Note: Not trying to be a smart@ss.
Why do we need the bulwark specifically in an English-speaking country?
Josh
A) Because without one, the entire Commonwealth is going to fall to the life+70 empire. B) Because the sooner we get started on a Canadian life+50 project, the more harm we can demonstrate to policy-makers and potential allies in the broader community, when the full-court press for life+70 is brought down.
2.Because Canada has NOT made it's copyright laws more restrictive over and over and over.
The wimps who make our copyright policy are under EXTREME pressure to extend the term, and, contrary to what you write, MH, have made some incredibly stupid and restrictive policy decisions in respect of other CR matters, other than term, in the past little while.
4. Even more specifically to host Gone With The Wind, after the lawyers' onslaught about it recently.
And also, if we can hold off till January 1 2007, the A.A. Milne corpus.
5. Project Gutenberg of Canada also should encourage more French eBooks, as well as just in English.
Absolument! There's already a surprisingly robust PD movement in Quebec, and many of the projects I've created on PGDP have been in French, with more to come. The source scans from other sites (canadiana.org, BNQ, etc.) also provide ample French-language content to work from.
6. The more Project Gutenbergs the better. . . .
So when do we -- whoever WE is -- get PG-Canada, under life+50 rules, up and running?