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Originally Posted by crossi
As for the Berne and other conventions I see no reason while after signing such a convention as times change or experience shows it was a bad decision that a nation should be stuck with it forever. I really prefer that such conventions are never signed in the first place. I see no need for every country to try to force others to all be the same in areas when there is no pressing need like civil liberties, mutual defense and the like.
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You misunderstand the Berne Convention; it doesn't "force others to all be the same". What it does is to grant foreign copyright holders the same rights in each country as citizens of that country have. Eg, it grants US authors the same intellectual property rights in the UK that UK citizens have, the same rights in France that French citizens have, etc. It does not mean that those rights have to be same in every country (and, indeed, they aren't).