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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
THE US IS NOT A LIFE + 70 COUNTRY!!!!!
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As I wrote, it is oversimplified to say that the US is Life + 70. But Life + 70 is part of the current US formula, primarily for newer works:
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ15a.pdf
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The law automatically protects a work that is created and fixed in a tangible medium of expression on or after January 1, 1978, from the moment of its creation and gives it a term lasting for the author’s life plus an additional 70 years.
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
[THE US IS A FIXED COPYRIGHT, CONTINUALLY EXTENDED, COUNTRY!!!
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The failure of
Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) showed that copyright holders no longer control the US Congress. I'm not going to say it in all caps, but, in my opinion, copyright extension is no longer politically possible in the United States. So we are going to have a public domain day on January 1, 2019.
Is it politically possible for the United States to extend copyright in Canada, New Zealand, and Japan? Now, that, in the form of TPP ratification, seems more in the realm of possibility to me. But, even if TPP is ratified, I don't think the TPP minimum copyright term will be continually extended.
Of course, the copyright extension isn't the main reason the US Congress may vote down the TPP. The reasons for risk of non-ratification are opposition from the same coalition as opposed NAFTA, the
whole package of netizen objections, and the US election calendar.
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AND IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE ME TO SEE THIS SLIPPED INTO THE TPP FOR EVERYBODY...
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Everybody? As in China, and India, and Africa, and Europe? I guess you didn't mean that, but only the TPP nations. But, for them, did you see it in the Wikileaked final text?
P.S. Looking at several web pages on US copyright length, this one seems clearest to me:
https://copyright.cornell.edu/resour...blicdomain.cfm