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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Let me play with this a bit. A consortium of major copyright holders overthrow a government in Berzerkistan, and set up a puppet government there. (Think "The Dogs of War".) The puppet government passed a law saying that all copyrights are perpetual, and anybody can file a list of public domain books, ect, and regain copyright to those work. The consortium submits a list of every known title one second after the law passed.
Should the US uphold all the expired copyrights?
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No, of course not.
BUT if the US passes such a law, everyone else shall be bound by it - that's the way we play these days.