I'm sorry about our softwood lumber. Just because we have more trees than you, doesn't give us the right to sell you lumber that's cheaper and better than your own.
It would be like if, well, say you had ten times the television audience we do and you flood our market with great shows, cheaper than we could produce. I know you'd never do that.
Canadian copyright law is very similar to the USA's. You can copy your own stuff for personal use.
The difference is an agreement made by the music companies (see http://www.cpcc.ca/), to let you copy other people's stuff for yourself, and in return they collect a levy on cassettes, CDs and MP3 players.
The issue is whether the file-sharers were distributing music. The judge is saying they didn't send the music out, they just put it where it's available to others.
"Theft" isn't even an issue here, since personal copying of music is specifically allowed in Canada, thanks to the levy on cassettes, CDs and MP3 players. I can borrow your CD and copy it for myself, but I'm not allowed to copy my CD and give it to you.
Incidentally, this isn't because Canadian copyright law is different, this is because the music companies agreed to let it work this way (although they're bitter because they didn't foresee the Internet, and don't get to set the rates). And it only applies to music; other materials don't qualify.
It's only personal copying for your own use that's legal in Canada, not distribution. I can borrow your CDs and copy them, but I'm not allowed to copy mine and give them to you.
Of course we still have copyright laws in Canada, so I can't sell or buy music without the copyright holder's consent.
Is the patent ruling effective worldwide, or only in the USA? Will Microsoft offer me a Canadian version of MSIE which loads plug-ins the way it's supposed to, or has Eolas ruined it for everybody?
You're proposing that accessibility software makers do tens of thousands of hours of programming and testing work, so that handicapped people can download megabytes of extra files to get wildly unreliable results.
All because you're too lazy to put alt="" in an image tag where the standard requires it.
But the "typewriter quote" isn't a real apostrophe. It's a hack invented by nineteenth century typewriter manufacturers to save a key in their mechanism, and to optimize the typing pool.
A real English-language apostrophe looks the same as a real English-language closing single quotation mark -- like a little closed figure "9". That's how they're printed in books, and that's how they're printed in third grade printing class.
The typewriter quote is an established business convention, and it's fine for casual email etc. But if you're doing any kind of finished graphic design work, you must use a real apostrophe. I always shake my head when I see that some car manufacturer has spent $100k on a commercial that went to TV with a big fat typewriter quote in the text.
These aren't new in Unicode. Real quotations and apostrophes have been usable in the Mac-Latin character set since 1984, and in Windows too, although there's no easy way to type them on Windows. Typographic quotes work on the web in most version 4.x and newer browsers. You can read about how to use good typographic quotes, dashes and spaces on the web at A List Apart in The Trouble with EM 'n EN.
Also, because Pluto's orbit is retrograde, highly tilted and very eccentric (it sometimes comes closer to the sun than Neptune), it's thought to be an object that was captured in this orbit after the formation of the solar system. All of the other planets probably coalesced along with the original formation of the solar system.
Pluto's orbit is in a 3:2 resonance with Neptune's (reminiscent of Cruithne's relationship with Earth). In the last ten years, a number of other pluto-like objects have been discovered further out in the Kuiper belt.
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No, I'm sorry.
If it's any consolation, the levy is $.77 on media that are labelled "CD-R Audio", and only $.21 on data CD-Rs.
Canadian cents, of course.
Canadian copyright law is very similar to the USA's. You can copy your own stuff for personal use.
The difference is an agreement made by the music companies (see http://www.cpcc.ca/), to let you copy other people's stuff for yourself, and in return they collect a levy on cassettes, CDs and MP3 players.
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I hear that the first few seasons of X-Files were pretty popular. Does it qualify as CanCon?
The issue is whether the file-sharers were distributing music. The judge is saying they didn't send the music out, they just put it where it's available to others.
"Theft" isn't even an issue here, since personal copying of music is specifically allowed in Canada, thanks to the levy on cassettes, CDs and MP3 players. I can borrow your CD and copy it for myself, but I'm not allowed to copy my CD and give it to you.
Incidentally, this isn't because Canadian copyright law is different, this is because the music companies agreed to let it work this way (although they're bitter because they didn't foresee the Internet, and don't get to set the rates). And it only applies to music; other materials don't qualify.
It's only personal copying for your own use that's legal in Canada, not distribution. I can borrow your CDs and copy them, but I'm not allowed to copy mine and give them to you.
Of course we still have copyright laws in Canada, so I can't sell or buy music without the copyright holder's consent.
I do, but Microsoft's out of date WMP for Mac won't play the audio in the BBC files.
Is the patent ruling effective worldwide, or only in the USA? Will Microsoft offer me a Canadian version of MSIE which loads plug-ins the way it's supposed to, or has Eolas ruined it for everybody?
That's ridiculous.
You're proposing that accessibility software makers do tens of thousands of hours of programming and testing work, so that handicapped people can download megabytes of extra files to get wildly unreliable results.
All because you're too lazy to put alt="" in an image tag where the standard requires it.
But the "typewriter quote" isn't a real apostrophe. It's a hack invented by nineteenth century typewriter manufacturers to save a key in their mechanism, and to optimize the typing pool.
A real English-language apostrophe looks the same as a real English-language closing single quotation mark -- like a little closed figure "9". That's how they're printed in books, and that's how they're printed in third grade printing class.
The typewriter quote is an established business convention, and it's fine for casual email etc. But if you're doing any kind of finished graphic design work, you must use a real apostrophe. I always shake my head when I see that some car manufacturer has spent $100k on a commercial that went to TV with a big fat typewriter quote in the text.
These aren't new in Unicode. Real quotations and apostrophes have been usable in the Mac-Latin character set since 1984, and in Windows too, although there's no easy way to type them on Windows. Typographic quotes work on the web in most version 4.x and newer browsers. You can read about how to use good typographic quotes, dashes and spaces on the web at A List Apart in The Trouble with EM 'n EN.
Also, because Pluto's orbit is retrograde, highly tilted and very eccentric (it sometimes comes closer to the sun than Neptune), it's thought to be an object that was captured in this orbit after the formation of the solar system. All of the other planets probably coalesced along with the original formation of the solar system.
Pluto's orbit is in a 3:2 resonance with Neptune's (reminiscent of Cruithne's relationship with Earth). In the last ten years, a number of other pluto-like objects have been discovered further out in the Kuiper belt.
NASA has a good article on the subject entitled Much Ado About Pluto.