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Originally Posted by sirmaru
A ruling by a Dutch judge does NOT change laws in other nations. There may be little copyright protection in Uzbekistan but lots of protections and penalties in the USA.
Each citizen of each nation, state or provence is governed by the laws of his jurisdiction, ONLY.
However, the internationality of the Internet does create lots of potential conflicts.
Plus, all of us are governed by author, publisher and retailer agreements implied or explicit. Violate Amazon's customer agreement, and your account could be closed.
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True, but I'd guess that it could set a precedent that other countries could follow in the future, and some aspects of copyright law are international even though different countries have different lengths of copyright protection after the author has died, so I could see other courts in different countries following or not following the Dutch judge's lead.