[Openfontlibrary] Canadian Public Domain
Here in Canada there's no such thing as public domain. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5809 Is my recollection that copyright actually expires before US copyright in canada. I seem to remember that they use to be on par, but that the united states increased there copyright length for some disney character. The above link is to a creative commons project aimed at canadian Public Domain ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] Canadian Public Domain
Yes, that is my project: http://creativecommons.org/projects/pdwiki Jon On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 10:01 -0500, Brendan Ferguson wrote: Here in Canada there's no such thing as public domain. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5809 Is my recollection that copyright actually expires before US copyright in canada. I seem to remember that they use to be on par, but that the united states increased there copyright length for some disney character. The above link is to a creative commons project aimed at canadian Public Domain ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA + Guangzhou + Beijing GLOBAL +1.415.830.3884 CHINA +86.1.360.282.8624 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org IM/skype: kidproto Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] Canadian Public Domain
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 10:01 -0500, Brendan Ferguson wrote: Here in Canada there's no such thing as public domain. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5809 Hmm, dated 2006 and no comments. Is my recollection that copyright actually expires before US copyright in canada. It depends... In the US, works released in the US before 1923 are out of copyright, as are _some_ works produced more recently, and of course all works released into the public domain. In Canada, in general, it's the lessor of 50 years after publication or 70 years after death, but that's an oversimplification. Strictly speaking my understanding is that in Canada we have no such thing as public domain in the US legal sense. A work is either in copyright, or out of copyright because the rights expired. The copyright holder can of course give people permission, but could also withdraw that permisison. The term public domain is soemtimes used in Canada to refer to the body of works whose copyright has expired, I think. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
