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Old 03-10-2011, 03:35 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by bill_mchale View Post
I know the Supreme Court has disagreed in the past, but to my mind, in the United States, there should be no way to change the terms of copyright on an existing work. If published under terms X, the copyright should expire under X as well, even if other copyright laws have since replaced the original law.
This wouldn't have been an issue if the US had signed the Berne Convention to begin with, instead of waiting a hundred years to do so.
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