Re: nice stockhausen excerpt

[Hans Aberg]

On 23 Feb 2010, at 03:08, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:

> Sorry, guys, but isn't this discussion drifting into the wrong  
> direction? The
> original post was about the GERMAN wikipedia example, so I don't see  
> where
> Canadian copyright law comes into play.

He is worrying about what happens when he views it in Canada.

> With German pages, one can argue that they are intended for a German- 
> speaking
> audience[*], so at most Austrian, Swiss and German copyright law is  
> relevant.
>
> ([*] That's what the copyright lawyer told us in the law course (for  
> law
> students!) on austrian copyright law, which I took last year...)

Strictly speaking it depends on were the server is, because for  
example the Austrian authorities can do nothing about it if it is in  
say the US. The situation is complicated if the server has is  
distributed, having automated mirrors in different countries, and it  
may difficult and impossible to know from where the stuff was  
downloaded.

They can go after Austrians, but in is not practical in police  
enforcing terms.

  Hans