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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
why would that be true ? copyright is not based on date of publication (or place of publication, for that matter) in this case but on the author's lifetime, why should the original location of the publication enter into the equation ?
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Different countries have different copyright laws. If a book is published in a country, it is clearly subject to that country's copyright laws. An import gets into gray areas, subject to both local law and inter-country treaties...