On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:02:21 +0100, Carlo Traverso <traverso@dm.unipi.it> wrote:
"Jen" == Jen Zed <jenzed@gmail.com> writes:
Jen> It would be good Jen> if some of those books were only available 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.
Okay, time to admit that legal stuff makes my eyes glaze over. So I've just gone back to the mailing list archives and read the threads about DP-EU, Serbia, and life+50. Are these statements true? 1. Serbia, where PG-EU is currently hosted, copyright is life+50, but under pressure to harmonize to Europe's life+70. If Serbia changes to life+70, their life+50 books will need a new home in a life+50 country. Currently, there is no other PG in a life+50 country. 2. In Canada, copyright is life+50. Similar to PG-EU, if we had life+50 book on the site and the copyright laws were changed to extend the term, we'd need to move those books to a site hosted in a life+50 country. 3. Various other countries (Chile, Iceland, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, etc) have life+50 copyright laws, so a life+50 PG could be hosted in those countries as well. What I'm wondering is that given that we could publish on PG-EU anything we could publish on PG-CA, what's the reason for building PG-Canada? - because it might help bulwark against extensions to Canada's copyright law? - because it would provide a home to PG-EU life+50 books should Serbian copyright laws change, and allow the continuation of work on life+50 books? - because it provides the opportunity to implement a second-generation PG infrastructure? jen.