Powers of the Copyright Board

If an author thinks her publisher has been sitting on her book for years, or a radio station thinks a music society charges far too much, she does not have to go to a civil court for a trial lasting a decade. The Act sends many of these disputes to a specialist body. Older books and the syllabus call it the Copyright Board. The Act as it now stands calls it the Appellate Board. What does it decide, and with what powers?

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The body that decides technical copyright disputes under the Act (publication questions, revocation of assignments, compulsory and statutory licences, royalty rates, tariffs, rectification of the register and resale share) was the Copyright Board and is now the Appellate Board under s.11, with civil-court powers under s.74.

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