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Originally Posted by HarryT
As has been repeatedly said, this is about bringing the US into compliance with the basic principle of the Berne Convention: that works published in other countries get same same protection in the US as do works published in the US. Does anyone think that this is an unfair principle?
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No, just an impossible one. The large corporations woh own/control valuable I.P. will never let the US truly follow Berne because they will lose property to the public domain.
If you want to get the same protection, you should be following the guideline upon such protection is based on. It's both, not either/or.
I'd have no beef with the ruling if, (and I repeat
IF) the US was truly following the text of Berne in defining it copyrights. It doesn't, and it won't!