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Originally Posted by HarryT
But (and please correct me if I'm wrong), the Berne Convention requires signatories to have a copyright term which is at minimum, "Life+50 years", I believe. Hence setting a fixed 28-year term would not be permitted.
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You may interpret it that way, but the US congress is probably under no obligation to interpret the Bern Convention the way you do. The way it looks to me the USA will honor the 50 year rule of any participating country, and will enforce it if the copyright is registered in the USA, but they are under no obligation to grant 50 year copyrights in their own territory.
If you read further into the subject of the Bern Convention you will see that the USA and other countries have already made exceptions or dilutions to the treaty terms and will probably continue to do so in the future.