Re: [d@DCC] C-36 thoughts

From: farrellj <farrellj _-at-_ stonehenge.pronym.org>
To: General Discussion <discuss (at) digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 00:01:46 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sun, 25 May 2003 mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:

> On Sun, 25 May 2003, farrellj wrote:
> > 	Actually, as someone who has helped publish a Science Fiction
> > Magazine (Northwords, later Northern Fusion), as well as program books for
> > Science Fiction conventions for about 20 years, this requirement for all
> > publications to send two copies to the National Archives has been in place
> > as long as I have been involved with publishing.
>
> Does it apply to Web sites?  C-36 looks like it's meant to, and that's
> new.  I'm also aware of a lot of amateur and informal hardcopy
> publications that do not send copies to any central authority.  Are they
> all breaking the law?  It may be that the current regulations exempt
> everyone except commercial publishers; but I'd rather have that in the Act
> than in the regulations, and if we're revising the requirement at this
> time, now might be a good time to make it a condition for copyright
> protection, which would be a good thing to do.

	As far as I know, it didn't apply to websites...but it did apply to
amateur hardcopy publications, the Ottawa Science Fiction Society dutifully
sent two copies to the NA after we recieved notice from the government that
we should be doing so. I don't know about informational publications...

ttyl
     Farrell
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