Michael Hart wrote:
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.
I wasn't planning on waiting. I've asked a few people I know if they can help, or know someone who can. I believe now with the very different national copyright laws and the very big US corporations who are so quick to litigate that it would not be smart to proceed without the proper corporate framework and appropriate legal advise. However certain things can be done in tandem. There is no reason we can't get the web site up and running while we get the legalities sorted out. Once we get a better grip of it all and have some idea of timelines we should be able to set a publication date. Hopefully before Christmas.
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.
Anything like that would be great. Just keep in mind that it is Canadian legal advice we are after. I'm not sure how much help a US lawyer would be.
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. . . .
That would help. But the most helpful would be an endorsement by prominent Canadian authors such as Pierre Button, Margaret Atwood, John Ralston Saul and others.