According to canadian copyright the government only owns the protection rights for 50 years. Are there other factors in play that would prevent someone from using images/devices/designs from Canadian coins?
Not talking about restriking / reproducing old coins, but have seen more and more fantasy coins that use very similar effigies of the queen etc and curious to know the legality or pitfalls.
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For Crown copyrighted works, there is a slight difference. Section 12 of the Copyright Act stipulates:
12. Without prejudice to any rights or privileges of the Crown, where any work is, or has been, prepared or published by or under the direction or control of Her Majesty or any government department, the copyright in the work shall, subject to any agreement with the author, belong to Her Majesty and in that case shall continue for the remainder of the calendar year of the first publication of the work and for a period of fifty years following the end of that calendar year. [S.C. 1993, c. 44, s. 60(1)]