Another thing to be proud of with respect to being Australian
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
OF course, if an American posted it on a Canadian website, he would be legally liable for copyright infringement. If a Canadian did it, it would be perfectly legal. On the other hand, some US copyright holders have threatened lawsuits to Canadian server for hosting items in the public domain in Canada, but still under copyright in the US. A well known example of this is Gone With the Wind which is PD in Canada, but nobody will host it there because everybody who does gets threatened with an infringement suit, deliberately to have a chilling effect on host availability. (see extortion) It is available on PG Austrailia, apparently the assigns of GWTW got told to take a hike there...
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