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Comments on: oh, for pete’s sake https://hughmcguire.net/2007/10/06/oh-for-petes-sake/ aging idealist. ai and education, open web, open publishing. Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:32:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.1 By: Hugh https://hughmcguire.net/2007/10/06/oh-for-petes-sake/comment-page-1/#comment-1473 Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:55:47 +0000 https://hughmcguire.net/2007/10/06/oh-for-petes-sake/#comment-1473 the Royal Canadian Mint, a crown corporation – meaning a “government-owned, but independent pseudo-business” owns the copyright on the designs of the coins. latest update was probably recent, but in any case, Canada (like England) has this weird thing called Crown Copyright, which has different rules than regular copyright.

the whole thing stinks, but there you go.

But the words “One Cent” … yes, that’s absurd.

]]> By: Kristin https://hughmcguire.net/2007/10/06/oh-for-petes-sake/comment-page-1/#comment-1472 Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:52:19 +0000 https://hughmcguire.net/2007/10/06/oh-for-petes-sake/#comment-1472 What?! The Canadian one cent image has to be in the public domain by now. Plus, “one cent” isn’t really a phrase you can copyright, right? I don’t know anything about Canadian law, but I’m assuming there’s some sort of clause that prevents you from copyrighting common phrases right? Silliness!

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