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Originally Posted by DNSB
In this area, you can assign your copyright which is the equivalent of selling it for all or part of the copyright term. You can also do a copyright licence which allows a third-party to exercise some or all of the rights associated with copyright without worrying about an infringement suit.
See this link for more information for here: Transfer ownership (Canada). |
This is not the equivalent of selling it. The copyright is the property. Included in that property are certain rights. Those rights can be sold (assigned) or licensed. When you assign certain rights you will no longer own those rights until the assignment is over or the copyright expires. License simply means that you still own the rights and, of course, the copyright itself.
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Oddly though, the expiry of the copyright is still tied to the life of the author.
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That is not odd at all since the copyright itself never changes owners, only the rights within change owners through assignment.