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Distributed Proofreaders Canada
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Distributed Proofreaders Canada (DP Canada) is a project dedicated to preserving Canadiana. Modeled after Distributed Proofreaders, DP Canada submits completed e-texts to Project Gutenberg Canada for preservation and electronic dissemination. History Distributed Proofreaders Canada was launched in December 2007. Although it was established by members of the original Distributed Proofreaders site, it is a separate entity. All of its projects are posted to Project Gutenberg Canada, which launched on Canada Day 2007. Notability In addition to preserving Canadiana, DP Canada is notable because it is the first major effort to take advantage of Canada's copyright laws which may allow more works to be preserved. Unlike copyright law in many other countries, Canada has a "life plus 50" copyright term. This means that works by authors who died more than fifty years ago may be preserved in Canada, whereas in other parts of the world those works may not be distributed because they are still copyright. Notable authors whose works may be preserved in Canada but not other parts of the world include A. A. Milne, Walter de la Mare, Sheila Kaye-Smith and Amy Carmichael. See Also
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