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Originally Posted by gideongallery
sure it does your being squeezed between public domain and fair use
your countries copyright laws only apply to your countries citizens period
you have to accept the conditions canada copyright laws to be granted exclusive rights to canadians.
Don't accept those conditions you are not granted exclusive rights to your content.
In otherwords you put your content into the public domain for canadians which means they can take it if they want.
Acccept the conditions then you agree to the price set by the CRIA on your behalf when they negotiated piracy tax. In which case again canadians have a right to take what they want.
You may think it unfair, hell a lot of independent artist are royally pissed at the fact that when they by blank cd to record their own music to sell at club events they are paying royalties to britney spears for piracy that they can prove never happened and they can't claim a share of because they don't meet the sales conditions set in the claims form.
IT tough luck to them, the law is the law, just because you like it doesn't give you the right to ignore it.
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Nope, no one have "negotiated on my behalf"....
If you buy something from another country, you accept the conditions set by that country. You can not start distributing the product to Canadian citizens, just because they pay tax
Trust me, your "law" will not live for long. We already had the same here years ago. It didn't work, simply because there are no efficient way to administrate it. Not as "public domain"... Instead it has gone opposite way, and today the court has even ordered to block sites like the pirate bay.
There is only one way to administrate it, and that is back to square one: The country must catalogue everything. Pay the copyright holders if they buy rights, and then control what is given out to their own citizens. This has been done before: With public libraries. It can be done digital, and cross countries. But still you have to respect other countries who do not participate.