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Re: Canadian Hosting Providers - how do you handle copyright and trademark complaints
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 03:03:06 -0400
On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 01:41:46 -0500, Jimmy Hess said:
On 6/6/13, Roy <r.engehausen () gmail com> wrote:US laws apply where ever the US says they apply. The question is how enforceable the US law is your country. There isCopyrights owned by people in the US are recognized in Canada, due to Canada having signed the berne convention; by virtue of owning a US copyright, a person automatically owns the exclusive rights in Canada as well.
I beleive Great Britain is also a Berne signatory, which makes this legislative gem from London rather... problematic: http://copyrightblog.co.uk/2013/04/29/d-err-cretins-1-creators-0/ (tl:dr vastly oversimplified - if you can't easily identify the copyright owner, it's free for the taking, rather than not usable without permission. So if you posted an awesome sunset picture from your vacation on Flickr, and somebody reshared it on another site, an advertising agency can find it, not be able to find you easily, and run with it as the artwork for an ad campaign) Some lawyers are about to get rich.
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