[PGCanada] Canadian copyright for corporations

[Russell McOrmond]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Wallace J.McLean wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andrew Sly <sly at victoria.tc.ca>
> Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 3:18 pm
> Subject: [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?

  I am surprised that corporations are not then "disclosing" authorship
when term is near to expire, disclosing the author who died last given
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).

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