Re: Re: rights for defunct newspaper?

• Original Message ----- From: Bernard Katz <bkatz[_at_]uoguelph.ca> Date: Friday, March 3, 2006 1:40 pm Subject: [CNI-(C)] Re: rights for defunct newspaper?
  > A second suggestion, again pertenant to the Canadian scene, is that
  > the Copyright Board can be asked to licence a use under Section 77
  > (Owners
  > Who Cannot Be Located). See <www.cb-cda.gc.ca/unlocatable/brochure-
  > e.html>.
  

Which is fine, if you are willing to pay Margaret Atwood for work she didn't do. The Canadian Copyright Board has a cushy deal with the collectives, so that they get paid for the use of "unlocateables", even though part of the definition of "unlocateable" is that the author/owner isn't a member of, nor is the work in the repertoire of, the collective in question!

The collectives have about the same record finding "unlocateable" copyright owners as the rest of us: zero; one at best. Meanwhile, they collect thousands of dollars for having done no work, and distribute it to their membership for having done no work.

Shades of "Sponsorship"! Received on Mon Mar 06 2006 - 21:35:50 GMT