[politics] Re: [d@DCC] Senate Bill S-9

[Wallace J.McLean]

----- Original Message -----
From: Russell McOrmond <russell at flora.ca>
Date: Monday, November 1, 2004 11:18 am
Subject: Re: [politics] Re: [d at DCC] Senate Bill S-9

> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Wallace J.McLean wrote:
> 
> > to the photograph, at some point in the future, to determine (a) if
> > copyright subsists in that photograph, and (b) if so, who is 
> likely to
> > own that copyright.
> 
>  With the transferability of copyright, and the sometimes large trail
> that can happen, this problem seems to me to exist for all types 
> of works.

Yes, and it does. However, the problem exists ab initio with 
photographs, in a way that it does not for other types of works.

>  a) We need to have a registry and renewal process.

Not gonna happen: Berne.

>  Another technique currently discussed in the USA is the idea of
> out-of-print materials returning to the public domain.

Only within the limits set by Berne.




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