----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Sly <sly@victoria.tc.ca> Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 6:20 pm Subject: Re: [PGCanada] Canadian copyright for corporations
Then the question reloves around your use of the phrase "the author's identity becomes known". What needs to be considered done for that to have happened?
That's why we need to see if there's case law on point, above and beyond the Copyright Board decision I noted earlier. We have to go back and look at the current section and its predecessors to see if there is precedent, and a look at comparable US, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand decisions, if any, wouldn't be bad either.
For the purposes of copyright clearance for PG Canada, how much research needs to be done to show that an author's name has not been made public?
Can't be definitive, but I'd start with the AMICUS database, the copyright database, for what it's worth (not much), Google, and the standard literary reference books. There's another route that may be required, but I'm not going to post that publicly.
(Copyright laws that have you trying to prove that something has _not_ been done are seldom any fun.)
Any laws that do that...