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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
I have always taken that to mean that other countries are bound to uphold the rules of the country where the work was initially published, at a minimum. Meaning that (assuming that Sweden and Japan signed this convention), you would first need to check if it's in the public domain in Japan.
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No, that's not what it means. It means that (for example) the works of a Japanese author in Sweden enjoy the same protection under Swedish law as the works of a Swedish author would do. However, given the fact that Japan has a "life + 50" copyright term rather than Sweden's "life + 70", anything that is in the public domain in Sweden will most assuredly also be so in Japan.