Canadian publishers, use this template to prepare an Assignment of Copyright and Waiver of Moral Rights, under which an author assigns his/her right and title to copyright in a certain 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 comprise 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 and cannot be sold or otherwise transferred, but they can be waived by the author.

This Canadian copyright assignment and waiver of moral rights is provided in MS Word format, and is easy to download, fill in and print. Buy the form once, it's yours to use as often as required.