Today CTV has
announced that it has acquired the rights to the jingle in "perpetuity". Quote from the article: "It's wonderful to have been able to save it," Brace said. "It was headed to obscurity. It was going to fade away and we're glad we were able to make a deal, buy the rights in perpetuity for all platforms. You're going to hear a lot of it."
According to Canadian copyright law, the copyright of a song is owned by its authors. Its term expires 50 years after his/her death. The copyright to the jingle appears to be own by Dolores Calman, who is still alive. If the copyright is owned by her company "Copyright Music & Visuals" then it will expire 50 years after its first performance (2018).
As a consequence the right to the jingle is not to perpetuity. It is only until its copyright expires.
Also, it will be likely that CBC will probably enforce its right to the trademark "Hockey Night in Canada" so you will probably stop hearing Dolores Calman and CTV referring to the jingle by that name. She in facts calls it "The Hockey Theme".
If she really cared that it became 'Canada's Second National Anthem' then she should have put it in the public domain. You can't have a "National Anthem" that can't be performed in public without a license.
--dmg
