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Originally Posted by pwalker8
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.
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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.