[Coco] Barden Book

[James Dessart]

On 7-Jul-04, at 12:47 PM, Roger Taylor wrote:

>> If you get me the contact info, I can try. I'm a Canadian citizen, so 
>> I'm entitled to ask for a license (and he is obligated to provide 
>> one,
>
> ????
>
> That part, I'm not quite following.  He's obligated to give you a 
> license?

Yes. By Canadian law, unless the copyrighted work is still published. 
I've been trying to load the law itself, but the site seems to be 
unresponsive. Here's the link to the entire Canadian Copyright Act: 
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-42/index.html

The reasoning is, if a copyrighted work is published in Canada, and 
becomes unavailable (I think for 5 years,) the current copyright holder 
is obligated to issue a license to someone who wants to publish it, 
unless they decide to republish themselves. The terms of the license 
are not specified, though.

James