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Originally Posted by HarryT
Nope. Nowhere close to the longest. The US currently has a standard "life+70" copyright term, compared to, for example, Mexico, which has life+100 years.
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HarryT, this depends upon your definition of nowhere close to longest. The US keep extending existing copyrights, including those that would have fallen into the public domain in almost every other country. So a work released in 1923 in the US may well be in copyright until 2018, even if the author died in the same year. In Mexico it would go PD in 2024. I don't consider 6 years to be "nowhere near close to the longest".
Of course, your mileage probably differs.