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Comment 13 for bug 183052

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kaplanmyrth (andy-kaplan-myrth) wrote : Re: [Bug 183052] Re: Crown Copyright in ca.py

Whatever works -- Just don't replace existing publisher info with new
"crown" as publisher. In Canada at least, anything published by the
Federal Queen's Printer or any province's Queen's Printer is under Crown
Copyright, but you don't want to lose the record of which jurisdiction
published it.

David Strauss wrote:
> Does OL have separate publisher records? The best way to add crown
> copyright to the system is to add a "crown" field to publisher records.
> We can load the related publisher records when analyzing the copyright
> status of a work. It would be badly denormalized to put the publisher
> name and the crown publisher status on the actual work.
>

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Andy Kaplan-Myrth, M.A., LL.B.
Barrister & Solicitor
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