----- Original Message ----- From: dlainson@sympatico.ca Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 7:05 pm Subject: Re: [PGCanada] Gone With the Wind, redux
I have two independantly produced copies of GWTW. My own for PG AU, which I blush to say I have no record of the edition used, although since it conformed to the life+50 law in CA and AU that may be a non-issue
It would be an absolutely terrible, horrible, evil, nasty thing if people in life+50 (or less) countries, with access to servers physically located in those countries, were to post copies of a clearly- PD-in-life+50-countries file of GWTW to said servers. It would be an absolutely terrible, horrible, evil, nasty thing, although not nearly as terrible, horrible, evil, or nasty as what happened to EMI in the Danger Mouse "Grey Album" controversy: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%22grey+album%22+copyright+% 22White+album%22&meta= Countries with life+50 rules -- this is from the web, and don't believe everything you read on the internets, George Bush will tell you -- include Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia -- well, strike Australia -- Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bolivia, Benin, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Egypt, El Salvador, Fiji, Ghana, Iceland, Indonesia, Iraq -- under the new copyright law that the US-led forces have given them -- Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, (South) Korea, Kuwait, the Kyrgyz Republic, Lebanon, Malawi, Malaysia, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, New Zealand, Niger, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Qatar, Russia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Serbia and Montenegro, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Syria, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and Zambia. Obviously some of these countries have better internet penetration than others. However, anyone wishing to host a public domain edition of GWTW might most likely find soulmates in Argentina, Bulgaria -- they must have computers, since they have computer viruses -- Canada, Chile, Iceland, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Serbia and Montenegro, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, Ukraine, and the various Caribbean countries on the list. Not advocatin'. Not suggestin'. Just informin'. As you were, troops.