Thread: Trans-Pacific Partnership to Increase Copyright Term in Six Nations
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Old 10-12-2015, 07:28 AM   #23
John F
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
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.
Could you provide the numbers (for what I bolded)? Looking at this site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...yright_lengths, I quick/rough count came up with:

Life +50: 120
Life +70: 70
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