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Originally Posted by murraypaul
I suspect it doesn't apply to US works because we have some sort of bilateral agreement in place, as Germany did in the example given.
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It might or might not. You have to know the specific agreements. The only one I've looked at is Canada. In Canada the NAFTA agreements with the US remove the rule of the shorter term from the general Berne implementation. Before NAFTA there was another treaty that did the same. The US is a rather late comer to Berne anyway. Prior to Berne the US was very stingy about copyright for non-US authors.
Greg weeks