Hi Bob, I get this list in digest form so I only see it once a day and from that I see that your question has been well and truly answered already :) I thought, however, that I'd drop in a couple of web sites where you can find ACCURATE information on copyright and so avoid all the myths and fairy tales that seem to surround this subject. This one is by the CIPO (Canadian Intellectual Property Office) and is fairly readable: http://www.cipo.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic.nsf/eng/h_wr00003.html A couple of comments: I'm not at all sure about the value of their registration scheme. Make your own mind up on that one. I wonder if it might not be a means of introducing a MANDATORY fee based copyright registration system - otherwise known as - another tax! 2nd point: Remember that in making a readable interpretation of a law some of the detail may have been "smoothed" over. The full text of the law can be found at this site: http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/C-42/index.html Because it is a legal document this can be a challenging read. However it is THE ONLY real source on this subject and the web based presentation does at least allow you to get directly to the part you need, without plowing through the whole thing. Remember that it IS a legal document so its wording is very precise. What it says it means. If it doesn't specifically say something is included you cant go assuming that it is - for whatever reason. It isn't. Someone else mentioned US Copyright: US Copyright is very different from Canadian copyright in many important detailed provisions in addition to the 50 year / 70 year area (although both countries honor the other's copyright legislation.) There is, for instance, a US provision under which a copyright can be extended - apparently indefinitely - but there doesn't seem to be a place to go to find out if an extension has been registered! I have found it very difficult to interpret US copyright status in specific cases. Nor have I found a site like the CIPO's, which offers a reliable, "plain English" version for quick reference. Malcolm Archive CD Books Canada Inc. President: Malcolm Moody PO Box 11 Manotick Ontario, K4M 1A2 Canada. (613) 692-2667 WEB SITE: http://www.ArchiveCDBooks.ca FACEBOOK: http://tinyurl.com/ACDB-Can-on-Facebook On 4 Apr, 2010, at 3:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Message: 6 > Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:23:08 -0400 > From: Bob Hegerich <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NS-L] [LL] Chronically Horrid > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi Malcolm: > > I'm not a lawyer either, but am fairly certain you are right on the > mark. One point though . . . > > It has been my understanding that, under Canadian copyright law, it is > necessary to expressly claim and register a copyright, whereas under > US > law, the courts have fairly recently held that that an author has > an"implicit" copyright and need not register for the copyright to be > valid. > > Know anything about that? > > -----Bob H-----