Gazette copyright article

The University of Waterloo's Gazette ^[1] ran a double-page feature article on Canada's copyright law in the May 16, 1979, issue. The article is reproduced here to provide historical perspectives on copyright issues. These perspectives may be useful in understanding how copyright law should be updated given the problems we have seen in the past. Please let me know about any corrections or extra footnotes that should be made.

• Canada's ancient law needs an overhaul, experts say (main article, pages 8-9)
• The basics of copyright: author owns it for 50 years (page 8)
• US revises its own law: now who owns Sherlock Holmes? (page 9)
• About the Gazette (page 2)

The above pages were translated into text by the open source Tesseract optical character recognition (OCR) engine from scanned images of photocopies of the Gazette obtained from the Doris Lewis Rare Book Room. Here are the original images:

• all pages (ZIP) (1,738,202 bytes)
• page 1 (1,800,674 bytes)
• page 2 (1,891,186 bytes)
• page 8 (1,868,294 bytes)
• page 9 (1,834,862 bytes)

License

The About the Gazette page contains the following sentence: "Editorial material may be reprinted freely; credit would be appreciated." I believe this to mean that I am free to post the above articles online without explicit written consent and that others are free to do the same (IANAL, TINLA). If you believe otherwise, please contact me.

This page and all footnotes in the above articles are Copyright © 2008 Denver Gingerich. I license this page and all footnotes in the above articles under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. For more information about me, visit my blog.

1. The Gazette was a University of Waterloo newspaper that was published between November 1960 and June 2004. For more information, see "Yes, it's the end of the Gazette" on the October 25, 2004, Daily Bulletin.