Canada Assignment of Copyright and Waiver of Moral Rights

Canadian publishers, use this downloadable template to prepare an Assignment of Copyright and Waiver of Moral Rights for an author.

• The author of a work assigns his/her right and title to copyright in the work to a third party, and waives his/her moral rights in the work, pursuant to the Canada Copyright Act.
• An author's moral rights consist of the right to be identified as the creator of a work and the right to object to derogatory treatment of a work which the author feels is prejudicial or detrimental to his/her reputation.
• Moral rights do not transfer with the ownership of the copyright, however, they can be waived by the author.