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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I think the absolute best we could hope for would be a return to the Berne minimums. And realistically, I see no no chance of that happening in the US or in Europe.
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Between the corporate lobbyists trying to protect the 1% of old copyright material that is popular enough to be immensely profitable, and actions like a
appointing a former music industry lawyer (who maintained personal format shifts like copying CDs to MP3s are not fair use) to the EU copyright policy director, copyright terms are never going to get shorter.