There are two very useful sites you should look at the first relates to
Canadian Copyright law specifically, and has a lot of good stuff on the
changes proposed under Bill C-32

http://www.mghr.com/copyrightlaw/

The second is the homepage for the World Intellectual Property
Organization.  In the meeting which starts next week they will be
discussiong treat protection for databases, the draft definitions do not
exclude any form of systematically organized information (including
digital images) from protection.

http://www.wipo.org/eng/index.htm

Finally, while I am far from an expert on Intellectual Property law, I
am convinced that digital images are protected in the same way that
traditional photography is or music digitized onto a CD-ROM.

Richard Gerrard
Museum Studies Program
University of Toronto