Darryl Moore wrote:
Your strategy of using a for profit corporation is interesting, however unless you can show significant lost income you will have a difficult uphill battle. Additionally there is no Charter right to a profit. There is however a NAFTA one. You might consider making your company an American entity. Then you would be able to sue for expropriation under the terms of NAFTA in a way that you could not as a Canadian company. But again, you'd have to show some significant lost profits.
Thank you foir an interesting and appealing strategy. With all respects to PG, I think their value added concepts (millions and millions of downloaders, infinite distribution time) are nebulous and non-enforceable. I'd rather go with their actual download list: at $1/download, 'Hand Writing on the Wall', has already generated $70K 'profit' since September. (Incidently, could I get a one-time complete list of downloads- not just the top 100?) Contrary to the idealistic approach of PG, these figures are by definition quantifiable. I think the idea of a pipe back to the States could well precipitate a NAFTA issue: we would already be in a position to argue that blocking GWTW is already NAFTA-restrainable! (Incidently, while I intend to stress adherence to national copyright regulation, the first two books I want to list are GWTW, and Thoreau's 'Civil Disobedience'.) The one possible objection to this strategy would be that PG and DP-INT might consider it trespass on their grounds. I want to make it quite clear- to /anyone/ who may be monitoring these threads- that my efforts are purely commercial, even though I may chose to give away all my profit. This means that I must not trespass on the pre-existing rights of other organizations, groups to which Distributed Proofreaders of Canada has no formal links, rights, or obligations. This is one reason why DPC solicits advice and assistance from other parties that may wish to stake a claim to any properties under PD. We'll be content with our share. Once we have reached concensus on DPC's status within the overall context of handling PD, voting shares will be issued, and a proper Board of Directors voted in. Our commercial success can only be achieved through active cooperation with others, though: so please do give advice- even negative advice will be appreciated and considered. Vasa