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Copyright Board Canada

Ottawa, September 10, 2007

FILE: 2007-UO/TI-32

UNLOCATABLE COPYRIGHT OWNER

Commission du droit d’auteur Canada

Non-exclusive licence issued to Patricia E. Roy, Victoria, B.C., authorizing the reproduction of a cartoon by Ed McNally in a book

Pursuant to the provisions of subsection 77(1) of the Copyright Act, the Copyright Board grants a licence to Patricia E. Roy as follows:

(1) The licence authorizes the reproduction of the cartoon Give Me Your Skilled, Your Rich, Your Coddled Few..., by Ed McNally, published in the Montreal Star on October 18, 1966, in the book titled “Contradictory Impulses: Canada and Japan in the Twentieth Century” to be edited by Patricia E. Roy and Greg Donagny

No more than 1,500 copies of the cartoon shall be reproduced.

(2) The licence expires on December 31, 2008. The authorized reproduction must therefore be completed by that date.

(3) The licence is non-exclusive and valid only in Canada. For other countries, it is the law of that country that applies.

(4) The issuance of the licence does not release the licensee from the obligation to obtain permission for any other use not covered by this licence.

(5) The licensee will pay the $25 to the Canadian Artists' Representation Copyright Collective (CARCC) who will dispose of the amount as it sees fit for the general benefit of its members. CARCC undertakes, however, to reimburse any person who establishes before December 31, 2013, ownership of copyright in the above work.

(6) The coming into force of this licence is conditional on the filing with the Board of CARCC's undertaking to comply with the conditions set out in paragraph (5) above.

Claude Majeau Secretary General

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