of Copyrights in which may be entered the names or titles of works and of other subject-matter in which copyright subsists; the names and addresses of authors, performers, makers of sound recordings, broadcasters, owners of copyright, assignees of copyright, and persons to whom an interest in copyright has been granted by licence; and such other particulars as may be prescribed by regulation. [Repealed, 1997, c. 24, s. 31] In the case of an encyclopaedia, newspaper, review, magazine or other periodical work, or work published in a series of books or parts, it is not necessary to make a separate entry for each number or part, but a single entry for the whole work is sufficient. There shall also be kept at the Copyright Office such indices of the Register established under this section as may be prescribed by regulation. The Register and indices established under this section shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection, and any person is entitled to make copies of or take extracts from the Register. Any registration made under the Copyright Act , chapter 70 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1906, has the same force and effect as if made under this Act. Any work in which copyright, operative in Canada, subsisted immediately before January 1, 1924 is registrable under this Act.