Re: Syndicomm Scam

[Eric Rucker <bhtooefr@gmail.com>]

On Friday, April 26, 2013 7:27:07 PM UTC-4, Bill Buckels wrote:
> Whoa! I don't know where you live Erik, but where I live it doesn't appear 
> that Tony is being Fair... We have user's rights here, and as a result the 
> so called "legal" copyright holders of the works he represents may well have 
> lost the ability to defend their works here by not making them available in 
> a timely manner and for other reasons as well...  I've said this before 
> about other issues... if I make copies in Canada because I can't get a fair 
> shake from a US vendor, try to stop me! I don't care how big your Apple is:)

Specific non-Wikipedia citation that says that a Canadian can copy something that has been abandoned, without requesting copyright exemption for that work from a copyright tribunal after trying and failing to locate the copyright owner, please? (So, there is a way, but not anywhere near as broad as you claim it to be.)

For what it's worth, fair dealing appears to be more like the US concept of fair use (although somewhat stronger due to being directly coded into law, whereas fair use is a judicial doctrine), which doesn't cover copying the entire work just because it's abandoned in any way, shape, or form - and ESPECIALLY not when the copyright owner has an authorized distributor offering it for sale (and therefore the copyright owner being found).