----- 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.
Wallace J.McLean wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: dlainson at 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:
Surprisingly the legal advice I received yesterday said that (at least as far as Canadian courts are concerned) the physical location of the server makes absolutely no difference. The most important aspect of the issue is who the intended target audience is and what reasonable measures were taken to make this evident and to deny access to others. This is to my mind a fairly enlightened perspective, as it recognizes the omnipresent aspect of the Internet, and the computers that are its component parts.
Wallace J.McLean wrote:
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:
Thank you. I had forgotten about the Grey Album. I will at that one to my list of negative copyright side effects.
Someone might want to check my math, I counted 74 below, incl. Australia.
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.
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