[163343] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Canadian Hosting Providers - how do you handle copyright and
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Jun 6 03:04:30 2013
To: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jun 2013 01:41:46 -0500."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 03:03:06 -0400
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 01:41:46 -0500, Jimmy Hess said:
> On 6/6/13, Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > US laws apply where ever the US says they apply.
> > The question is how enforceable the US law is your country. There is
>
> Copyrights owned by people in the US are recognized in Canada, due to
> Canada having signed the berne convention; by virtue of owning a US
> copyright, a person automatically owns the exclusive rights in Canada
> as well.
I beleive Great Britain is also a Berne signatory, which makes this legislative
gem from London rather... problematic:
http://copyrightblog.co.uk/2013/04/29/d-err-cretins-1-creators-0/
(tl:dr vastly oversimplified - if you can't easily identify the copyright
owner, it's free for the taking, rather than not usable without permission.
So if you posted an awesome sunset picture from your vacation on Flickr, and
somebody reshared it on another site, an advertising agency can find it, not
be able to find you easily, and run with it as the artwork for an ad campaign)
Some lawyers are about to get rich.
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