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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Basically, some folks sound as if they think the US is wrong when it asks other countries to protect US IP rights and are *also* wrong when they seek to protect other countries' IP within the US.
Seems to me it's simple reciprocity: somebody that believes IP rights need to be respected and living up to it. Next time the US seeks protection for US IP rights in the international arena, they can at least claim to be holding up their end of the treaties, unlike some of the countries benefitting from this decision.
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Reciprocity is the whole cornerstone of the Berne convention. Other countries' works get the same copyright protection in your country as works published in your country do. Note that that's not to say that they get the same protection that they do in their country of publication, though.