Originally Posted by
Manfred M
John - I think you will find that copyright laws are not dissimilar in most countries whose legal code is based on English "common law". The "rights holders" are probably better looked after in the USA and so far as I understand it, Canada has very broad exemptions for "educational purposes". . . . Regardless, no one contacted me for permission to use the image and I'm not that hard to find.. . . Someone along the production chain allowed this to happen. . . . Anything involving what we loosely term as "intellectual property", whether that be patents, copyright, integrated circuit architecture or industrial designs (I believe these are called design patents in the USA) has to be considered by the team doing the creative work. So far as I understand it, ignorance of the law is no excuse.