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Originally Posted by HarryT
I respectfully disagree, Steve. A free trade agreement has to be based on parity between the parties involved, and parity in copyright length is an important part of that. I don't like longer copyright terms as an individual, that goes without saying, but when you're talking about international commerce, parity in such things is important.
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It's certainly a big deal to those who hold copyrights. I'm not so sure that it's really all that necessary though. Contrary to the posturing, only a handful of works actually is worth much for a significant period of time. This is more for the large corporations (cough, cough, Disney) who hold the rights to those works.