That may be true, but then US-created works won't enjoy the protection of the Convention elsewhere. I can't see how any creative industry is going to be keen on that.
In the UK, I'd be quite happy (for now) with some kind of harmonisation with the shortest terms of other English-speaking countries, so that downloading "public domain" ebooks from the internet is not such a minefield. Death+50 and everything before 1923.
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