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Old 06-10-2015, 10:00 AM   #37
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You misunderstand me. Of course these are copyrighted works, but copyright law is not the reason for georestrictions; such restrictions are simply down to the terms of distribution contracts. Changing copyright law would have absolutely no impact on such contracts.
Copyright law is the basis on which the contracts are made. Copyright-derived rights are the literally what the contracts concern. Hence how you can say changing copyright law would have no impact baffles me.

In any case, even if you disagree that this is related to copyright at all, the title of the thread is still appropriate because Mr Ansip did in fact frame the issue in terms of copyright.

Listen to him if you don't believe me.
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