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Old 10-12-2015, 05:28 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
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.
I just don't see it an a big deal. Most of the world has had a life+70 copyright terms for a long time. This is simply bringing a few "holdouts" into line with that is the international standard copyright term.

It didn't seems to cause any particular issues in Australia when they switched from life+50 to life+70 some years ago.
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