"Jen" == Jen Zed writes:
Jen> On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:02:21 +0100, Carlo Traverso
Jen> wrote:
>> >>>>> "Jen" == Jen Zed writes:
>>
Jen> It would be good if some of those books were only available
Jen> from PG-Canada.
>> This is impossible: if PG-CAN is truly PG, they can be posted
>> at least at other life+50 PG, e.g. GP-Europa, that is in
>> Serbia, and is starting now.
Jen> Okay, time to admit that legal stuff makes my eyes glaze
Jen> over. So I've just gone back to the mailing list archives and
Jen> read the threads about DP-EU, Serbia, and life+50. Are these
Jen> statements true?
Jen> 1. Serbia, where PG-EU is currently hosted, copyright is
Jen> life+50,
Yes
but under pressure to harmonize to Europe's
Jen> life+70.
I don't think so. Serbia is currently not in the EU, and is under much
wilder pressure (they were under bombing attacks a few years
ago). Would you say that currently Iraq is under pressure to change
his copyright law? It will be under pressure in 10-20 years from now,
maybe earlier. PG-EU might help Serbia to resist these pressures.
If Serbia changes to life+70, their life+50 books
Jen> will need a new home in a life+50 country. Currently, there
Jen> is no other PG in a life+50 country.
Jen> 2. In Canada, copyright is life+50. Similar to PG-EU, if we
Jen> had life+50 book on the site and the copyright laws were
Jen> changed to extend the term, we'd need to move those books to
Jen> a site hosted in a life+50 country.
Jen> 3. Various other countries (Chile, Iceland, Japan, South
Jen> Korea, New Zealand, etc) have life+50 copyright laws, so a
Jen> life+50 PG could be hosted in those countries as well.
Jen> What I'm wondering is that given that we could publish on
Jen> PG-EU anything we could publish on PG-CA, what's the reason
Jen> for building PG-Canada?
Jen> - because it might help bulwark against extensions to
Jen> Canada's copyright law? - because it would provide a home to
Jen> PG-EU life+50 books should Serbian copyright laws change, and
Jen> allow the continuation of work on life+50 books? - because
Jen> it provides the opportunity to implement a second-generation
Jen> PG infrastructure?
I completely agree; we need as many PG-50 as possible, for all these reasons.
Carlo