Re: [d@DCC] C-36 thoughts

From: "tOM Trottier" <Tom _-at-_ Abacurial.com>
To: General Discussion <discuss (at) digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 01:40:19 -0400

On Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 21:50
mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca <discuss@digital-copyright.ca> wrote:

...
> The thing is, it applies to all published works, and published works
> appear intended to include Web sites and all other communication made to
> the public, and the two copies have to be provided at the publisher's own
> expense.  The details, and exemption of some classes of works, are left up
> to the "regulations" to be written later.  Does that mean that if I update
> my Web site, I have to send two copies of it on paper to the National
> Archives?  Every single time I update (which is typically daily)?  Does
> that mean that if I want to publish something anonymously, I can't,
> because I have to identify myself to the Librarian and Archivist?  
...

I think an unencrypted copy deposit provision is a good idea - but why do you 
think paper is necessary? There's no "paper" requirement in the act. Just email 
them a copy, well, two copies...

Why would something totally electronic have to be deposited on paper? What 
about forms and their code? Microfiche? Stone tablets? 

The bill just says "two copies," not two examples.


As for responsibility, who is the publisher? The author or the ISP?

tOM
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