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Originally Posted by Dirty Dane
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. |
american rights supercede everyone elses
you are so dead wrong, if US laws (copyright act is a US law) superceded foreign countries laws then the pirate bay could be charged for violating the DMCA with their refusal. They couldn't they had to be judge by swedish law.
copyright is a personal right granting not a transactional rights granting. people/companies are granted the exclusive right to sell the content. People are granted fair use rights to use otherwise copyright protected material.
so the act of selling to a canadian irregardless of what country the transaction happens in grants cede person all the fair use rights granted to canadian citizen.