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Originally Posted by HarryT
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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Of course, it didn't bring down the government, or anything like that, but:
http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/wp-...es_feb2004.pdf
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"The outcome is bad for libraries," said Colette Ormonde, copyright adviser for the Australian Library and Information Association. "It is bad for students. It is bad for researchers. It is bad for all information users." . . .
Project Gutenberg Australia, an online repository of public domain works, was likely to be among the first to suffer.
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Australian Trade Minister Mark Vaile, in my last link, makes clear this was something forced on Australia, by the United States, in order to get other things it wanted more. I fail to see how Americans, or Australians benefited. Are Americans now buying more Australian eBooks (written by authors who died between 1956 and 1964, the years affected to date), or visa versa?