[PGCanada] Canadian copyright for corporations
Wallace J.McLean
ag737 at freenet.carleton.ca
Tue Jan 18 14:53:20 PST 2005
----- Original Message -----
From: Russell McOrmond <russell at flora.ca>
Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 5:42 pm
Subject: Re: [PGCanada] Canadian copyright for corporations
> > > That makes me wonder then, that in a work published by and
> > > copyrighted by a corporation, if an author is not credited,
> > > and cannot be determined, could I look to acertain a copyright
> > > term on the basis of annonymous authorship?
> >
> > Yes: http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/unlocatable/other/2-b.pdf
>
> Are you suggesting that anonymous works (which works with
> corporate ownership tend to be) have only a 50 year term?
Under Canadian law, yes, if the personal author or authors are, and
remain, unknown.
> I am surprised that corporations are not then "disclosing"
> authorship when term is near to expire, disclosing the author who
> died last given
In most cases, that corporate owner itself won't even know.
> that in joint authorship the "public domain public good countdown"
> starts when the last author dies (or is offed... I think the
> morbidity of public benefit from authors death should be eradicated).
"morbidity of public benefit from authors death" < explain this phrase.
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