On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Darryl Moore wrote:
Wallace J.McLean wrote:
Hosting a PG-Canada in a place that attorns to the jurisdiction of a country with a copyright law different from that of Canada, is like painting a big "Sue Me!" on your ass.
If PG was hosted in Canada, Access Copyright would have sued it years ago.
Quite true. To that end we also must make sure that PG Canada is completely separate from PG US, or start a separate organization.
or both! No reason it should not be a separate organiztion, still called PG of Canada, presuming you like the basic tenets of Project Gutenberg.
This organization must be incorporated, and it should also be a registered charity.
I wouldn't WAIT for this to happen, I would get started right away, strike while the iron is hot! I ran PGUS from 1917 to 2000 before we ever got incorporated and registered.
Don't know how to incorporate, but I found the application for charity status here:
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pbg/tf/t2050/README.html
Does anyone know the current legal status of PG Canada? Any lawyers here who want to help set this up properly?
I can put requests for legal help for you in our Newsletters, etc.
Additionally, as was mentioned previously offlist, we need to get some people in the literary field involved, or at least to lend their names. The bigger the names the better. Does anybody know how to contact any big names?
I can probably get you some quotes from Marvin Minsky, Vint Cerf, etc., if that would help, not sure how much more they would do. . . .
I sent an email off to James Linden to try and get some technical information about the current project status. Hopefully I'll here back soon. I'll keep you posted.
Many thanks! Michael