Copyright
9. Your Next Step
If, after having read this treatment, you are interested in pursuing legal protection for your work, please contact our office to set up an initial office conference with one of our copyright professionals to review your situation. Such an appointment will, in most cases, be set one or two weeks from the date you contact us to schedule same. In the interim, we will suggest that you complete our Copyright Disclosure Form. This Form asks you to complete a series of questions, setting out the details of the work which you have created and the circumstances surrounding its creation in an organized fashion. This will not only form a permanent record of your work for your own records, but will also allow the professional conducting your initial interview to have before him or her the pertinent details of your work, in order that the focus of the initial office conference may be directed to the issues with which you are primarily concerned, without overlooking any of the details in this very detailed area of the law. Thus, it is important that the Copyright Disclosure Form be fully completed to the best of your ability prior to your attendance at an initial office interview, if you wish to derive maximum benefit from the time allotted for your interview, which is typically about one hour.
As to confidentiality, all disclosures made to our firm are treated with the strictest confidentiality. As a firm of Barristers & Solicitors and Patent & Trade-Mark Agents, we are subject to the disciplinary proceedings by both the Law Society of Upper Canada (which licences lawyers to practice in Ontario) and the Patent & Trade-Mark Offices (which licences patent and trade-mark agents to practise in Canada). Moreover, we are also members of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, which professional organization sets and administers a Code of Ethics for all members practising in Canada. If requested, we will date and sign a form of confidentiality agreement at the initial interview so as to provide you with a written record of your disclosure to us.