Thread: What do you think about circumventing geographic restrictions?
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Old 02-23-2015, 10:22 PM   #62
bgalbrecht
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
One issue you might well have, of course, is Mexico's horrendous "life + 100 years" copyright term, which is the longest in the world. That means that an awful lot of books will still be protected by copyright in Mexico which are now in the public domain for pretty much everyone else.
This worries me. I would not be at all surprised if the US content providers will start pushing for life+100 in another year or so because "Mexico required it to get TPP ratified", just as the US is trying to force Canada to go to life+70.
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