Re: ICRAVETV

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On 25 Jan 00,  TC Cheever wrote:

> Should be interesting. Maybe one of the attorneys on list could venture a
> guess to this: what authority, if any, would a decision in a US Federal
> court carry against a Canadian corporation?

A Canadian corporation can certainly be sued in the U.S., if it does 
business here.  Whether a judgment against it would be honored in Canada 
depends on Canadian law, and I don't know the answer to that, but a 
judgment against a Canadian corporation can be enforced against its assets 
in the United States.

The question is whether they are violating US copyright law by putting up 
a Website in Canada which complies with Canadian law.  On the other hand, 
I notice that it has a U.S. Dot-Com address, rather than a Canadian Dot-CA 
address.  That may be significant.  Applying traditional law to the 
Internet is still a new area, and it develops as cases arise and are 
decided.

Then again, I've always wondered how a U.S. court could exercise 
jurisdiction over Manuel Noriega for acts which he committed in Panama.


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