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"Earlier this year, we discussed that, thanks to shorter copyright terms
in Canada, things like early Beatles recordings and James Bond had
entered the public domain up north. It was no secret that the recording
industry was totally freaked out about this, and that resulted in the
somewhat bizarre situation in which Canadian Prime Minister Stephen
Harper single-handedly extended copyright on sound recordings for 20
years by sticking it into a budget update, without any public discussion
or concern about the fact that he was simply wiping out twenty years of
use of works that the public had been promised."
Entitlement.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
