OT: Next Time you sing happy birthday

[Tyler Aviss]

OK, so now my question would be: If a company - such as for example
Swiss Chalet - which has American offices, sings a US copyrighted song
that isn't such in Canada... could they still be sued?

One might want to remember the fate of the neteller execs when they
had a connecting flight through the US:

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/19/0035220

>From what I remember of this case, the gentlemen in question were
actually not even decision-makers, but rather shareholders, and I've
even heard that they'd left that role before the new US law went into
effect.

You might think "it won't happen to me", but I suppose that those
execs, or others such as Mr Arar though the same. Heck, if you're into
online gambling, or have Cuban Cigars in your luggage, I'd be careful
that your non-US flight doesn't have to have some form of diversion or
emergency landing in US soil... it's just scary.


On 8/10/07, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 06:28:35PM -0400, Ansar Mohammed wrote
> > Make sure you get a license.
>
>   I would like to point out to readers of the ***GREATER TORONTO AREA***
> Linux Users Group the supreme sacrifice by Major General Sir Isaac Brock,
> and many other brave soldiers like him.  Thanks to their sacrifices,
> Toronto and the rest of Canada are subject to the laws listed at
> http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en and *NOT* the laws listed at
> http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Laws.shtml  Check with a
> licenced lawyer in your jurisdiction for the final answer.
>
>   The US is slowly expanding its copyright terms to approach infinity.
> In Canada (and most of the rest of the world) recordings made in 1956
> are public domain.  I would advise caution about any trips to the USA.
> Don't take an mp3 player with any music with you to the US.  A music
> collection that is public domain in Canada might not be so in the USA
>
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